You can call it a good day when...

All the bad feelings you purged onto notebook paper the night before are gone when you wake up


A load of laundry, empty dishwasher and swept floors are done before the first child wakes up


The first child up (K) has a new found love of sharks, particularly hammerheads, and you are able to curl up with her and read a library book about sharks before anyone else is up


The oldest, high-maintenance child, actually chooses to entertain herself for nearly two hours creating a perler bead creation for her grandmother, then you are able to teach her how to use an iron without anyone getting a burn


Lots of hugs, tickles and nose honking with the "baby" while older ones are entertaining themselves


MB picking up a book on Jupiter, and then reading the first six pages to me


MB building a a cardboard box playhouse for EM


All breakfast, lunch and snack plates cleaned up without me saying a word


MB's excitement for showing me how Uranus' moon, Miranda, explodes and then comes back together in the documentary we rented


MB finding a work by Van Goh on the "Disney Playspace" site and then wanting to go look him up at the web museum


K coloring, independently, within the lines and actually letting MB and I play Yahtzee.


MB actually only wanting to add the dice together in Yahtzee, and not really wanting to play, but showing me an understanding of carrying the "10" that I have not seen before


Daddy taking the big girls to the pool, and leaving me to only put the baby to bed



Coloring the baby's "playhouse" with the baby while she jabbers on about the airplanes and birds she hears


Tomorrow is Saturday and I don't have to be anywhere


Peace,

Amy