Good morning!

Well...I did not get any of the things done that I wanted to last night.

I fell asleep. The kind of sleep that just reaches up and grabs you and pulls you under. I had Aria in my lap (snuggling up before bed) and Roan snuggling next to me on the couch. Next thing I know, it's 45 minutes later, Larry is gently picking Aria up to put her in bed because she's crashed, and I can barely do much more than flop around because I was so deeply asleep. Larry sent me to bed. Boy was I thankful I had made the bed! I remember sitting down in bed, but not laying down. I was out. But I woke up before the alarm today, feeling pretty refreshed. One minute before, but still.

Thankfully we rescheduled the Officer's Meeting that was supposed to be for this afternoon, to Thursday.

I did not get my day four flylady task done yesterday, but I'm going to do it this morning (skipping the shower today) and then add in day five flylady task at some point. Today's task is to write down negative thoughts. Truthfully, I haven't had many. While I didn't expect to crash as hard as I did last night, I knew when I sat down after dinner that I wouldn't get my sink shiny, and I was OK with that. This weekend's schedule makes it hard to work around, and I have to forgive myself for that. And I did. And as an unexpected surprise, I woke up to find that the sink WAS shiny. DH had done the dishes, and cleaned out the sink. There is one pan in there that needed soaking and apparently wouldn't fit in the dishwasher, but I can live with that. This tells me that he understands what I'm trying to do with flylady, and gets that it's important to me. Yay Larry. He doesn't like living in chaos any more than I do.

WE also had a little chat about me possibly working full time. See, Lynn (the admin asst for the Bon Carbo Fire Department) and I went to a grant class last month, specifically for the Assistance to Firefighters Grant. Our District hasn't done a lot in terms of grant writing, and everyone thinks it's a good idea to expand that. What hasn't been decided is whether to go outside for grant writing, or to keep it in house. The board seemed open to either possibility, and are looking at outside sources to determine cost, etc. Our Chief wants it kept in house. He knows a bit about grant writing, and understands that even if we go outside for grant writing, Lynn and I will still be doing a lot of work on the grants-putting information together, contributing to narratives, etc. His thoughts are, if we're going to be doing this work anyway, we should be writing the grants. So a grant writing workshop is being offered at TSJC, and even if the board goes outside, I think we should take the class. Our board President agreed, conditional on the Chief's agreement, and he said to go for it, when we talked about it last night, and that's when he said he wants to keep it in house. So if we go that route, I will have more hours, with some of them specifically directed to grant writing. I wasn't sure I wanted to work full time, but I feel I'm being led in that direction anyway.

Well, Aria is awake and we are going to go make French Toast for breakfast. They really want Dutch Babies, but I have bread I need to use up, so French Toast it is. The Modern Traditional Wife is nothing if not frugal, so we're using up that bread rather than throwing it away!

Have a blessed day!