Last on the list

As I get into bed at 9 pm after starting my day at 6 am, I finally don’t have to think of anyone, any immediate work.  Finally everything for the day is done.

This includes dropping off boys at school, picking up Zander, picking up the boys at school.  Cleaning up the bathroom Zander after a little potty mishap.  Seeing clients.  Doing tax returns.  Working towards my Friday deadline.  Feeding kids.  Coaching cricket.  Doing homework.  Making posters for Friday’s entrepreneurs day.  Feeding.  Giving the right medication to the right child.  Yes mom they ate before they got their medication. Bathing.  Saying goodnight and giving compliments.  Hugs and kisses.

So there I am in bed at 9 pm.  Tommie turns around and says “You know, I’m last on your list of priorities”  He might be right there at the bottom but he is not last.  I am.  I would love for it to be different but there’s only 24 hours in a day and I need at least 8 hours sleep (which does not count as me time, especially after having very little to no sleep for 8 years).  Sorry about that.

After giving Zander his bath, I put on his favourite Barney pj’s and without saying anything like every other night I give him a big hug. He hugs me back (those real big bear hugs) and says “Love you too” nogal net so in Engels. 

All I needed.  Just a thank you and I love you.

 

Reasons why today sucks

Reasons why today sucks

• My husband’s not home and I had to make my own coffee (lol)
• I walked into my office and my computer kept on restarting
• I didn’t back-up yesterday and now they have to reload everything (I know I know).   Apparently the hard drive is no longer hard with us.
• I organized a playdate for Jason (I have to pick the little guy up from school) and forgot that Jason has a party this afternoon!!!!
• I need lights put in at home before I have my floors put in next week and the electrician is not pitching up.

Reasons why today doesn’t suck

• ……..
• ……..

 

Interesting human body facts

Got this via e-mail

- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. 

- It takes food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. 

- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples. 

- The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.  

- A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.  

- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.  

- Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.  

- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.  

- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.  

- Women blink twice as much as men.  

- The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as their brain.  

- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate…they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!  

- Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t. 

- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. 

- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. 

- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man. 

*** You looked at your thumb….. Didn’t you?

 

Alarm

I lie there, trying to day dream myself into sleep.  No seriously.  These days I don’t just fall asleep.  I have to ‘day dream’ before hopefully falling asleep.  Horrible feeling that.  Being worried that just maybe you won’t fall asleep.

Finally my dream takes over reality and I drift off to the land of the Sandman.  Just.  Then the house alarm goes off.  There is NOTHING that gets your heart rate up so quickly as being woken up from deep sleep to your home alarm going off in South Africa.

Withing milliseconds I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to protect the kids, when I realize Tommie is up and walking through the house already.  I grab my cellphone, with my finger right on the emergency button…just in case. 

In the end we figure out it’s the main bedroom that set off the alarm and all is fine and well in our room.  I keep the phone with me as the security company should be phoning to hear if everything is okay.  I lie there…phone on my chest…waiting for the call.  Nothing.  I’m almost asleep - this time without the help of day dreaming - when I realize I still have the phone on my chest.  No call.  15 Minutes later.  I put the phone on silent (and vibrating) in case they phone, since I don’t want it to wake up Zander or Tommie.

No call.

It’s now 12 : 19 pm.  It’s the next day already and I’m still waiting for the call.

Much help they are.