It rained all morning, we played in the rain anyway because ______.

a. we can
b. we felt too dry
c. it was an easy way to wash their coats

We made plans to beat the rainy day blahs and meet up with some friends after _______.

a. hell froze over
b. I made a curried chick pea sandwich on toasted Ezekiel bread with a zucchini and spinach salad on the side for lunch
c. they completed an obstacle course

We ran errands with Sharon and her crew. We chased children around at the mall and stopped at the Cookie Nook to feed the kids ________.

a. sugarless cookies
b. sugarfilled cookies
c. Benadryl

I made Ava give me _______ bite(s) of her cookie.

a. one
b. two
c. one hundred

Sharon had never experienced the joy and wonder that is a Larabar, so I _______.

a. said, “Sucks to be you.”
b. split it with her
c. told her they tasted like dried air and pretended to spit it out into the garbage can while in truth I was really swallowing it

Zak is out of town for the next couple of days and since Sharon’s hubby often works late, they stayed to play and have dinner with us too. I cooked and Sharon counted how many times we heard the word “Mommy”.

For dinner I made us kabocha fries and _____ burgers.

a. meat
b. black bean
c. stopped at a fast food restaurant for

Ava does _____ like cookies.

a. not
b. in fact
c. sort of smell

We passed out Newman O’s to clawing, screeching, excited children for the second time that day. Sharon and I were then forced to ______.

a. surrender the rest of the package to alien invaders
b. try them too
c. take a bite and then a picture and put them back in the package

As soon as the kids are in bed and I’m going to _______.

a. watch a chick flick
b. thank the stars above it’s finally quiet
c. read blogs
d. make some sort of oat concoction for breakfast in the morning
e. all of the above

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A totally soggy morning.

How convenient I’d planned for today to be a rest day.

Even the cats are taking it easy. Minus a little neck biting.

Maxine was up early. Only to fall back to sleep.

A leisurely breakfast cookie for me.

And coffee.

Time to lace up my shoes and get to work around this house. I can’t help but be reminded of my new favorite quote as I dig down to find the motivation to get moving:

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
–Phyllis Diller

Holy crap ain’t that the truth.

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