Life In a Small Town

So much going on ..as usual Made it home from OKC Sunday night. Had school, tutoring, and picking up 350+ boxes of cookies last night Had to skip the JA meetings to do that! Stayed up til midnight sorting enough cookies to take to school personnel today. Today it's class all day...then tutoring....then working the book fair. (*and delivering cookies to school staff throughout the day) Then I'm sure I'll be up late sorting cookies for town deliveries. Wednesday....delivering cookies in town, church,choir practice. Thursday...I've got to get my JA Scrapbook page made for the national scrapbook. It has to be postmarked by Saturday! Friday....girl scout meeting Saturday...selling girl scout cookies at Walmart. and on top of all this...my dad is in very bad health. I think I made my mother cry last night because she wouldn't go against his wishes and call an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He's on oxygen 24/7 for his COPD, and right now, he's got pnuemonia...

So the first week of school is over...and my house sure does show it! I know it feels abandoned...being in my classroom from 6:45am-5:30pm each day this week, bringing home work to do each night....I've just not paid my poor house much attention. It's neglected. The laundry mountains in each room were reaching out to trip me as I walked by...begging to be picked up. The dust bunnies were purposefully multiplying just to get me to notice them. The clutter on the floor needed a bull-dozer to move it. The dishes...oh don't even get me started on how guilty the dishes were tryin to make me. But c'mon!! What could I do? I've been busy!! And I had to work at the Health Expo today... but..since coming home I've been spending some quality time with my house. The laundry room was happy to see me...the dryer even whistled my name I think! The sink blessed me with an endless supply of hot water..and all the bubbles lasted throughout the entire washing. The floor is able to...