If she had the proper words to say,

I believe I'll go take a bubble bath now, thanks.

Sooooo tired.

I'd really like to shave my legs, but I don't think I'm going to make it too much longer tonight. How sad is that? It's only just after 8:30pm!

I stayed up late the past two nights, and I'm dog-tired tonight because of it. In my defense, I planned to go to bed early last night, but I had unexpected company - six people that needed a bed/pallet/floor to sleep on, and I was up really late because of it. But I'm glad I could help out.

And I wanted a nap this afternoon so badly, but Jack asked ever-so-sweetly if I would help him build his new LEGO pirate ship (The Black Pearl), and since I spent all yesterday afternoon cleaning out and decluttering his room to make a space for said ship, it made sense to actually open the box today. That took almost two hours, but now he has two gigantic pirate ships, as well as the Isla Cruces playset on his train table. And then he and A.J. played quietly for an hour or so in his room while I tossed in some laundry and tatted a bit.

Speaking of tatting (and aren't I always?), I've been busting my tail completing pieces. I finished my mom's birthday present, plus my sister's, and I just finished up my sister-in-law's piece tonight during swim lessons. I need to take pictures of all of them. I finally wrote out a "to tat for" list, as the increasing number of requested projects was beginning to spin in my little brain. I split one skein or floss two nights ago (none of you showed up to help, by the way), and that took me very close to two hours. I've got two more skeins to split, and then I'll be using those three split skeins to make six certain projects.

And I'm dying to make another pair of baby booties. Seriously, now that the booties are completed, given away, loved and worn by the baby, I just want to make oodles and oodles more of them! Some people have baby fever or baby lust. I have baby bootie fever.

I've been folding Moravian stars in my "free" time after dinner and such at night, and I even took the strips of paper with me to swim lessons last week one night. I suppose it's clear that I can't just SIT there at swim lessons, isn't it? I really can't. I must be doing *something* all the time.

Me = Spazzy.

I'm going grocery shopping in the morning tomorrow after I drop the boys off at school. I had originally planned to go today, but there wasn't quite enough time after my guests left this morning. We had everything we needed for dinner tonight anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. Besides, when I go tomorrow, I'll be well-rested.

Mmmmmmm. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Jack is running his own bath. A.J. is already in the shower, which he started as well. My children can now fully bathe themselves.

*pops a Diet Coke and relaxes back*

In the mornings, there is just not quite enough time between dropping A.J. off for school and dropping Jack off for school 45 minutes later for me to really get much done. If I take a shower, there's not time for me to do my hair by the time I dry off, moisturize, powder (I'm talking baby powder here, by the way) and dress myself. At least, not if I also want to eat my bowl of cereal beforehand. And I typically need that cereal quick, as my tummy is rumbling pretty fierce already when the alarm goes off.

So instead I'm usually the frumpy mom who takes her kids to school and preschool in half-jammies and Philip's old sandals. And then I come home and get ready for the day at a nice, leisurely pace. :-)

Can I type with very wet nail polish? Well, I'm trying. It will be interesting to note in the morning if there are distinguishable red - excuse me, 'Chocolate Mousse' - marks on the keyboard letters.

I just took a long bath. Yes, I started at just after 1am, and it was a loooong bath. I washed, shaved my legs, took polish off my fingernails and trimmed (a few things, that is). I used lukewarm water, as I was already hot when I decided to take a bath. It's very odd, actually - I've been hot for about two days now.

Philip, bless him, had the intelligence not to ask me why I was beginning a bath at such a late hour. He didn't even knock on the door, as per his usual, or come in to chat. Again, his common sense undoubtably played a large role in his staying away from the bathroom. Had he proposed a ridiculous question, "Why are you taking a bath now?" I couldn't have provided him with a decent answer ("I don't know why! I just wanted to, okay?"), and I more than likely would have bitten his head off in my answer to his query.

So it's best that he stayed away, and that he kept his head about him. Literally.

I believe it's time for my second coat now, and then I'm off to bed.

I'm off to take a bath, thanks. It will only be my second one in this new house, and I think I deserve a nice, long soak. And among other wonderful things, Annie gave me an entire matching set of bath goodies in my favorite Bath & Body Works scent: Mango Mandarin.

Nevermind that I need to shave my legs, and I prefer to do it in the bath rather than standing up. ;-)

Ummm... I'm gonna go take my shower now, in the event that the power decides to go out later.

*runs*

It's time to bathe again.

