Vicious Cycles

I suspect that I would be happier about a day off of school for the kids today if it were warm and sunny and I felt like doing something. Instead it is again, foggy, smoggy and very very cold. Even the fog is icy. But I still have laundry to do.

In fact, I just tried to go put natural gas in the little Honda this morning and it is too cold to get more than half a tank. Dang it. So, it is about a week into a yucky inversion and the air quality is in the red zone (so, bad) and my little mini-emissions car can't be completely filled because it is too cold because of the inversion. Vicious cycle!

I went to bed at my regular time last night, about 10 PM after a long day of church stuff. It was all good, however, so I am happy to do it. I learn a lot when I go in with a positive attitude. Anyway, I am not sure what happened, but by about 11:30 Genius Golfer came into bed after some racket in the hallway outside our door. Then for the next, oh, I don't know, hour or so, there was quite a spirt of highly dramatic crying and wailing and probably gnashing of teeth (though I couldn't hear that) from The Girl's room. Let's hope this is only PMS and we can move on to regular behavior next week.

This morning when I got up, The boy's bedroom door was pulled all the way closed, so the melodrama next door must have bothered him too.

The school holiday is certainly a good idea, but these people still need some semblance of normalcy and with that, sleep! When I tell them to go to bed, they respond with "There is no school" but I want to remind them "Yes, but I will pay for your orneriness all day tomorrow, thankyouverymuch!" It is a school holiday cycle: want to play, stays up late, ornery, mom is annoyed at your orneriness!

I am hoping there will be lots of CHANGE ushered in tomorrow. We'll just have to wait and see. I guess, worst case scenario, change will only bring trouble with unintended consequences which will drive us all to want a different change and then the whole thing starts over again. Plus there is that little inauguration too. Vicious cycles.