Remembering Monday . . .

Yesterday had Monday written all over it.

After a hard rain Sunday night, the back yard had several mud pits, which both children found particularly alluring. I'm really ok with playing in the mud, as long as it doesn't attach itself to anything they are wearing and come tromping through my house.

I forgot to warn/remind them. In came the mud, and it left its cakey footprints in a circle around the living room, through the kitchen, and into my bedroom. I sighed, muttered something under my breath about mud and children, and then commenced to cleaning it up.

A few hours later, Grace cut her toe on something (we still don't know what) on the living room floor (it could be a number of things, since I let Luke make tents from our card tables in the living room floor, and he filled both with piles of "tent-stuff" from his room). It was a small cut, but it produced blood drops across the living room floor, landing on the carpet, several books, Luke's sleeping bag, and down the front of my jeans. Once I consoled and bandaged her toe, and set her to happily invading one of Luke's tents, I sighed, muttered something under my breath about blood and children, and started cleaning up. One big drop landed on one of her fuzzy animal books; after vigorous cleaning, the poor fluffy chicken still looks like he's been in a hen-fight. I think I'll put a band-aid on him.

Both children were generally out of sorts all day, and between feeding them, cleaning them, and issuing lectures on why you don't grab things from your sister and why you don't squeal at the top of your lungs at your brother, I decided that it was just a Monday. You just have to laugh.

Yesterday's celebrations:
Happy Anniversary to my older sister and brother-in-law! 18 years of wedded bliss and two children later, these two are still having a lot of fun together! Of all the weddings I have been to, there day was one of the happiest and most fun ones that I remember. Lots of great people, two happy sets of parents and siblings, terrific music, yummy food, and just a plain-ol-good-time. We had the poofy 80's hair, the floral dresses with the narrow waists and the humongous shoulder pads (my sister and I kept Leslie Lucks in business through the years), and lots of pink lipstick. We were looking good! Happy anniversary to two of my favorite people--I love you!

And happy birthday to two of my favorite little people; twins Jared and Jordan Walla celebrated their birthday yesterday, and we celebrated right along with them. We hope you had a super-fun day--we'll never forget the Mario Brothers or PikMin (sp)or your love for collecting little things. We love you guys!

Happy Tuesday to you in blogland!
Jana