Cider house rules!

I thought about summer yesterday, but this morning was perfectly autumn. Cool, in the mid-fifties and dewy glistening grass.

So I packed the kids up and headed to the cider mill. We were first in line and first out the door with warm cider and donuts. I feel so much better now. Considering I was up shortly after five with a crying tot, thinking the day was going to suck, that’s saying a lot.

Fighting the urge to fall over tired, but filled with yummy apple goodness, I’ll do my best to take on the day. Bring. It. On.

It's early

Did you ever have a time when you wanted to go back to sleep, but you just couldn’t? This is one of those times. My brain turned on early this morning. I know it’s always on. But we’re talking interrupt you from a nice sleep at 5 o’clock early, and it’s Saturday.

I woke up to a not so quiet inside my head voice that told me, literally shouted at me, to get up and work. I couldn’t turn it off or down. I tried, but it kept interrupting my attempted snooze, Get up and write! Yeah, yeah, ah this pillow is nice (pulling the covers around me).

It broke in again, Spend a few moments of alone time with your husband, even though he’s busy with work e-mails. Workout or take a walk (yeah, right). Oh, write! Take the laundry that’s been in the back hall to the dry cleaners before it walks there on its own! Grocery list. E-mail. Sort, read and recycle that pile of magazines that’s nearly as tall as you kid now. Clean something, anything! Figure out your garden plan, buy planters and potting soil then get the box of plants mom sent last week in the ground before they die. And please, I beg you, do something to get that song “Down by the Bay” from the 102 Children’s Songs CD grandma sent out of our head already!

Yes, it’s been that kind of morning. The great part is that I’ve still got early morning kid-tivities before I can even think about doing most of those things. Why did I choose the early gymnastics class? I vaguely remember something about getting a jump on things and a reduced rate for the first class of the morning. Hmpf, amateur. Next time, I’ll spend the extra ten bucks so we can sleep in, or at least try.

The best thing I can do when it gets like this, if I have time, is to jot down a few notes. I’m taking a risk writing this before my first cup of coffee, but it’s already helping. My brain is quieting some. Now instead of “Down by the Bay” I have Train’s “Soul Sister” playing in my head. At least now it’s a different broken record.

Time for some coffee and a few quiet minutes (apart from my head). Enjoy your morning and your weekend!

SYOAS – See you online again soon!