The Queen's Rambles

Elsa decided to take a little nap at 7 pm last night, which meant she didn’t go to real bed until almost midnight. Dumb, dumb parents. Why did we let her do that? Except, what are you supposed to do when she walks over, puts a boppy and a blanket on your lap and assumes the sleep position? And screams hysterically if you don’t let her sleep?

Remember all the fun times of Erik screaming hysterically when we tried to force him to sleep? Such different children.

I woke up at 6 this morning and finally got out of bed at 6:30. I’m just too excited and nervous about the first day of kindergarten! Erik is so excited that he’s buzzing. Literally. Buzzing noises won’t stop coming out of his mouth.

He was all dressed and ready to go, but I had to make him do a costume change. What do you want your kid to wear the first day of school? Something nice, right? He picked out his karate t-shirt, which is about 4 sizes too big. I don’t know how I managed to finesse him into a shirt with buttons, but with a lot of cajoling it worked. It will be the first and only day the child wears my idea of a nice shirt to school. Gotta give a mama something on the first day, right?

We’ve been ready to go to the bus for at least 20 minutes and we have another 40 minutes before the bus arrives. I suppose it won’t always be this easy, but it’s nice to get off to a slow start.

Thankfully they didn’t cancel school. There are about 8 schools in the district without power, but they just cancelled those specific schools instead of shutting down the whole district. I think Erik and I both would have gone insane if he couldn’t go to school today. I love the boy with everything I’ve got, but he can be so very intense. I think we’ve both been on each others last nerves the last week or so.

According to Erik, the hurricane didn’t to any damage to our place because of his double yolker. His teacher is going to be so confused if he starts trying to explain this to her. We made “hurricane cookies” because he was really sad about not being invited to a hurricane party next door. He cracked open the first egg and two yolks fell out. I told him he was lucky because double yolkers are really rare. He is now convinced his double yolker luck is what single handedly kept the hurricane from killing us all.

I told him double yolkers are from old hens, but he didn’t really get that part. He keeps saying that he is lucky because of his old pigeon double yolker.

I suppose kindergarten teachers must be confused all the time. They must learn to just nod and smile.

What else? I am very anxious to get my sewing machine back. The repairman said the bobbin case was severely damaged and he had to order a new one so it will take a couple of weeks.

Erik was annoying me by digging around in my chair yesterday. I just wanted to sit down, but he was convinced I was hiding something from him in the chair. Why? WHY? I have no freakin’ clue.

Guess what he found! A camera that’s been missing for several months! It had several pictures on it, but now I remember why I wasn’t sad when this camera went rogue. Nary a good picture on the whole thing. I really love my new camera (Sony Cybershot). If only the kids would keep their stinkin’ little greasy fingers off the lens.

Guess I better go double check everything. I have butterflies in my stomach!