Sleepy Thursday

I woke up this morning feeling a lot like the adorable bear in this video seems to feel. I love how he falls asleep, then opens his eyes and looks around as if to see if anyone noticed. ☺ That's the kind of morning I'm having, too.



What about you? How's your Thursday going?

Oh, my aching legs!

This is the first time I've had a chance to sit down since I read and commented on blogs this morning. (I'm caught up. Yay!)

Why is it that holidays are the opposite of relaxing? There's always so much to do, and somehow I always manage to leave most of it for the last minute. Today I've been to the grocery store for more Easter basket stuff (twice), washed everyone's dressy church clothes and found all the accessories (shoes, tights, ties, barrettes...), prepped tomorrow's French toast (it stays in the fridge all night and bakes for an hour in the morning), filled baskets and plastic eggs, and double-checked that I have everything I need for the Easter dinner I'm cooking tomorrow evening. And that's just the holiday stuff! Those everyday chores--dishes, laundry, cooking meals, cleaning--didn't go away, as much as I wish they had. I'm unbelievably tired and so glad to be able to sit down right now. After I post this, I'm taking my tired legs to the bathtub, and I think I'll bring along a glass of wine and a book. It's "me" time now!

Happy Easter!

On sleepiness and apes

I had an idea for my post today, but I'm getting to my blog so late tonight that I'm too tired to think, much less write intelligently. I decided to post a bit of writing I did in March, another one of my 100 words exercises. I feel like I'm cheating on my blog by posting something I've already written, but here it is:

We took our kids to the zoo yesterday. It was beautiful, sunny and warm, and the kids were thrilled to be out after having been cooped up indoors for so long. I didn't want to go, but I'm glad I did; being there provided another opportunity to learn to see life through a child's eyes. When I see an ape, I might smile, but when my kids see it, they exclaim and giggle; their voices rise in excitement, their awe genuine, and their emotion doesn't embarrass them. They teach me every day about the purest way of seeing this world.

Just sleepwalking through...

I wanted to write a post tonight--a meaningful post, not one like this--but the time change has me beat. I probably shouldn't have written anything at all, but I've been posting here every day since I began this blog, so missing a night just because I'm tired would be sad. So...this is my post. I hope to be more interesting--and more awake!--tomorrow.

At a loss...

for words, that is.

It's late, nearly midnight, and this is the first chance I've had to sit down and write this post. It's been a long day, yet I don't really have that much to share. I spent the morning at storytime with the kids, the evening grocery shopping with the family, and the afternoon in front of the upstairs computer, trying (and succeeding, thankfully) to remove a virus. Everything else got away from me, and it looks like the weekend--with all the preparations I have to do for my son's birthday on Monday--will also be busy. It'll be fun, but thinking about it makes me tired. I'd better rest up...