Well today I’m actually sick, sore throat, stuffed up nose, etc, and tired (it’s 4am). Our 7 year old (with his Mom’s blessing) usually starts the night out by “snuggling” with us and then 9 times out of 10, ends up sleeping the entire night with us. With him now wearing 12 year old jeans, he’s getting pretty tall and those legs and arms tend to uncontrollably swing around all night long, this is why I’m tired. Other than that, I feel pretty good.
Mom works again today (day 3 of 5 in a row) and I have a meeting/presentation from 8:30 until 9am. With Mom having to be at work at 9am (she leaves at 8:45), we didn’t realize until last night that we had no plan for the kids! We needed someone to watch them from 8:45 till 9:30 but can’t find anyone. So I’m going to need to wake them up at 6:30 and load us all into the car at 7:30 to make my 8:30 meeting. We forgot today is the first of another 4 day weekend for the boys. I don’t remember having so many days off when I was a kid. Anyhow, it looks like the kids will have to go with me and sit quietly (like that’ll happen) outside a conference room for 30 minutes while I am giving my speech. Wish me luck.
The morning paper isn’t here yet and it’s once again chilly outside. There is a full moon! There’s now 10 days left in the month of February, hard to believe but Spring is fast approaching. Next week I have a day trip to San Francisco and the following week I’m in D.C. for a night and Phoenix for another later in the week. We’re holding our breath waiting for Mom’s schedule knowing we’re going to have to somehow get some help with the boys.
On another note, has anyone noticed how the price of food keeps going up! Thank God we get our discount at Whole Foods. It almost makes prices the same as they were a year and a half ago. Did you see all the Democratic Senators in Wisconsin leave the state so they couldn’t be found by the Police and have to show up to work and do their job by voting on proposed legislation. I’m not taking sides here but do know that acting like little children and running away and refusing to sit down and talk things through is not going to help. It doesn’t matter if your a Democratic or Republican, you can’t just refuse to go to work and do your job because you don’t like your job, can you? (If so, I could use some time off!) Imagine if one of us did this, we probably wouldn’t be employed very long. It seems everyone in the Country knows we’re broke and wants changes until those changes actually affect them. Everyone is going to need to sacrifice to get things turned around. Trust me, you cannot spend more than you make and hope to have your house in order, it’s just not sustainable. If you do (as our government and society in general has) you’re going to need to cut back drastically and spend a whole lot less then you make for a long time. With 20-30% interest rates, (which should be illegal!), it takes forever just to try to get back to even. How can credit card companies get away with charging 20-30% interest rates when all you can earn in a bank is about 3% on your savings account?????
Oh well, sorry for the drift into politics and public policy, that’s what happens when you’re sick and tired. Hope everyone has a great weekend and stays healthy.
God bless,
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