This morning I slept until I was completely done with sleeping. Five days per week I am the first person out of bed; the one who makes everyone else get up. So I figure two days per week everyone can just muddle along without me until I am good and ready to be awake. Sometimes the ratio is 6 days to 1 because of early church, but this year we have church in the afternoons, so I sleep on Sunday too. The extra sleep is necessary since I tend to run on a sleep deficit most of the time.
Not surprisingly the remainder of today has been pretty effective. I mentally scheduled myself for a bunch of house/family stuff and it is all done now. Well, not laundry. Laundry is never truly done. I should probably do some more today. Also left to do is making all the kids bathe. The influx of spring weather has been accompanied by increasingly dirty kids as they spend hours playing outside. Not today though. Today they’ve spent most of the day at the kitchen table constructing Pikmin characters out of Crayola Model Magic clay. Each of them has a small army of figures now and the game spans three territories spread across the entire table. This burst of creative energy was begun by the fact that I said they had to clean their rooms before playing video games. But they are having so much fun that they’re still playing with their figures even though I made them stop to clean their rooms. They’d rather play their own game than be hemmed in by the restrictions of the game itself.
After the rooms were clean, I spontaneously decided that we should all head over to the grocery store to use the coupons for free ice cream cones. It was a fun little mini-outing. I need to do more just-because fun things with the kids. Saturdays may be a good space for that. Weekdays tend to be all scheduled.