Rainy Day Activity List

April showers bring madness, right? Here's how I amuse myself whilst trapped indoors all day with 6 children:

Rainy Day Activity List

1. Put away 3 loads of laundry
2. Hide in bedroom to sneak-read a chapter of The Unforgiving Minute
3. Wash 3 (different) loads of laundry
   
4. Scrub yucky stuff (technical term) off shower doors.
5. Make well-child appointments for 2 out of 6 kids. Put off the other ones until next year.
   
6. Yank sheets off Anna's bed and explain to her that when making the bed, she must remove all objects resting on mattress first.
7. Duck death glare.
8. Condense 6 bags of knitting down to 4. Pile them in corner of bedroom in a half-hearted attempt to "neaten up."
9. Narrowly avert poisoning children with 3-day-old tuna salad.
10. Open fridge and wonder how it gets messed up so fast. I mean, I just cleaned it out.
    

And here is how my children amuse themselves:

1. Ask for something to eat.
2. Race Mardi Gras necklaces down the stairs. (They act sort of like slinkies)
3. Ask what's for dinner.
4. Shriek loudly while I am on the phone with the doctor's office.
5. Ask to go to Target.
6. Hide, hoping I will forget to make them do their math.
7. Ask for lunch.
8. Cry when I snatch their tuna sandwiches away (see #9 on first list).
9. Ask for a movie.
10. Pinch each other.

I know, terribly uncreative. We'll probably end up making cookies. Because, really, I need to gain a few extra pounds...