"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
Woke up at 5AM. Stumbled to the kitchen to start the coffee. Walk dog in cold, creepy darkness. Finish packing 4 to 7 lunch boxes. Double check backpacks for whatever. Pack a couple of snacks for the two littlest girls. Pour first cup of coffee. Sit down. Take two sips of coffee. Go upstairs to wake up two of the kids. Make those kids breakfast (bowl of cereal, yogurt smoothie, toast - nothing that involves a lot of cooking). Sit back down. Read Bible and attempt to pray before getting up again and waking up two more children. Make those kids breakfast. Drink more coffee. Take vitamins. Wake up last child plus teenager. Start nagging younger kids to get dressed. Go wake up teenager again. Continue nagging kids to get dressed. Text teenager to make sure she is awake. Get little kids into the van after hair and teeth brushing. Drive very short distance to their school and drop em off. Return home. Pick up dirty clothes and dishes that kids have left everywhere . Walk dog...again. Have five minutes of conversation with my husband. Yell at teenager to remember her lunch box as she heads out the door. Take middle schooler across town for school. Return home. This gets us to around 8:30AM
"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Kevin hung a hummingbird feeder outside his office window last summer. This provided us with much enjoyment and the cat with much frustration.
"We obese women overtip, get pressured into buying more expensive cell phones and laptops, all the while that we are fawningly thanking clerks and telling stores it's not a problem that it will take another week for delivery. We do this as an act of begging pardon for taking up so much space, for stepping out of the invisibility of being fat by asking for things."
