Lord, will this day never end?

Originally I thought of calling this post "Lord, help me get through the day", but then I thought the issue isn't so much as the days being hard, just very, very long. Since Lucas is home for the Christmas holidays, I don't get a break when Liam sleeps (I'm busy entertaining Lucas). That coupled with the fact that Liam is back to waking up at 5:00am is enough to do me in.

I've tried to do something with them every day, so they are both busy and today was grocery-shopping. Lucas was very helpful. He was bringing in a gallon of milk from the car and it slipped, cracked half open and spilled everywhere in the garage (at least not inside!). Our neighbor had to conduct an emergency evacuation of her baby since he had wandered over to check out what we were doing and he is allergic to..well..anything you can think of. In short, milk everywhere was not good for him.

I had cleverly put a load of baby clothes in the wash before we went to the grocery and Lucas helpfully turned off the washing machine as soon as we came back...It wasn't finished...I had to redo the wash...Is today Monday??

But all is well, I did get a chance this week to thumb through an O magazine while gobbling my lunch. I noticed an ad for an Olay face cream. I normally don't read those, but this had lovely words like, "..gives you a firmer, lifted look without taking drastic measures", "..helps restore elasticity and micro-sculpts.." Really?? Hmmm.. I wonder if it works on boobs?

Happy holidays everyone!

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