Lonngggg Day

I have said before that I am not a morning person. I am a night person. I'd rather stay up very late and sleep in a bit longer. I can be grumpy in the morning. Or at least quite quiet. With that as a preface, I set a goal a few years ago to be chipper when my feet hit the floor first thing. Those first thoughts and interactions can set the tone for the whole day.

So my wake up call today was 4:30am. Christine had to be at the meeting point to leave for YW Girls Camp by 5. That time does NOT work for me. Duff got up first and woke her up. I followed with something to eat and last minute details. I guess my smiling face and cheerfullness (remember my goal...) might have been too much even for her at that time of the day. Wait--day? It was still pitch black outside. Night is what it felt like! Our neighbor picked her up on the way up the street and we went back to bed. That really doesn't work well, either. I just dream weird things when I do that. But do that, we did.

She has great leaders and the camp will be fun. It is a 'ward' camp this year. She will have a really good time and learn a lot too. The one thing that might hamper her enjoyment level will be the sunburn she is still dealing with from her Wild Rivers trip last week. Her shoulders are still pretty pink. But she took a lot of tshirts and she will probably need to use them while in the boats, tubing down the river, etc.

Monday means laundry. But it's done now until Thursday. Robert is fighting a sore throat and missed work. Talked food storage with my dad for about an hour. He is on fire with emergency prep right now. When Natalie was 'off the clock' this afternoon she and I went through her old bedroom closet and got a good start on her pre-marriage things. A bunch of clothes, shoes, and purses. She did this a year ago before the wedding, but somehow in our human nature we hang on to things we are just sure we will want/need/use later on and never do. Tomorrow we will begin to tackle all the miscellaneous things of which there is a lifetime to go through. She and I seem to be on the same clean out/purging page right now. I felt so liberated when we packed up all those things yesterday and got them out of the house.

Shaun warmed up leftovers for dinner. He gets to do that often. Ahhh, I get it now. That's probably why he picked Monday for his dinner night! Makes it easy. My house is FULL of guys upstairs right now watching movies, playing video games and having a good time. It's midnight so I'm going to attempt to go to bed. Who knows when they will leave. I'm glad they all get along and have fun together.