I wish I had some really deep things to write about. Unfortunately, I don’t think my brain goes that deep anymore. Today was a snapshot of the insanity that is life right now.

• Wake up at 7am to Luna who is throwing toys at herself in the crib
• Let her watch some Noggin and Sesame Street while we caught more sleep
• Soleil comes in at 8:30  (amazing!)
• We rested while Daddy goes to decide to get up
• Soleil and Daddy make pancakes (always a laugh, she eats the flour-RAW)
• Luna meltsdown during breakfast. Only giving her bowls of applesauce calm her
• Kick Dr. Jay to the shower, do dishes, convince the girls that instead of hitting each other, they should "count" on the microwave’s touch pad. Whoops! Someone hit the popcorn button and they had a magnet in the microwave. Quickly stop it and remove magnet.
• Change Luna, dress both girls, Leave them with Dr. Jay
• Immediately hear screaming as I start the shower. I used up all of their calm time. Oh well, Dr. Jay can deal
• Decide we HAVE to get out of the house. We decide to go to the Franklin Park Zoo. They have lions there. Soleil is obsessed with the Lion King. Bing bing bing! We have a winner!
• Forget that it is impossible to get to the Franklin Park Zoo (we usually go to the Stone Zoo). Take over an hour to get there.
• Enjoy the zoo for 2-3hours.
• Drive home, Luna passes out in 2 minutes. Discovered we could take 93 home, took 25 minutes to drive back.
• Let the girls play while I put a top coat on the doors*
• Stopped doing the doors so Dr. Jay could have a break.
• Helped play with the girls while dinner was prepared.
• Dinner, aka disaster. Luna decided that rubbing the couscous down her shirt was far more fun than actually eating it, until I offered chicken, at which point, she devored about 2/3 of my chicken breast. Soleil decided she couldn’t eat. She was too busy deciding which halloween candy she would eat.
• Bath time! let’s get rid of that couscous. I read a magazine. Suddenly, Soleil jumps out. I notice some extra stuff in the tub. Oh crap, Luna’s pooped in the tub again. Pull out Luna. Start to clean up, realize this is about a week’s worth of Luna poop. Ask Soleil. yup, Soleil didn’t want to stop playing so she pooped in the tub. (slap head several time here) Clean up while Dr. Jay cleans girls.
• Watch our nighttime tv (Sagwa tonight) and then Luna gets mad that Soleil is eating a KitKat. Sigh… Honey, you are too little for a KitKat, here, have some Joe O’s (bowl is threatened with harm)

• Get Luna to bed. Try to get Soleil to bed. finally loose my cool, Dr. Jay takes over. Submit an abstract for an upcoming meeting…Soleil comes down for more milk…Sigh

Oy, And now it is 9:23, and I am exhausted. I wonder what the heck did I get done today. And then I get annoyed that I can’t come up with creative and thought provoking stuff.
Sigh

I need more chocolate. And better football on TV

*a little known fact, I love DIY projects. Right now, we are replacing our hollow core pine interior doors with 6 panel solid pine doors. We have done 3, I am finishing the staining and sealing of the last 4. We should install them next week. I love real wood. One day, I want to learn enough wood working to do furniture