On the Upside...

Well, first on the downside... I finally talked Kai into riding his bike to school today so I could take a break from driving him when a neighbor called and asked me to take her girls. (I love to help so I agreed!) But then Keala wanted pancakes for breakfast this morning instead of an easy bowl of cereal... which resulted in me breaking my diet to join her with gobs of cool whip and blueberry syrup (our favorite pancake tradition). So I reconciled the extra calories by jumping on the treadmill but my music genre (through Pandora.com) kept throwing in slow songs so my rythm kept getting thrown off. Then in the middle of it all, Brent's father in law (G'pa Stig) was re-routing our dryer vent and knicked the hot water pipe and had to shut off all the water. After that, my rythm was gone and I tanked my workout. After throwing myself on the couch in exasperation, I slowly realize ('slowly' because thats the speed at which I think) that I can't jump in the shower! Gross!

On the upside... our dryer should work wonderfully now (instead of taking 3 hours to dry a load), and eventually, sometime today I will get the salt encrusted texture washed off my skin and feel like a brand new person.... eventually.

On the upside, at least I don't have to fix the broken pipe! But I feel bad for G'pa Stig who added as he walked out the door and points to the dog and says in his Swedish accent, "did you know that thing can jump OVER the fence!" I just nodded my head and laughed. Yep she does it every day. Most days I don't care, cuz usually one of the 4 year old twins brings her back to my house or she just scratches on our door to come back in.

On the upside... the twin usually staysto play with Keala which she loves (cuz mom is boring). Then his twin shows up and they both stay to play. But now that their older brother is 'off track' he has been staying to play too! Then when Kai gets home from school he brings a friend over too. Yesterday I had 6 kids running through my house and before long I yelled at them all to go home. This is the usual day of chaos at my house. I don't know why I bother mentioning it.

On the upside... I got to the yelling point yesterday right about the time Brent got home from work. So after I sent the 'friends' home and ground my kids until their room is clean, at least I have 'muscle' to back me up! And my wonderful husband wrestles the kids while I catch my breath. See, life can have its 'up-sides'.