Tuesday morning.

We've got a busy week ahead of us.

As I mentioned in my most recent post - we're taking care of Ida, Charles and Lee for the week while their folks are at a conference at Orlando. Sharon gave us a very detailed list of their schedules for the week. Luckily, Lee and Charlie are on the same football team (as also noted in last time's post.) so they can get picked up at the same time each day from practice. Late, but at the same time.
That's Paul's job. My job is getting Ida to school on time. (She goes to a different school from the boys.) In the afternoon, I'll pick her up and see that we stop at their house so she gets her chores done: to feed the cats and the chickens.

So - the boys had to be up at 6 AM, and Ida at 6:30. Before we went to bed last night, Paul set the alarm for us for 5:30. But he forgot to put it on and it didn't go off. Luckily, we woke up at 6:15. Jumped out of bed. The boys were up and dressed already. Paul started breakfast - toaster waffles and pre-cooked sausages. I took over as he took Gracie out. Thank goodness the boys are at an age to take responsibility. At home they need a little nudge, Sharon said. But being in a different place, under different circumstances, helped. This morning, Charles even toasted an english muffin for himself before we got out to the kitchen.

Ida got up on time. I even braided her hair - but not as well as her mother does, and so a front section fell over her face. She was very polite about the whole thing, but I could see she wasn't happy. We didn't have any bobby pins, so she said, could we stop home and get some? By now, the boys and Paul had left to meet their ride to their school. Right on time. And believe it or not, we girls were right on schedule too. So on the way to her school, we stopped at the house, which is two minutes from her school. She ran upstairs, got some bobby pins and we got to school with two minutes to spare.

Now we have five bobby pins for tomorrow. Pretty nifty.

We both took a nap in our chairs.