In the Middle of Our Street

(this was written yesterday)

Last night Aidan woke up around midnight and was fussing and pulling on his diaper and saying ow. It seemed dry but I figured I'd changed it anyway and then in a solitary lucid moment I grabbed my booklight to take a look and found his legs were covered in hives. No one knows why, but we had the cats bathed and shaved on Thursday and I have a feeling that had something to do with it. I know there are a million seasonal allergens out there right now but I'm still pretty convinced it was this weird powder they put on the cats, which makes me feel itchy just thinking about it. I'm going to go look at pictures of when Brendan broke out in hives once and see if there are pictures of shaved cats from right around that time too. I really should have gotten a master's in detectivery. Anyway cat baths were added to the day today, and I really love extra stuff to do on Crazy Tuesdays (more on that later.) (oh and I just remembered Liam got a bunch of dirt in his hair from working in the garden and he needed a bath but failed to get one. shoot!)


Also, the tv installers called to say they would come between 7:30 and 8:30. Liam and Brendan leave for school at 8 so of course they came at 7:50. And 12 seconds before the rang the doorbell Liam spilled milk all over the floor that leads to the room the TV is going into. Anyway, Liam and Brendan got to walk to school just with each other as I watched from the the porch. Exciting! Equally exciting was when Liam saw the wii box and exclaimed "Mom! This tv plays movies about the Mario Brothers!" We decided to try and downplay the wii instead of making it a big deal as a present or something, but Liam was excited to play an inaugural game on it after school. That was before the installers decided they couldn't instal the tv on the wall we wanted it on ("I've been doing this for 10 years and never came across something like this") (to be fair it was just paneling over a brick wall (which we hope to some day take off) but the studs weren't adequate to hang the tv from.) So the other wall where he wants to put it requires us to have a carpenter come and take out a wall mounted airconditioner (which admittedly were were going to do at some point but not NOW) and patchup the wall and somehow match the paneling and yadayada and what about the siding. Bottom line tv, player and wii returned to sender and once again for every x many thousands of dollars we intend to sink into the house it's multiplied by 5 and that corresponds to an equal and opposite reduction in home value.


Tuesdays are like this: Liam and Brendan have school, Eric works, then I work at 5:00, and Liam and Brendan have Irish dancing at 5:15 and Liam has baseball at 6:00. When means they have to eat dinner at 4:15 or else they have to wait til 7:15 and that's too close to bedtime.

(This was written today)
Also, usually Eric walks the kids to school but this morning I walked Liam. When we were just about there Liam said in his sweet small voice, "In music we're learning our last song." "Is it the song you'll sing at the end of the year kindergarten celebration?" "Yes, it's the very last song we'll sing and it's an echo song." AHHHH! I am so sad. This is going by too fast and there is NO WAY I am going to be able to sit through something like that. I will seriously sneak out if I can do it undetected and go back in at the end because really there is no way I could be there. heart breaking...