Leaving tomorrow.....

My sister's wedding is next weekend! I spent all day today finishing up homework so I don't have much to do next week...and now tonight (it is already 8pm...my prime hours start at 10 pm!). I have made lists...several of them actually. I am sooooo excited for the next week! I am hoping to spend some quality time with my family, maybe see a couple of friends in O-town, relax at the lake, and laugh. The past couple of weeks have been super stressful...like super duper stressful. I have learned a lot though....some of those things include:

1. True friends are amazing!
2. Phone calls from your niece can turn tears into laughter in about 2 seconds.
3. I go to school with some smart people. REAL SMART PEOPLE.
4. Finding 28" shorts for Mason to wear to a wedding is extremely hard to do....in fact in all of St. Cloud there are only two pair (ok..make that one pair after today).
5. Laundry does not do itself, no matter how long I wait.
6. Facebook is a waste of time.
7. Ice cream can be a main dish the night before Mom's paper is due.
8. and most important...nothing is more important than spending time with my kiddos. Ohhh, how I love their stories.

Update!!

Here is the list I posted way back when.....not too shabby...and there is about a month of summer vacation left :).

1. Get all pictures into one spot in my house. No not organizing at this point yet, just all into one spot. I am going to pick for that spot to be in the makeshift office we have in our basement.
2. Clean out the laundry room. It really is a terrible job, isn't it?
3. Organize Larkin's drawers. Ugh.
4. Get a pedicure! (Yay!)
5. Clean out the garage stuff that has been there since we moved in. Part of me doesn't even want to open the bags/boxes/totes and just throw, but part of me doesn't either!
6. Match up the DVDs with their cases.
7. Take all my old college text books to Goodwill. I haven't looked at them since I graduated. Why have they moved four times with me?? Plus, we are at the nine year mark. Pretty sure they are outdated.

Can duct tape fix everything?

It didn't work to get my cell phone yesterday, but fortunately other things did work! Here is the list of items it took to get the phone:
1. A math teacher
2. A skinny-armed 14 year old
3. A supervisor (that would be me)
4. A mirror from some Clinique make-up
5. A ruler
6. About 10 swear words.

and last but not least.......
7. A long-handled-plastic-black Kitchen Aid serving spoon.

THANK YOU BECCA AND MASON FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, What a Night!

As I sit here and write this, my cell phone alarm is going off somewhere in the house. And I can't do anything about it. Why, you ask? Well, that is the end to a veeerrrrryyyyyy long night. 4 crabby kids + 2 crabby parents = not good. Anyway we ended up playing musical beds (and this night is proof why I should never give up my bed....).

Mason wants to sleep in the basement and so of course Bennett does, too. Larkin decides she will sleep in her room and Alex and Jerry snuggle up in our bed to watch "Ice Road Truckers." Where am I going to sleep? Chair? Mason's bed? Bennett's bed? We know Alex's bed is out of the question....it is up much too high for me. I decide to sleep in Mason's bed.

Well, somewhere between 10:45 and 6:00 many events happened......including grinding of teeth, pushing, shoving, yelling, kicking, and turning from one end of the bed to the other. Larkin and Bennett both decided they needed to sleep with me in Mason's bed. I can handle all of that until...

6am--cell phone alarm goes off. It isn't next to the bed where I had put it. I get my glasses on and look under the bed. Nope not there? I am thinking where in the ^$$&*# could this damn thing be?!?!? Yes, I survey the scene and realize that it down the hot-air return somewhere between the boys' bedroom wall and the furnace.

It is no 6:54am. You probably don't want to call, text, or email cause there is NO WAY I am getting that phone. I thought maybe writing about this on my blog would help the creative juices flow and I would come up with a way to fetch it out of there.

Not so much. No creativity here today. So, really I have now wasted 56 minutes of Action Research writing. Awesome.