Middle America's Worldview

I was able to get Monday over with, finally. Yeah, its nearly 12 a.m. est.

Work wasn't too bad today. I was able to get some things done and accomplished. I only had one conference call, that always help. Afterward, I ran our son to speech therapy then a doc's appointment. We then ran by Walmart on the way home. Kel had the supper ready and we feasted. I had a School Board Meeting tonight at 6:30 local time. I managed to eat, clean the kitchen and start the dishwasher, throw the kids in a bath before I left. The meeting ended nearly 9 p.m. It ended up a long meeting. Sounds busy but my wife had a busier one. She had to do vacation bible school and afterwards take 3 kids (ours and one more) to basketball. She then took care of our daughter and friend, while I was gone with our son's running, till the friends mom showed up. Then while I was at the meeting till 9, the kids evidently did not let her do any work. They hit the bed when I arrived back home.

That was pretty much today. This weekend was pretty much the same busy-ness.

We arrived in town Friday night around 5:30 p.m. Once we entered the home, we were abruptly attacked with fleas. Unbelievable. Where did these come from? We immediately started to call exterminators. Fortunately we found one nearly 6 p.m. Making arrangements, the guy would come over Saturday morning. No way we could sleep there tonight. We didn't even unload our stuff. We drove over to Kel's parents house and all 4 of us spent the night over there. Not really what we wanted to come home to, but better to a burnt or damaged house.

The next morning, Kel and I ran back to the house, leaving the kids at Nana's and Papa's. I mowed the yard, dipped the cats and dogs before the guy showed up. I told him to spray everything and do whatever it takes. We had them exterminate the house and yard. Kel and I had to hang with the cats out of the house for about 2 hours allowing the poison to settle and let the fleas scream to death. After she and I went back in and actually tried to relax, microwaving a burrito for lunch, we ended up with headaches.

We took off for a bit and came back home for that night. It was better after awhile. We ended up cleaning top to bottom as far as we could till around 10 p.m and crashed.

Sunday morning we finished cleaning everything. Wiping down every room, vacuuming again and mopping we totally cleaned the place. I think we ran the crazy washer and dryer for nearly 10 hours.

We went to church that Sunday night and crashed that night.

Regardless, it is nice to be home. It was so nice to see green as we passed into the states from Arizona. We get to do the exterminator thing again in 14 days, right before we head off to Pennsylvania for one week.