The Miller Family: It's Time to Slow Down

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

It's Time to Slow Down

After my busy week last week, we still haven't slowed down. Friday night the boys spent the night with our friends Kelli and Steve. Their son, Aiden had been asking for someone to spend the night with him, so Kelli invited the boys to stay the night. On Saturday Clarence and I did some shopping. He got a new pair of Z-Coils and I got a new laptop. We decided to have lunch while we were out and ate at Longhorns. It was so nice to enjoy a meal, just the two of us. While we were out, we also got presents for my Father and Logan's birthdays. When we got home, I wrapped the presents and Clarence started setting up my laptop. Later on in the evening, we went to Kelli and Steve's to watch the UFC fights. It was so nice to hang out with friends and just enjoy their company. But, it was another late night added to my string of late nights that week. Sunday would have been a nice day to rest, but not this one. We were invited to a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese at 9:30 Sunday morning. Nine.Thirty. Hmp! It would have been nice to get to sleep a little later. Anyway, we took the boys and they had a blast, as usual. Then after CEC, we went to my parents' house to celebrate my Daddy's birthday. We had lunch at Logan's, and then after visiting with my parents a bit, we came home. We watched Puss In Boots with the boys and then headed to bed.

This week hasn't slowed down one bit though. Monday afternoon Clarence called me and asked where the closest hospital was that he could go to for insurance purposes. After I told him I asked him why he needed to know. Well, he cut his thumb while at work and felt he probably needed stitches. So, to the ER he went. Oh but before he could do that... Despite leaving work early, because of traffic, I was afraid I wouldn't make it to pick the boys up before aftercare closed. So, when I was talking to Clarence he said he had just passed the school and asked if he should go back and get them. I told him to go ahead just in case (all the while his thumb was wrapped with bandaids and a paper towel to contain the bleeding). So, I ended up going to the ER too to get the boys from him. It turns out that he didn't get stitches. He ended up with glue and steri-strips and a prescription for pain pills. Tuesday afternoon I got a call from the boys' aftercare telling me that Isaac's glasses got broken while he was playing outside. Turns out that another little boy actually hit Isaac in the face and broke his glasses. He has three small cuts by his eye. Anyway, Clarence picked him up that day and took him to get new glasses. Conveniently, it was time for him to get another eye exam anyway, and since his prescription changed, he would have needed new lenses anyway. So, today I had to take him back to pick up the new frames.

After all that... I think it is time to slow down. Tomorrow I want to take the boys to school, go to work, leave work, pick the boys up from aftercare and then come home and do our usual routine. Nothing extra. It seems like here lately I'm only getting about half as much accomplished as I would like to. It's starting to get on my nerves.