Slacking
I’ve been really busy this week – busy slacking, that is. I had great plans, of course. I always do. I was going to clean up the Christmas explosion of toys, get the rest of the Cub Scout popcorn out of here, review our upcoming school year, and put all the wrapping paper away.
Yeah. So, none of that happened.
Instead I stayed up way too late every night with Philip, watching Monarch of the Glen or playing Lego Indiana Jones. Or both. But not at the same time. That resulted in me sleeping way too late every morning and it being around noon before I really got going. And then you know, the children needed my help putting together their new Lego sets.
Oh, and we also took 5 children to Port Discovery (again!!) last weekend, then braved the 50 MPH winds to go to Mount Vernon on New Year’s Eve. I had forgotten that they open the normallly closed attic during Christmastime and I wanted to see it. Now we’ve seen the whole mansion from attic to basement. The attic has a phenominal view and a really cool copula and the room that Martha Washington moved into after George’s death. I like Martha Washington. She was short and she was married to an Army officer. I bet she would have written a very interesting blog.
Alas, duty calls. Unlike Martha, all the actual household duties fall to me so my time as slacker mom is over. It was fun while it lasted.
I’m not looking forward to this end of the holidays. Having dh around and staying– up late every night. We really enjoy Monarch of the Glen — got all the episodes and been going through them. That was after we went through Hamish Macbeth and Bally Kissangel. Of course we have objections, but it’s nice to plug in an episode and watch together.
We revisited Mount Vernon a few weeks ago. Just love that place! Did you see the camel, too? Now I’ll have to be on the lookout for the secret basement tour, I have not done that! Thanks for the heads up.