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<\/a><\/p>\nI have taken to smiling thinly and telling people it’s like Groundhog’s Day around here because this is what my schedule has looked like every day even on weekends:<\/p>\n
1) wake at 5:30 take Stella and Heidi out
\n2) feed dogs
\n3) make tea – watch it grow cold as Tin wakes and engages in counter maneuvers to thwart my parenting
\n4) argue with Tin about breakfast
\n5) argue with Tin about getting dressed for camp
\n6) take Tin to camp and listen to him dictate orders for what he wants me to bring when I come get him
\n7) rush back to desk to juggle multiple projects that pay me 1\/10th of what I used to make
\n8) stand at the kitchen counter and wolf down food that I have no interest in eating much less making
\n9) work all afternoon while taking dogs out and feeding them again
\n10) go sit in the car line to pick up Tin from camp
\n11) take Tin to whatever fun thing he is doing and wait for it to be done
\n12) come home and take the dogs out, feed the dogs, and yell at Stella who has chewed something
\n13) feed Tin food he wants and then doesn’t eat, argue about getting in PJs, have a nice moment reading a book
\n14) fall into bed instead of reading the Sunday NYT that are piling up on the coffee table
\n15) read one paragraph of my book and fall asleep with my mouth agape<\/p>\n
But I forgot GRATITUDE:<\/p>\n
So yesterday when the dog sitter for the summer seemed to go awry and I was woken up at 11PM by my neighbor ringing my doorbell who told me my A\/C unit is falling off the back of my house pulling off the side with it and I needed to turn it off so it would quit vibrating, and a thunderstorm of epic proportions erupted wrecking the sleep I was finally getting after fretting about the a\/c unit dangling by one screw, and then if that were not enough when I finally got back to sleep at 3:30 am, the phone rang with a wrong number, I chose instead to be grateful that the rain was keeping it cool enough to get through a night without the A\/C. <\/p>\n