I Know All the Right Answers

but I am pretty sure I am still failing the test.

Take for instance the total exhaustion I feel today, which has made me totally retreat and accomplish nothing at all. Wanna guess what time I went to bed last night? 11:30. Wanna know what I have had to eat today? Bowl of cereal, Ice Blended Caramel from Coffee Bean, caramellos & mango. Healthy, huh? So should I b SURPRISED that I feel like rotby 6 pm?

And do you want to know what I was up so late doing? Well the right answer should be that I was working on my menu plan or organizing the closet like Joel has asked me to do or writing letters to our grandparents or, this is a good one, "I was so caught up in the Word of God that I just couldn't put it down." But no, I did not apply the right answer. I was, as usual, up late finishing a layout (which, don't worry, I'll show you at the end of this post). Now, to be fair, Max, who didn't go to sleep till about 9 because he kept crying that his foot hurt, woke up twice between 9&11 and had to be held till he cried himself back to sleep, so technically I would have been up anywya, AND since I was up, I got to chat with Joel a little bit, but the truth, the honest truth is that I would have been up anyway to finish that page.

And let me tell ya, today we all paid for my mistake. I set my alarm for 5, but I did not get up at 5. (I need that time to wake up before I have to start interacting nicely with other people) Nope, I did not get up till Jack came in at 7:30 and told me he was hungry and woke Max up. Then I kind of stumbled to the kitchen, poured cereal in a bowl and sat down and spent the next hour on the computer. Jack didn't make it to school, because we have to leave by 7:45 to get him there on time, and clearly that wasn't happening. So he missed yet another day of school, and then he kept asking me why I wasn't getting him some milk...WHILE I was washing the cups so I could have something to pour the milk into, and I kept trying to tell him what I was doing, and he kept interrupting with this haughty sort of why aren't you doing what i told you to do? demanding little attitude, so finally I yelled, "JACK STOP TALKING!" which caused him to erupt in tears and run hide behind the curtains screaming, "I AM SO ANGRY!"

GREAT PARENTING THERE, KEL. But you know that the poor parenting started last night at 9 when I decided to start a layout instead of going to bed.

AND I KNOW THAT! But I still make the wrong choices all the time. Is there a pill I can take for this?!

Anyway, I didn't actually compltely waste my day. I did eventually go to the CoffeeBean and answer some emails. In fact, I am proud to say taht my inbox is now down to 23 emails (it was at 82 Monday). I went to get my hair cut, but my girl decided to take a couple of extra days of vacation, which makes the THIRD time I have been to the salon this month to get my hair cut and had to leave with my same old ratty hair that hasn't been cut since April. Oh, how I wish folks round here made appointments to get their hair cut.

BUT SINCE I DID SACRIFICE SO MUCH FOR THIS LAYOUT...

I used my friend, Jacq's beautiful kit Mocha Latte to make this page about saying goodbye to my parents from Jan. 2005.

Here's hoping for a better day tomorrow. I think I will start tonight with an early bedtime!