A Lost Holiay

Today my children were out of school for Columbus Day, fall holiday, whatever you want to call it. It has been an interesting day that is going to end very soon with me sitting on the deck reading Cosmopolitan and eating an entire chocolate pie.

To work off yesterday's pumpkin cakes, I decided I would hit the exercise hard today. I did what should have amounted to 60 minutes of exercise, but it took me all day. This is why...

"Can I have another Band Aid?" Maisy must have asked this question 500 times. She knows there is a new box of Littlest Pet Shop Band Aids in the cabinet, and she is determined to injure herself just enough to use them all in one day.

"Columbus didn't discover America. There were many before him." Yes, Caitlyn, I know you are in a self-righteous, holier-than-thou phase in your life, but I didn't really see you turning down the chance to sleep late, now did I?

"There's a big scary man in the yard!" This one always manages to bring me from whatever I am doing, and as usual, it was Jackson EMC. It always is, or else someone equally harmless like the water man, the garbage man, or even a Boy Scout selling popcorn.

"Can I have another Band Aid?"

"Can I play with your iPhone?" No, no, and no. You might see my grocery list and decide to add a couple hundred dollars worth of snacks to it.

"There's a dead praying mantis on your desk." I was afraid of this this morning when I retrieved Big Fat Greenie from her container. She wasn't looking well, and I thought I'd put her on my desk for a while and see if she would recover. She didn't, so I had to stop my yoga session to conduct a funeral.

"Can I have another Band Aid?"

"How much longer do I have to read?" Well, Chance...you have to read until you finish that book you promised you'd finish before your break is over. Yes, I know the book is 400 pages long. No, I really don't have any sympathy. For the record, he did finish it and is now playing Wii and subjecting me to untold amounts of sports trivia that sounds something like this...

"Mama, did you know that the 2009 Philadelphia Flyers BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH..."

"Can I have a snack?" At last glance, none of my children were starving. I remind them of this fact when I take note that it has only been 27 minutes since the lunch dishes were cleared.

"Can I play with your iPhone?"

"I want to be Bubble Fat (Boba Fett) for Halloween." I admit, this was pretty cute, but if I don't finish this workout sometime today I am going to be Bubble Fat for Halloween, and every other day, too.

Today is going to go down as a loss, I'm afraid. I didn't really have a plan for today and I have paid dearly for that lack of plan. They got the upper hand early today and kept it.

Maybe I need a Band Aid. Nah...just the biggest drink Starbucks offers...that, and a chocolate pie.