I FLY

I had a hard time going to sleep last night and then popped my eyes open, wide awake, at 4 am. The good news is that today is a lazy day. No cheer practice to get Hannah to this morning.

House is clean. I mean REALLY clean - no laundry waiting to be folded, no floors or toilets to scrub, I got everything squared away. I've been "FLY"ing for several months now. FLYing probably isn't the right term though, I flutter more than fly. I get all of the e-mails and I use the tips as a motivator, then I do what works for me. I don't do a load of laundry a day, I do all of the laundry on Monday because I know I wouldn't fold it daily and it's out of sight in the basket until I am ready to do it. During the school year when I'm working, I usually have Mondays off. We are usually so crazy running around most of the week, that we aren't home to make messes. Me doing the housework on Monday and running errands on Friday keeps me from having to do a lot of housework during the middle of the week.

Keith was impressed that I have this little system to keep me on track though. The house will get messy, but it's usually something that is an easy fix (except for vacuuming the stairs, that will never be a quick or pleasant chore). I've gotten to where Hannah has a basket and I will toss her things in the basket and have her empty it when it's full. Like I said, I do what works for me. I still like having the system of do this one little extra thing each day and the house will be clean (like a reminder to wipe off the top of the fridge once a month). The most difficult room in the house for me to get under control though was my own clutter pit, the scrapbook room. I've been dividing and conquering though and it's coming together.

So, all that being said, I am waiting for Hannah to wake up! Yep, she's dead asleep (and I'm the one who slept lousy last night). She is surrounded by the 3 kitties and seems pretty peaceful. Horseback riding at 5.

Speaking of horseback riding, Deb got a chick for each of the girls who helped make the new habitat for the petting zoo and had them draw to see which type they would be able to call their own just around early Spring. Hannah drew the coveted Araucana, nicknamed the Easter egg chicken, that lays different colored eggs. After doing a lot of online research, she decided to name the chicken Dhruvi, because she read that it was introduced by Indians (but Indians in Chile, not India like her actual school friend Dhruvi! oops). After waiting a few months for the chicks arrival, they finally came the last week of June. She missed the week before and the week while we were in Florida. When we went back last week, her little fuzzy handful of a chick was a teenaged chicken! I went to the pen where the chicks were and Hannah looked up at me, surrounded by these almost fully grown chickens and said with a little pout, "they got big." Deb plans on keeping the chickens as part of the "petting zoo" that she has lovingly added to the stables and selling the organic eggs to offset the costs of caring for the chickens. It's all I can do to pry Hannah away. First just from the horses, now from the llama, goats, chickens, bunnies....