Later that same day....

Well, folks, we made it out of the house today.
You know how I thought we'd get out the door
right after the 9:30 feeding.
Didn't happen.
We got out the door about an hour
after the 12:30 feeding.
But we got out the door.
That's the main point.

And I was proud of us for scooting about town,
getting our little errands done in a timely fashion.
We rolled into the garage about 3:20
and Baby J was due to eat at 3:30.
So we did good.

While we didn't get into the real pencil and paper
school work today, we didn't spend the day eating
bon bons and watching soap operas either. I feel like I have
been so busy all day. I have done 138 loads of laundry
and some of them are actually folded and put away.
And the downstairs has been somewhat picked up.
The kitchen has been cleaned.
I'm still putting away a bit of clutter from Christmas.
Like the Christmas cookie jar---it didn't quite get put
away today, but I moved it from it's cozy corner to the
island so that I will be forced to deal with it.

I moved it from its cozy corner
to make room for the new
coffee maker I bought today.
I bought a cheap-o coffee maker
at Walmart today. I already
have a coffee maker
(two actually---had both
since we got married.
One is big and I only break
it out to make coffee for a
herd of people. The other one
is very small and it
has had a stroke and probably
needs to be put in a home for old coffee makers.
It's unreliable and causes my father-in-law much grief
when he is here---he'll be happy to see the new one),
but I wanted one that I could program. This one
is supposed to be able to do that. I have been thinking
that I may switch my morning caffeine from soda to
coffee....and how alluring it would be to actually
wake up and smell the coffee. So we will see how
that goes. Now if I become some coffee maniac
who can't go a few hours without a coffee fix,
you'll be able to trace it back to this very day.