Wednesday, June 9, 2010

A busy, busy day


The day began at 5 am with a text message stating that the 18 year old had caught a mouse in the basement and accidentally disemboweled it. With a bowl. Both bowl and mouse were spending their demise in a non despcript bag in a garbage pail outside the house.
At 6:15 am, little B woke up with an urgent need to use the facilities and an inability to get out of bed.
At 7 am, the laundry got started.
At 7:15 am, the exterminator was called and an appointment set for 6:30 pm.
At 8 am, Simone tried to do some writing.
At 9 am, the 12 year old was brought to school.
At 9:15 am, Simone met the 18 year old as he biked back from rowing and gave him some last minute instructions for babysitting little B. "But I want to go with you," protested little B.
At 9:25 am, Simone lured little B into the backyard with a bright pink soccer ball and then, having left him under the dubious supervision of the 18 year, tiptoed out the front door.
At 9:30 am, Simone signed the visitors' book at the school where she was scheduled to discuss little B's start of school in September with three other people.
At 9:32 am, Simone was schocked to find out that there were in fact 11 other people at the meeting.
At 11 am, Simone went home and berated the 18 year old for failing to begin lunch. The 18 year old went to take a shower.
At 12:15 pm, Simone took the 18 year old to a comic book store. "This way you know that I'm not drinking when I'm away at university," he grinned after spending a small fortune on comic books. "I spend all my money on these."
Hmmmm...
At 1:30 pm, Simone finished the laundry.
At 2 pm, Simone made a tomato and avocado salad.
At 3 pm, Simone's mother in law said she didn't feel very well.
At 4 pm, little B at his dinner.
At 4:25 pm, Simone took little B to the corner store for a slushy.
At 4:32 pm, Simone wandered around a gym, trying to find three empty seats for little B, the 18 year old and herself. Finally, she found someone willing to share their table. But they only had two seats available. Simone tried to entice little B to sit on her lap but he refused to share so she sat on the floor. At least she had a perfect view of the Grade 6 grads from there.
At 6:30 pm, Simone took a very cranky, very covered in creamy chocolate cake little B home where they watched an episode of Blues Clues.
At 6:45 pm, Simone's mother in law complained of increasing stomach pain and that her hernia was back. Upon inspection, this appeared to be very true. Combined with other symptoms of vomiting and inability to void, this made Simone order her mother in law to get her health card and meds ready to leave for the hospital within two hours.
At 7:15 pm, little B's bedtime routine began.
At 8:15 pm, Simone was on her way to the hospital with her mother in law.
At 11:30 pm, Simone's mother in law was wheeled into the operating room for an emergency hernia operation.
At 12 am... oh, wait... that's the next day...

2 comments:

Michael Mullady said...

wow...what a day! I hope your mother in law is ok!

Simone Maroney said...

Yep, it was a busy day indeed. Fortunately, my mother-in-law has recuperated nicely and is doing well!