Today ...

7:00 AM - Got up,
Made breakfast,
Woke up the Ls,
Got L ready for school,
Threw Lulu in her PJs in the stroller,
8:30 AM - walked L to school,
Walked back home,
8:35 AM - Loaded the washing machine,
Turned on a show for Lulu and got her set up with snacks and a drink,
Put on my "working-clothes",
8:45 AM -  Painted the bathtub walls

Pulled out 1Million floor staples and cleaned the floor for laying the tile

Sanded the walls

11:30 AM - Hauled 5 gallons of warm water out to the play structure to take a shower

12:00 PM - Made lunch for Lulu and realized we hadn't decorated her new school basket

12:15 PM - Decorated the school basket

12:45 PM - Drove Lulu to school to drop her off for her (second) first day of pre-school
1:15 PM - Sneaked out of class after Mrs. Tang distracted Lulu long enough for me to do so
1:30 PM - Went grocery shopping for the week
2:00 PM - RACED home
2:01 PM - Walk into the house and find the entire bathroom trash bins contents all over my living room
2:02 PM - Yell at the Dork and just look in complete disbelief and shock at what he had chewed up
(think women - monthly cycle - bathroom trash .... got the image? "You are welcome!" I will dream about this tonight for sure. By far the MOST disgusting thing I have ever encountered. That Dork will NEVER lick me again!!! EVER!!!!
2:05 PM - Cleaned up the Dork's mess
2:08PM -  Emptied the car

2:15 PM - Threw the supper in the crock pot

2:20 PM - Walked down to school to pick up L

2:35 PM - Walked back home with L,
Fed her a snack,

Sat down for the first time all day!!! 

.. ahhhh ...

Argued about doing home work,
Made her do home work,
3:45 PM - Drove back to Lulu's school to pick her up from class
4:05 PM - Drove back with two VERY cranky and tired girls in the car
4:20 PM - Got home,
Turned on a show for the kids to let them "chill out" (MUCH needed),
Changed back into my "working clothes"
4:30 PM - Kept working on the bathroom, scraping more paint off the walls and door frame
5:15 PM - Pat comes home and takes over the bathroom work
5:30 PM - Hauled out 5 gallons of warm water to the play structure for the Ls to take a shower

6:00 PM - Realize the food is definitely NOT edible tonight
6:05 PM - Wash food down the garb-orator
6:06 PM - Yell at Pat and tell him "Get food"
6:15 PM - Fold laundry
6:30 PM - Pat brings food
7:00 PM - Argue with the Ls about desert and tell them "NO, candy is NOT desert - eat an apple!"
7:15 PM - Make the Ls brush their teeth
7:30 PM - Read three books with the Ls
8:00 PM - Argue with L that she should let Lulu sleep in her bed if Lulu promise to not kick her.
8:01 PM - Make Lulu promise to not kick her sister or she'll have to sleep in her room/bed
8:05 PM - Tuck in Ls, kiss good-night and walk out of the room
8:06 PM - L screams "LULU KICKED ME!"
8:07 PM - Drag Lulu over to her room and argue with her about staying in her bed since she broke her promise and kicked her sister
8:08 PM - Walk out of Lulu's room
8:10 PM - Ignore all pleads from Lulu asking us to come back and sleep with her since she doesn't want to sleep alone
8:20 PM - Fullfil my way overdue blogging responsibilities
est. 9:15 PM - Fold more laundry
Empty dish washer
Reload dish washer
Get Ls lunch ready
est. 10:00 PM - Haul 5 gallons of hot water out to the play structure to take a shower and wash off the bathroom that clings onto me
est. 10:30 PM - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...
est. 1:00 AM - Have a night mare about what the dog chewed up today ...
7:00 AM tomorrow boring - Hit the snooze button!!!
7:02 AM - Get up and do it all over again ...

Try one of my days you fancy 6 digit salary, always proper dressed, CFO woman  ...

Love is ...

... when all you want is a HOT SHOWER but your bathroom is completely disemboweled and he goes out in the yard, at 10:00 PM and builds you this ...

Note the pick-nick table from the play house,which turns into a sand-box-cover now turned into a shower wooden floor ... very spa-like!!!

Thank God we bought this play structure for the Ls!!! They do come in handy ;)

The string-ladder turned into a very convenient towel-rack.

... ambiance lighting ...

