Ahhhh....

The first day of S-215 at Spanish Peaks is almost over, and it went off without a hitch! Yay!

Larry and I got there at 7, and two of our aux members were already there setting up breakfast. Well, I take that back, there was one hitch, the big coffee pot that Larry thought he fixed blew the fuse in the outlet it was plugged into. But we improvised, and used the two little coffee pots to make two coffee pots at a time to fill the huge carafe. Breakfast went well, class started, and I left to come home with the kiddoes.

I did a bit of crisis cleaning, because, well, that is a long story. But it went really well and achieved what I needed it to, and my sink is shiny and will be easy to shine after dinner. I do still need to write down my reminders for today's baby steps assignment.

Then I went back to the station to serve lunch. That also went off without a hitch. I was just getting ready to make my food and Larry comes in with a report of an unauthorized controlled burn in town. So we took care of that, and I made my food in between status checks while they made sure the fire was out. Didn't take too long before they were clear of scene.

I'm sitting down eating, and they get ready to start again, so I get up to move into the kitchen (I'd been chatting with the firefighters while I was eating) and one of the instructors requested that I stay. I stayed for awhile, helping make copies and taking a lot of notes (about pre incident and arrival size up, very useful things for me to know as dispatcher, because it helps me to help them get the resources they need). But then I had to go cause I needed to come back home and check on everyone, and relieve Aimee, who graciously agreed to babysit with them, but hadn't agreed to an extended period of time! I feel kind of bad about leaving, but I had to. I did ask Larry to see if I could have a book, though, cause it seems there's some useful info in there, and we ordered more than we had people show up.

I'll go back after dinner to clean up in the kitchen, and set out the non perishables for breakfast, because I'm not sure who all is coming in to help tomorrow for breakfast. This way I can concentrate on getting coffee ready and stuff like that. I will still have to actually put everything on trays and stuff, but at least it will be out and ready, saving me a few steps.

Today I'm going to do a few sessions of decluttering. I actually enjoy that. This morning while we were crisis cleaning the kids each did two, 15 minute sessions in their rooms. You can't see much of a difference in the boy's room yet, but the girls' room looks great. Of course, Aimee has been working on it for several days prior. But they didn't feel pressured and neither did I, even though we were doing crisis cleaning. Oh and one more session in the kitchen, so I can clean the counters. Then the whole kitchen will be shiny. That's it. Three, maybe four more sessions of cleaning and I'm calling it a day. I'll have plenty of time to study for my FEMA class. Yay me!

Hope you're having a blessed day!