My very productive day

Today has simply been one of those days where I actually got a whole lot done, as opposed to just wanting to get it done. It feels really really good to have accomplished so much and yet I know I am going to pay for it tommorow and probably days later.

Last night we were up really late watching Mall Cop. I recomend it for kids not so much for adult, to much of a lame plot and canned comedy. I thought that would mean everybody would sleep in. Uhm no this morning X was up a tad past seven! JT got up with him and tried to let me sleep. He is rather noisey in his version of try but he did try. I was up by seven-thirty.

It was a really beautiful morning so I didn't waste it. I jumped right in getting stuff done.

I have a small garden plot with tomatoes and peper plants and some planters. Today I finally got the mulch on the plot, the cages around the plants, another tiny plot dug and the planters where I wanted them. I still need more cages and mulch. It actually looks like a garden now though. The yard where it is has been used by people to drive on and dump thier trah on for awhile before we got here and is not exactly ideal to make a garden so this is a big step for us. The sil seems good enough since it was growing a huge huge crop of wild onions. We put up a fence to put a stop to people actually driving on the lawn as well, but not today.

I also managed to get enough hose length to got from the back to the front a bit so that I could set up the wadding pool.The pool was gross dirty and had to be scrubed out big time. I also had to rake the sticks up from the yard as best as I could to make a spot for it. I got it filled up and the little kids were very happyabout that.

Later I went to Wally World all alone. I went for three things and came back with many more. Found fresh corn at a fantastic price so had to get a lot. I also got some tree lopers. When I got home I made a lot of use of the lopers. I have a huge amount of lopped off branches now and am much happier with the look of our foresty yard. It was really exhausting work but it felt so so good to do it. Tommorow the kids are going to drag them all into one pile outside the fence.

For dinner I grilled chicken, steak, and hotdogs and steamed fresh corn on the cobb. Oh I had been slow cooking baked beans all day as well but I forgot about them when it was dinner time. Tried a made up marinade on the chicken that was fantastic but I'm not sure I can duplicate it which sucks.

JT got called out just before I put things on the grill which sucked big freaking time. I'm tired of everything always being interupted by his job. it's not like they pay a fortune to make up for the inconvience either.

The kids watched tv while I did the cooking and then we ate really well. After we ate we roasted marshmellows and made smores. Xavier insisted on doing his own marshmellow. Hailey decided she should roast one just for the ants! Then Jason wanted to go swimming again and of course X and Hailey did to.

After I go the food put away and Hailey and X into bed Jason started asking about me cutting his hair again. He has been asking for over a month and things have been to crazy, and now I haven't been able to find the hair scissors. He's been really paitent though so tonight I just grabed an extra pair of sewing ones and did it. It would have been so much easier with the clippers but he hates the feel and noise of them. I really have no idea what I am doing when I cut hair on the kids. I just kinda start and keep shaping it as I go. I'm much better with the clippers. I had to touch it up three times after he would go look in the mirror, but finally he was very happy with it. it definately doesn't look like a pro did it but it's not terrible either.

Then Jason went to bed, I checked my cousins, sons, website for an update on his cancer treatments (he's hanging in there), and grated a bar of soap for the laundry soap I'm going to make tommorow.

I feel like so much was accomplished today. It was even better because Hannah did a lot as well, without a complaint and JT did a bunch of little things so I didn't have to.

I feel really good but tired right now. I think I'm going to pay a heavy price for all this productiveness, tommorow but I'll deal with it then.