The most productive days

Around 4:15am on Thursday morning Mister woke me up for a little snack. As I lay there surprisingly awake I suddenly remembered that I was hosting preschool co-op this morning. Yikes! I can't even walk in the homeschool room let alone have someone teach a class in there. That settled it, time to get up. Here is what the room looked like at 4:30am.

I grabbed my ipad and put on "Tommy Boy" to keep me company (read awake) as I cleaned. By 6:30am the room looked like this.

See I had gone to bed on Wednesday night (if you recall in an heap of exhaustion surrounded, this time by nacho remnents and an empty glass of wine.) thinking that I wasn't going to leave the house and I'd have all day to work on school, clean, and prepare for Little Flowers which I was to teach that night.

So remembering that I had preschool not only meant I had to clean before 10am but that I wouldn't be able to do school or work on Little Flowers activities until the afternoon. Blah. So at 6:30am I head upstairs for my first cup of coffee and I was greeted with Mr. Sloth who with blurry eyes asked what time I got up. After seeing the homeschool room for himself he and I agreed that it was worth getting up at 4:30am.

Ten minutes later we were changing diapers, getting children dressed and starting breakfast when Mr. Sloth announced that Happy had a 101 fever. This means there won't be preschool here this morning. I logged onto our yahoo group to see that 99% of the boys in the preschool group had fevers. That settles it, no preschool today. Now before you think, "Oh no! You got up early to get ready for preschool!" Just know that I was super excited at this point. The room was cleaned I now had all day to work on things since we definately weren't going anywhere and the added bonus is that with a sick child you don't feel so guily turing on the magical box. The great mysterious thing about homeschooling is that sick days are work days and snow/sunny days are fun days. It's a pretty sweet system.
 
Demand and I had fun all day getting ready for Little Flowers. The saint this month was St. Joan of Arc and the virtue "fortitude". We got to work coming up with costumes for the skit.

Here is d Demand dressed as St. Catherine of Siena since she appeared to St. Joan of Arc.

Since St. Joan of Arc held a cross as she died. I thought the girls could make stuffed crosses to hold when they are scared or in need of fortitude.

St. Joan of Arc costume. She is wearing her St. Helen costume from Halloween/All Saints Day but we made a fire out of cardboard, toilet paper rolls, and tissue paper. Then there is a cardboard wrapping paper rolls that is down the back of her shirt. Demand thought that was pretty funny.

Then we made banners that were like the one St.Joan carried. We know that it said "Jesus, Mary" on the banner and tradition often shows Fleur de Lis on it as well. Thankfully with my cricut I can crank out 40 Fleur de Lis in no time. Then the girls were to glue an icon of  St. Joan and her motto and write "Pray for Us!"

I could have kept planning but decided to stop for the day. I was able to make a delicious, healthy, and gluten free meal. (More on that tomorrow) Bacon wrapped pork loin with broccoli/green beans/ brussel sprouts. It was yummy!

Mr. Sloth came home early so Demand and I could leave by 5:10. It's a long meeting, we didn't get home until 9pm. What a long day.  Today is looking less exhausting though.  Later, I'll tell you about  "the diet challenge."