Firstly I didn't get out of bed until like noon today. I think the clock said 11:43 so I was still technically in the morning but kinda not. I felt SOOOO good. I rarely get that much unbroken sleep. So I'm getting up and I do this thing where I walk around my house. I don't know when I started doing it but I do it every day. As soon as I hop out of bed, I walk around my house until I inevitably have to go to the bathroom. So I did that this morning and thanks to the really big cup of juice I had last night I made it as far as the living room before my body said walk later, pee now. Anyway, Livy called me and was like can you come over Omi's before work or we can come visit you. I said I had just gotten out of bed and wasn't dressed yet so somehow that meant come home. My mom calls me back and says the girls decided that they want to be at home with you before you go to work. They don't get to spend a lot of time with me now that I've gone to work so it's cool, I get dressed and wait for like an hour because my mom took them back to her house to get their clothes and clean up since they spent Friday and Saturday night over there. They get back and Livy says nothing about putting her bed together. Nothing at all. I let her sit for maybe 45 minutes before I decided, I knew what I was doing since they have the same exact bed and I already put one together, we won't have that wasted time of figuring out what the pictures mean so let's get to it. I mean wow! When she saw me coming with the knife to open the boxes, her face lit up like the fourth of July!
Got all the boxes open and started to put pierces where we needed them when the doorbell rings. Jayden and Mia want Livy to come out but she's like no, we gotta put the bed together. They want to help. Then the next door neighbor came over, for the life of me I cannot spell this child's name right so I'm going to just put Bri. So now I have 5 kids in my house all wanting to help.
I sent them downstairs to play rock band.
Also I remembered that I borrowed Joe's tools and that it had the attachment to go in my drill. Thinking that would speed things up considerably I prepared to use that when I found the ratchet tool. Why has no one told me of this wondrous tool before?!?!? Turn click turn click turn and boom done!! I love it. I love tools. I love Joe for having said tools. Joe is my new hero. So in no time at all I got the ends put together and I called the kids up to help me put the beam across the middle that would hold them together. Click ratchet, click turn, done! Put another bar on and realized I have 20 minutes to get dressed, grab lunch and get to work. Kicked the extra kids out got dressed and boogied out.
Work was work. Folded boxes. Took deliveries. Got out early because I was already in overtime and it was dead. I reiterate my previous statement about it would be livelier in a cemetery waiting for the dead to wake up. Except I had Josh, Josh and joe together make it an interesting night. They tend to forget that I'm a girl and certain conversations don't need to be had around me so I get a healthy dose of what's in boys minds. Throw in Wendy who grew up with boys and lives with her fiance and two boys and it's a freaking laugh riot. But when Joe said I could go I got cause I had to go to walmart before I continued home to finish the bed.
It took until ten minutes ago to finish the bed get the mattress up and on it and unrolled and the bed made. 12 midnight on the dot we were done. Livy got up there and declared she wasn't coming down until morning. I kissed her hand and turned off the light and I'm pretty sure both she and Kayla are out like lights right now.
But the best part was when I was helping them finish the ladder, Livy turns to Kayla and says "We have the best mom on the planet. She's so cool." It took all I had to not sit there and cry happy tears. I mean they say it every now and then but it's usually because I let them stay up to watch a movie or something. This time it was because and I quote, "She did the beds before work and now after work when she's tired. You are so awesome mommy!"
So Livy is now in her first full sized bed. Up in the air. She even loves the cheap as hell mattress from Ikea. That or she was really tired. Either way, I'll get her a mattress pad later.
Have I mentioned that I can stand under these beds and not have to duck? I'm five foot six and three quarters but there is an inch of space between the top of my head and the bottom of the part where the mattress goes.
So now I'm sitting here with cookies and milk which I shouldn't be eating but I need them to relax with before bed. I told the girls that they could get up at 7 which to Kayla means 630 because yeah, the late riser had to have an early bird kid. It's karma biting me in the face for all the years my mom had to resort to banging on the wall and spraying me with cold water to wake me up I get the kid that is up with the sun and ready to play. Jovaughn's get up on no school day schedule is dictated by his stomach. If his stomach says time to get up, he's up until he gets food and then he's down again. Olivia... now that's my child 100%. If there's no school or no reason to get up, the child stays in bed as long as she possibly can. This has gone up to 12 hours. I shit you not, that girl can marathon sleep with the best of them.
So yeah, I'm taking my super mom ass to bed and going to dream good dreams.
Night bloggers!! Stay frosty!!
