Friday the 13th

I'm not a superstitious person, but after I arrived at work this morning (late), I realized why our morning got off to such a dismal start. Yep...it's Friday the 13th...ooooh...bad luck!

I found a dying hen this morning, and tonight our flock is down to 8. Dealing with it took up most of my exercise time this morning, and cleaning out the coop took up much of my evening.

L appeared to get up in a lovely mood, which is rare. After being up for about an hour, it was apparent that she got a bee in her bonnet somehow, and was a pain in the *&%$ all day. By dinner time, she had already had some possessions confiscated, forced to have a nap/quiet time, and was perilously close to being kept home from Roller Skating tomorrow. In mere seconds, she managed to get put to bed without dinner (although JP did take her down a bowl of rice later on) AND definitely get kept home from Skating. It broke my heart to hear her sobbing downstairs, crying "Dada, why do you hate me? Mommmmmmmyyyyyy pleeeeeeease come downstairs, please come downstairs, please come downstairs! You only love your GOOD daughter. I'm having a TERRIBLE day!" The poor little twit is sleeping soundly now, and hopefully the pesky bee will fly away when we turn the calendar page!

I had a rough day at work, and was hoping to have an easy afternoon (except for the cleaning of the chicken coop). Mom and the girls, however, had trouble with school today: computers weren't cooperating, L hid one of J's school books, L made a huge mess that had to be cleaned up, etc, etc. Consequently, we had some school work to finish up once I got home (late).

The puppy spent 5 hours in her kennel today while I was at work without having an accident, but peed on a rug less than an hour after being taken outside. I haven't seen Ernie Cat for several days.

I just finished up over an hour of charting that I didn't stick around to complete at the office. I also finished baking a double batch of Vanilla Chai Cupcakes for the Roller Skating Birthday Party tomorrow.

Here's looking forward to a GREAT Saturday the 14th!