Manic on Monday

Well, I survived Spring Break number one (my son, Sam's spring break from Montessori school) and I have one week with my three older children in school before Spring break number two (public school vacation for my two daughters)!!!! What's a mother of four to do with that time? Good question. I know the obvious answers... Drive. Cook. Clean. What I really need to do is Read. Run. Write. Reading being priority, because one of my book clubs is meeting tomorrow, April Fool's Day, and I will look like an April Fool if I can not participate in the discussion..... Of course I had ample time over the weekend to read the book, but instead I chose to slip into my OCD behavior and play Sudoku for hours in the evening, while my husband had a meltdown over a cable glitch that made it impossible for him to see the end of the latest episode of John Adams on HBO. Of course, I probably didn't help matters any by reminding him that "it was not the end of the world, and that the epsiode would be available on HBO On Demand by Monday...." But he wanted it then!!!! And I question my kids demanding behavior????

Okay, so today, I will not play Sudoku, I will read a "A Thousand Days in Venice" and will run and attempt to write. Wait, I am writing now, does that count? I better get going, because I have three kids to pick up from three different schools, a communion class, a confirmation class and dinner and homework and whatever else needs to be accomplished this evening and I have less than 30 hours to not look like an April Fool. Oh, shoot, "The Riches" is on tonight too and I still haven't watched the first two episodes of the season which are on my computer waiting to be viewed and our cable problem better be fixed or I will be the one crying about not having an episode NOW! READ. RUN. WRITE. No, I better RUN. READ. WRITE. Oh, I will do the best I can!