A Day

Whew!  It's Saturday.  A day where, before 10am, the boys had done their farm chores, Jeff helped a goat whose head was stuck in a barrel, I dropped off the boys' spend-the-night friend, dropped boys at a Boy Scout merit badge class, AND had Ivey suited up and at hockey evaluations.

Today was a day where Mim had Olive to ballet at 10:30, and Ivey and I met them there to catch the tail end of class.  We then made it to pick up the boys from their class by 12:00... where they successfully earned the Citizenship in the Nation merit badge that they had been working toward for weeks.

It was a day where Jeff and Randy managed to work in the 96 degree heat, in an army tent, to cut the first girt for our house.  

A day where the boys got home, packed up supplies, and made it out the door by 2:30 for a Scout camping & canoeing trip.

A day where Olive and Ivey danced through Lowe's, pretended to be ninjas, and giggled till they almost peed in their pants.

Me: "Olive, are those ninja moves easier without any clothes on?"
Olive: "Yeah, cause I'm kinda invisible."

Olive: "Water is like an invisible ninja drink. It looks just like cups." 

A day where, at 11pm, I was in the kitchen making chocolate chip cookies (and eating the dough until I was physically ill) while listening to the sounds of Jeff's saw in the tent and the guineas yelling at Jeff's saw from their perches in the trees.

 Tonight, my boys are sleeping in a tent in the woods, my girls are snuggled in a single bed, my husband is catching hard-earned zzz's on the couch... 

...and I will finally call it a day.