Woke up this morning and started making a chore list for my new nanny/housekeeper. Because she keeps doing stuff like cleaning out the kids' closets while ignoring things like making the kids pick up their books from the middle of the living room floor and loading the dishwasher. I like her and I hope that everything will work out if I give her a little (ok, a lot) more direction.
Picked up around the house a bit and paid some bills.
The twins have a science fair project that has to be related to Earth Day. I really wanted to do something with worm composting, so we went out looking for worms. No luck finding worms and they are $30/lb on the internet, so we decided to switch gears. SS bought 3 tomato plants, and we are going to have one control, play Foo Fighters to one and read to the other to see which grows the best. TT bought a six-pack of marigolds and we are going to water them with tap water, baking soda water, sugar water and salt water to see which grows best. Sounds easy enough, but we have spent the last two hours setting up our experiments and recording initial observations.
There are certain times when having twins is a PITA* (most of the time it rocks!) One of those times is when we have to do school projects times 2. I don't want to cop out and let them do the exact same thing, so we always have to come up with two different projects. I think the science fair project is a great way to spend time with the kiddos--but it is very time consuming to have to set up two different projects at once.
And PS is leaving for a 3-day outdoor-education camp with her class tomorrow. She has supposedly been packing, but when I asked her to show me the clothes that she is taking, she had picked out her nicest jeans and plaid shorts and polos that look more suitable at boarding school than camp. Oh, and half the clothes she packed are dirty--arrggghhh. So now we are frantically doing laundry to get her packed. How is this possible? I think I was packed 3 weeks ahead of time whenever I went to camp!
I have some work projects that I need to take a look at, but so far my day has been consumed with kid stuff. But it's ok-I've been working a lot lately and the kids needed the mommy time. I'm sure missing that lost hour, though.
*The other times it is a PITA to have twins is when the work together for evil. Like when they were toddlers and somehow managed to always turn on their light after bedtime, even though the switch was at least 2 feet out of reach, and there was nothing in their room that they could use as a tool to reach it. I think that one was standing on the other's back, but I will never know for sure.
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