*sigh*

Really, I hate bathing. Honestly, if there was someone here to physically PUSH me into the shower, I'd be more than happy to let them share the time with me.

This 'sweating-every-day-in-the-garden-and-taking-a-shower-every-night' thing has GOT to stop. I'm getting far too clean lately, and I don't like it. I prefer to be dirty. My skin is so soft and clean that, and I can't SMELL myself coming around anymore. Used to be that I'd smell myself long before I arrived, but at least I didn't scare myself by popping up unexpectedly then.

Stupid cleanliness.

*sigh*

But it must be done, so off I trudge to the shower.

Whew! I finally get to sit down today! Except, no- wait. I need to go pee now.

*toilet break*

For a gal who hates bathing, it's amazing even to myself that I've now had three showers in the last 24 hours. Three! And I've needed every one of them, too!

I worked on the garden some more yesterday evening (not that it's anything new, really - I'm out there every single night doing something). I fixed the mulch around the corn that needed fixing. The massive thunderstorm we had Tuesday night had managed to pull the tarp out from underneath the mulch, and it had then flipped some mulch over into the corn rows. I was shocked that it was THAT strong! I also dug rows and planted the lima beans - a new crop for this year's garden. However, the seeds for those are much bigger than I'd anticipated, and I ran out just halfway through my five rows, so I had to stop for the evening. The boys were still playing happily, so I busied myself with straightening the mulch around the perimeter marigolds - it had also been moved around quite a bit from the storm. I only did about two dozen of them before it was too dark to see outside any longer, and we all came in.

In the past few weeks of gardening and being outside, I've changed up our meal routine a bit. Instead of making a large meal for dinner, I've been making it during lunchtime. By doing this, I'm inside at noon (a time when we shouldn't really be outside in the sun's rays anyway), and it gives the house plenty of time to cool down if I've used the oven or stove. Then in the evening, we eat the leftovers, and we only come in to eat once we're hungry or it's too dark to play. It's working well for us. :-)

The Supreme Box 'o Fun that we'd been waiting on all day yesterday was finally delivered around 6:15pm last night - too late in the day to actually play with what was inside. Still, the boys and I ooooh'ed and aaaah'ed over the contents and spread them out all over the living room floor. Later on, we packed it all up and wished that the next day would come quickly! They went to bed dreaming of their new toy, and I hopped in the shower to wash off the grime and sweat from the day.

This morning I'd set my alarm early again (okay - 8:15am *is* early for me, especially when neither of the boys have school and nothing else is happening), gave Jack some breakfast (A.J. had fixed himself waffles earlier - he loves doing that in the toaster each morning now), dressed, and by 8:30am, we were outside. I dug the rows and seeded the radishes, and then I mulched around them and the lima beans. By the time I finished with that, it was getting pretty warm out already, and I decided not to start digging the carrot rows. We went to Menard's to buy more lima bean seeds (which A.J. was able to find faster than myself) and came back home. The boys played some more while I finished planting the bean seeds in the rows I'd not been able to complete last night, and then we all came inside. I quickly showered again, and then I woke up Philip for work.

We dropped off Philip at Runza, and then we headed to the BX to buy life-jackets for this weekend. We've been planning for weeks to go to the lake at our friends' house, but there will be so many children this time that I decided the boys should just have their own life-jackets - allowing other children the chance to use the extras there. The BX only had infant sizes, so we ended up buying them at Wal*Mart instead, and I also bought Jack a new pair of sandals (his were *just* starting to look too small to me).

We came home for about a half hour, and I talked to Philip's parents during that time. We get mail for his dad all the time, and today I jokingly called him to ask if it was alright if I opened it. ;-) We picked up Philip from Runza, and then came home again. Philip set out to quickly mow one section of the lawn, and I set to work on more marigolds while he was doing that. The boys were giddy with anticipation, waiting for the lawn to be done so that we could set up their new toy.

And then it was TIME - time for the grand, new toy! The next four hours or so passed in a watery blur (and will have their own post soon). :-D

Afterwards, I shuffled the boys into the tub. The yard was by then finished, and I cleaned up the toys inside our little alcove by the grill while Philip talked to his parents. We moved the swing back under the alcove as well (we'd been sitting in it for hours earlier). Philip and I took a quick shower before grilling chicken for a late dinner tonight. Just after eating, he left to see the new X-Men movie tonight with some friends. In the meantime, I've done three loads of laundry, loaded the dishwasher and *tried* to catch up on my friends' list. ;-)

I guess that's it for this post, though I'm not yet done with today...