You'd think that having gotten rid of 2 out of 3 children and a husband for most of the week I would have gotten a lot accomplished. But just as with the February half-term, I managed to fill the vacuum of their absence with stuff and inanities, instead of with real tasks and accomplishments.
On Tuesday, I spent the entire day while Adia was a school reading what I would consider to be a "chick-lit" novel, followed by finishing off the evening with another novel that Stefanie had left behind.
Getting Rid of Matthew is one of those books that are great to read on the beach, but shouldn't be used as an excuse to while away the day at the kitchen table, just getting up to make more coffee. I'd have felt more worthy if it had been War and Peace. I can't tell you why I picked up the other book, Angel when I brought Adriana home from school, but I was on a roll and thought that I should finish it because it had interested me enough to buy for Stefanie in the first place.
Wednesday, Adriana and I were in the process of getting ready for school when she pointed out that neither Stefanie or Larysa had to go to school, why did she?
Well, there was no arguing with that, so Adriana took the day off. (or snow day, as Orest put it) We took the dog for a walk, did some recycling (i.e. she came with me to the depot), returned a pair of shoes I'd bought for her that were too small and spent a few hours at Borders and Starbucks looking at and buying books. We mooched around the house the rest of the afternoon, but by 6pm she was driving me insane and I sort of wished I hadn't given in and sent her to school instead. Thankfully she was in bed early that night and I could relax with an episode of Boston Legal (I love singing along to its theme song- so did Jerry Espensen that night).
So after 2 days of doing virtually nothing, I followed it up with tennis on Thursday and Friday morning and a hair appointment on Friday afternoon, and ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom....there's the week gone.
I've got one week before I leave for Canada, so here's me knuckling down!
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