Whew!

Normally I wake up every weekday morning around 5:15 to workout. I come home around 6:30 to wake everyone for the day and get them off to school. This morning was a little different. I guess I was so tired for the Christmas Party this weekend and the kids were tired from a weekend at Mimi and Papa's house. Today I shut off my alarm without waking up and didn't open my eyes until 7:30 on the nose. I flew out of bed and said to Tom, "We slept in! This is usually when we leave the house!" I ran to Drew's room, where he was still passed out, and woke him. Tom was downstairs waking Lily before I knew it. We were in the car backing out of the driveway at 7:39 and I pulled up the the school at 7:46. The kids ate a few more bites of breakfast, gave me a quick kiss and were in the school by 7:49...one minute before the final bell rang. Seriously, that has to be some sort of record. It should also be noted that everyone but me did this in a calm and efficient manner. I was a little frazzled, but Tom was calmly reminding me to calm down...which always helps to calm a person like me. ha ha ha.

Today is Tom's first day of vacation from work. When I arrived home from dropping the kids off we picked up every room in the house to prepare for the cleaning crew to clean our house (still the greatest gift of my life). So we ran around and quickly pre-cleaned the house. (It is required with how messy our house gets!) I grabbed a shower, made my grocery list and we were back out the door by 9:30. We then went and bought some Secret Santa gifts for various gift exchanges, dropped off a prescription,  bought Tom some new shoes, went out to lunch, did our weekly grocery shopping, and picked up the dry cleaning. It was an extremely busy morning. I'm a little nervous about the rest of Tom's vacation days. I may not make it until the end! After all of that, Tom asked me when we got home what was next on our list of chores. I told him, if he wasn't here pestering me, I would probably just sit down and finish my list for Christmas present shopping....but since he is here being so productive I guess I better come up with some more chores for him to do - while I sit down and take a deep breath.