had a busy but lovely day yesterday . . . until Claira tripped at the lakeside playground and whacked her face on a wooden teeter totter.

Her eye is all swole up and she is NOT in the happiest of moods. Poor love.

people coming to install new blinds this morning, and feels she must make some attempt at taming the chaos before they arrive. Sigh.

All right. No more self-pity. Just Claira-pity, and some hard work . . .

tidied and wiped down the main floor bathroom, tidied the front entrance, cleared the kitchen counters, cleared the table,

fed Claira a second breakfast and cuddled her till she started hitting me.

done all the dishes that were in the sink, and scrubbed the sink, counter, table, and high chair.

grabbed herself a quick bit of breakfast and placated Claira with an apple.

done a little plurk catch up, but alas, only a little.

hang in there!

Thanks, love.

tidied the entire main floor, reorganized living room book shelf, and put several dozen things away.

got older girls to clean up mess they made in Claira's bedroom, as Claira may be napping early today.

sorry everything seems a bit chaotic lately

Thanks. It would be nice to have things calm down a bit, but it's looking like that's not in the cards.

to pack! Ack! Nearly forgot that we're going away for the weekend tomorrow morning (family wedding 3 hours away).

swept the main floor, scrubbed some of the sticky spots, welcomed lady who is apparently installing the blinds all by herself.

herded the girls into the basement to be out of the way, put away a load of laundry, tidied Claira's room and prepped it for naptime,

and will now go feed the girls their morning snack.

ready for a nap herself...

poor Claira!

quite worried about her now. The eye is starting to ooze a little. Could be infection. Neil is bringing home drops just in case.

put through more laundry, folded several loads, arranged evening plans (kids we're babysitting are coming over here - much easier),

put more laundry through - discovered washing machine is leaking!! ARgH!

carried clean basket of laundry upstairs and collapsed in desk chair.

wow, what a day and with a leaking washing machine on top of it all!

most of the leaks I see with washing machines can be fixed with some thread tap

tape

poor little girly! I hope she mends well and quickly. And good luck with all your busyness!

conquered her stress with a nice long cuddle with her two older girls (Claira is napping).

served and cleaned up lunch, dried the laundry room to the best of her ability, and will now tackle more laundry folding and clean rec room.

you are a queen today with all that you are accomplishing in spite of resistance!

Go girl!

folded another load, showered and dressed and done hair and whatnot.

tended Claira and given her medicine and snacks.

written cheques for people installing blinds and people spraying for ants (busy day at Chez VanderHorst!).

tidied the girls' bedroom. Somewhat.

get yelled at by Neil if she pushes too hard. He lives in fear of me being put on bed rest again!

put the dining room back together. The new blinds look . . . decent. Not in love with them, but they'll do. It will be nice not to be living

in a veritable greenhouse anymore.

paid for the blinds, swept the main floor again (a little more thoroughly this time, apparently), done more tidying in girls' room,

played with Claira, scrubbed main floor toilet, and taken vitamins and much water.

now waiting for fellow spraying house to finish up so she can pay him and start vacuuming (he should be knocking on door shortly).

done the lunch dishes, paid the exterminator, and will now . . . what was I going to do? Nap? No . . . vacuum. That was it. Or maybe . . .

watched 20 minutes of a movie.

finished tidying girls' bedroom and prepped it for vacuuming.

packed the girls' weekend bag and pulled out their dresses for the wedding.

cleaned up the bits of apple that Claira spit all over the house.

spat! What's with you North Americans and your dubious past participles??

realized belatedly she'd written the wrong word but was too lazy to delete and rewrite.

any questionable past participles are justified by the day you've had.

Thanks! I agree!

finished cleaning house, made white chocolate popcorn, welcomed friends' kids and saw friends off, much feeding, cleaning, story reading,

gentle scolding, not-so-gentle scolding, cuddling, tidying, tucking-in, re-tucking-in. Overall tiring but good.

Friends and theirs kids seen off, ours into bed, time wasted online. Off to pack for trip!

just reading your day makes me tired....and that is your 'not over doing'?