$5 in Library Fines and a Few Steps from Pure Chaos.

10am and my boys are watching PBS Kids, sick and periodically fighting over blankets and pillows. Caleb is home from school with a fever and general illness, Joshua has a cough, pink eye, and generally surliness (that rash is from his constant licking and rubbing his face. Like a cat. Aquifer barely keeps the whole mess at bay as you can tell). Gavin, well he is not sick and causing all kinds of havoc.

Since I couldn't make it to the library today, as I had hoped, I tried to renew my books online and discovered about $5 in fines. I now have to decide if I want to attempt to pack up the my sick children just to make a library drop in order to avoid MORE fines on my People magazines and a few kid DVDs or scrap it and hope Justin gets home in time for me to make the run, alone, before the library closes. The problem with that, is I tend to linger and stay in the library until it does close. Wait, maybe this isn't a problem at all? I wish I was more organized to not have these daily struggles.

Which brings me to a BIG task looming over my stay-at-home head... Over the weekend I got a bee in my bonnet over rearranging the furniture in our Front Room, which is our computer/library area. And I still have stacks of books and games awaiting their proper home on a shelf. Calling my name, "Put me AwaYYYYY."   The loads of folded and unfolded laundry do this to me too. I think there is a conspiracy going on in my house. 

And the textbooks alone are an entity of their own. Just look at the Teaching textbooks and the Engineer books just longing to get cozy, mingle, and run away together. I have to keep them separated or else we may have the Fractals Growth Phenomena getting a little too fresh with my Meeting the Standards and before you know it mutiny and destruction.  I am talking End of the World stuff here.

Thus is my life every day. We are just a few steps from pure chaos and absolute bliss.

Now please excuse me while I help Gavin put on his Spiderman costume for the 5th day in a row.