Spiritus truths

I WILL write everyday!  Even if it's only a few sentences!

So instead of telling you something about my eldest or youngest child, I will tell you about my day.  It is my 7th child's 11th birthday.  (Which is why I am only just now getting to my journal, and also why I am making it VERY brief.  You can thank me later.)

So I spent my day washing dishes by hand (since our dishwasher is broken--but the repair guy is coming here tomorrow--for the 3rd time), making home made Italian sausage with fresh herbs from our garden, and making cake and baking pizzas for our daughter's birthday dinner. 

I think she had a good day, though.  So I'm not sorry to have been unable to complete my "to do" list, which includes the following:

1) Finish cleaning out the fridge (which I started yesterday),
2) grade my son's Algebra II lesson (he's doing a bit of summer school),
3) EXERCISE (that really hurts),
4) purge my email some more (I'm now under 500 in my inbox)
5) work on the stacks/boxes of papers that desperately need sorting and organizing (I even bought file boxes MONTHS ago for just such a purpose),
6) write in my online journal (wait, I'm actually DOING that!)
7) work on the children's story I started writing
8) read another essay by G.K. Chesterton ( a personal goal of mine for the summer).

HOWEVER, I have had at least 2 glasses of wine, so it was a good night.