H vs the Mominator

Have kept H home today. Doc says she is run down and could use a day of rest at home. Every morning it is a fight to get her up. Wrestling an alligator, pah, try getting an 8 year old dead weight log up and worse ...dressed. I pull the blankets off start to dress her and she does the “snatch, lift and turn” (grab a piece of blanket place it between knees or elbows , lift and half turn.over the blanket. this secures the blanket is locked firmly under and over you..I do this with D when I am freezing. He is hairy and his furry body will eventually adjust to the sub zero temp in our room. Like my room cold and the bed warm.)


NB I do not dress her very often as she is a big girl now and can do it herself but there are days if we want to get to school before her 15th bdy I dress her. sometimes I offer sweets for breakfast or money if they get dressed now and get to the kitchen table. when they get to the table and ask for their rewards I pretend I have no idea what they are talking about. they must have heard wrong, I didn't say money or sweets, I said honey or beets. sorry about the miscommunication but at least you are here at the table...2 more pennies in the pot..one for each .
So she does the snatch and turn before I can get half my body over her and lock my arms around her legs to stop this movement. Sometimes I win, sometimes I win better. Sometimes that “Carole Brady.(..from the Brady Bunch) persona that I aspire to just gets thrown out the window and the survivor in me takes over. The one that has to get to the goal no matter what...NO matter what. The “MOMINATOR”
All lights on, curtains open, window open. All blankets off, all stuffies off, all pillows off. Anything out of arms reach that will keep her warm and snugly in the bed. She will use anything she can to win this battle.
I think not. She has no idea who she is up against. The mominator has no compassion in the morning. I WAS EXACTLY THE SAME GROWING UP. Could stay up all night and sleep all day. I know all the tricks plus some. she cannot snow me.
Anyway because today she CAN sleep in, she is up at 7am with me. I don’t get it T is the same way. Can’t wake him up til the very last moment yet 7 am on Saturday morning he is downstairs watching cartoons. Why?> Why can’ t they get up at 7 am during the week. It would make everything so much easier. That’s why. Cause it is easier.
She was good today. Played on the computer doing math games. She must be ill she was actually quiet today...until tonight when she will be filled with beans.
Am tired today. It’s raining. So what else is new. I have been staying up late trying to finish the first half of my short story which is not so short cause I write more than I talk cause no one is interrupting me.
2 more sleeps til the Todd concert. Am soooo excited. Tomorrow I bake and bake and bake til the cookies are perfect. The kids will be the tasters. They don’t mind.


have to make a decent dinner now, D is back in town.