"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Monday, April 5, 2010

Monday Morning

Last night, E and M asked if they could sleep in the same bed.

Feeling like a lunatic, I agreed.

At first there were lots of giggles.

I went in and reminded them they had to actually sleep.

E said: Mom, this is fun.

About five minutes later, we heard this bulletin:

Says E: Mooooommmmm, M is kicking me. (Pause) I DO NOT want her in my bed anymore.

About an hour later, and several kicking, hair-pulling and pushing episodes later, we put M back in her crib.

*****

In other news, this morning I went to WalMart at the crack of dawn because I could not handle going on Saturday.

The only thing not stocked was cream.

Hello, I live on cream.

They also had no checkers, and since I was not going to self-check half a month of groceries, I made the 20 or less checker do it.

I know, I am evil.

If you were at WalMart at 5:30 this morning, I sincerely apologize.

But not really.

*****

It is supposed to snow today and tomorrow.

I think this is because I complained about Iowa being cold and snowy.

For the past two weeks, Iowa's average temperature has been 20 - 40 degrees above ours.

So, I will stop complaining and maybe the snow will stop too.

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Well, M went upstairs to "help" GQ get out of his crib.

I suppose I should go check on that.

Especially since she just unplugged the monitor.

4 comments:

Heidi said...

my kids always beg to sleep together. It never works. I finally put my foot down and it is not allowed anymore.
I will never know what wal-mart looks like that early - way to go!

familyof4 said...

You kids are adorable. I wish we lived closer to let them play.

We actually have been successful with sharing a bed. It's been two weeks and they haven't had any problems. I like this because there is a lot more space in the room!

Your crazy for going shopping so early, but I totally understand. Heck, I would probably join you! =)

Libbi said...

I'm commencing to go to Walmart "sometime" today......I really don't enjoy shopping.

Paula Wood said...

Michele and I slept together for YEARS!!! I STILL (from AT LEAST 46 years ago) remember drawing an imaginary line down the middle of our bed and our fighting like kittens if one of us slid a toe, finger or NOSE across the line! I ALSO remember my Dad's voice, in particular, saying "Girls! Girls! THAT IS ENOUGH!" which would, of course, send us into fits of laughter!


I hope Ellie and Meg have as much fun together as Michele and I do ALL THESE YEARS LATER!

Love,
Grandma Paula