... shower caddy ...

AHND ... action!!!

BEST SHOWER I have ever had!
... and all of a sudden I don't care how much longer this bathroom remodel takes.

Play structure for kids: $300
Home made pull-bucket-system: $30
Portable camping shower (out of the garage): $40
Taking a HOT SHOWER, butt-naked, in the middle of the dark in your yard: PRICELESS!!!

Oh how I LOVE my engineer husband!!!

Today

Today ... I was glad we went from this ...

(The moldy-fungus that was hidden behind the tub wall covering has to be my favorite!!!)

... to this over the last three days.

Today ... I was glad that I somehow was able to make this yesterday 

(... in between remodeling, dumping the Ls and Dork at aunty Michelle's house and then running back and forth and back and forth to Home Depot). 

... that I got this ...

... to send it off to Ls new teacher this morning (buttering her up na-course :)

Today ... I was glad the Ls had crafted these last week piece by piece ...

... and I got to hand them out in the morning, just like any good German Mama would :)

Today ... I walked my big L to school to watch her become a 1st Grade student!

Today ... I was glad to see her proudly showing off her new Star Wars lunch box.

Today ... I hugged my big L extra tight because she was VERY scared and worried about this big change.

Today ... we met Ls new teacher, Mrs. Attkisson in Room #5 ... and liked her!

Today ... I walked back, with just one little hand holding mine and telling me about her dreams.

Today ...  I brought my little L to Pre-School for her first meet & great and to bring flowers to her teachers.

Today ... we were so happy to see our very much beloved Mrs. Tang again  and to see her become Lulu's pre-school guardian/teacher.

Today ...  I had to take my big L out for a treat to make the 1st. Grade jitters go away.

After I picked her up from school she broke out in tears and proclaimed "I will NEVER go back there again! There is no play-time and recess is REALLY short!"

Today ... I had to buy the UGLIEST shoes I have ever seen!

I had bought L new, awesome and $$$ Keens 1 month ago.
She wore them today and limped back home complaining about her feet hurting.

When we took off the shoes at home I could see her bruised, squished feet and realized that her feet had grown (after measuring them at StrideRide ... they had grown 1 1/2 sizes LARGER!)
Upon arrival at StrideRide she saw these UGLY Darth Vader shoes and HAD to have them, no talking her out of them ... NO WAY.
The sales lady brought us all kinds of variations in shiny pink or blue with sparkles but NO WAY JOSE, she would not leave the store without these "things".

... now this is "the look"; kaki school uniform dress and black Darth Vader shoes.

Pat's comment: "WOW COOL!!!"

Also I should mention that she pulled that same move in the store, while I was talking to one of the HD guys, but she had her hands in her pockets and pulled the entire dress open (snap-buttons ALL the way down) and then stood half naked in the isle, only wearing her panties and turned BRIGHT red.
I was so proud, my baby streaked for the first time ;)

Today ... I had to run yet another time to Home Depot to get more items I can neither pronounce nor do I know what they do or where they'll go.

... but by now I have figured out that if I just start wandering the same isles up and down and up and down and have the look of a damsel in distress on my face, at least three very helpful but completely clueless Home Depot sales guys will come up to me and offer their help.

Jean-Pierre from yesterday was especially kind and kept asking me, in his charming fresh accent, where I was from and other personal questions.
My "Thank You" to his assistance was replied with "Je vows en prie belle dame".

Thanks Jean-Pierre, I haven't been flirted with in a long time (especially by a "slightly" overweight Home Depot sales guy (sometimes dreams DO come true) but unfortunately I still got the wrong item ...

Today ... I watched my Issie pulling a Marilyn Monroe fan dance in the middle of the Home Depot aisle :)

 

Today ... I made the mistake of letting the Ls eat their way through the Zuckertueten after we came home and then ...

... asked L to do her FIRST home work, which resulted in this ...

Today ... I am REALLY tired and still have to get the house ready for tomorrow, for the window-guys to come and replace all the windows. They will join the bathroom guys, who are still installing the bathtub and Pat who is in charge if walls and laying tile.
But no worries, it'll only have to be completed by FRIDAY since my sissie is coming to visit and we BETTER have a bathroom by then ... plus we'll be really stinky by then!

Right now ... all I want is to take a LONG and hot shower and GO TO SLEEP!!!

Good-night world!!!