The early bird gets the worm...but who wants worms anyways?

Day 3 – Friday Oct 10

“Early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”….is I believe how the saying goes but I have yet to become a believer. Nevertheless, duty called at about 6 am (sigh). And another thing that made this particular rising a bit more painful than any other early morning was that at about 2am the night before I heard a knocking at my door which I mistook for part of a dream for awhile, then realized it was real but wondered if it was one of the kids and I should just ignore it and then realized no, whoever was knocking had a mission and he/she was not leaving. Turns out it was John and a water pipe had broken outside somewhere and he needed to shut the water off via the pump in my closet. Apparently it was flooding somewhere outside but by the time morning came around the ground was covered in snow. Just before lunch time we all attempted to go out and play in the new snow but the attempt was not so successful. First 30 minutes or so of trying to locate coats, gloves, boots etc and I sent the 2 girls on their way. Joseph took a bit longer to get ready and by the time he and I were out the door, Magdalena was hungry and on her way back in. So I entrusted Joseph to Marietta and helped Mags get undressed without making too much of a mess, got some food for her and headed back outside just in time for Joseph to fall down the steps bust his lip….and that was the end of that! It was nothing a chocolate chip cookie couldn’t fix :)
During lunch Marietta asked me why I always smiling which of course made me smile. I thought it was super sweet of her and said that it was good to smile. The kids are all really sweet.
That night we all played a bit in the basement, John was a big scary monster and the girls kept running to me to save them. In the end it was piggy back rides upstairs for night prayer and bed. Again I was pooped.