cat named pig

Times I wiped Elliot’s nose today: 9,937

Times Siena cried real, actual tears over snacks at the coffee shop: 3

Years of age Siena will have attained on her next birthday: 5 (In other words, too old to cry over snacks.)  

Combined total number of loads of laundry and dishes I washed today (sorry, Earth, about the water): 7

Loads of laundry dried in our broken dryer, which makes a screeching sound like the eagle at the MN Zoo’s Bird Show, only repeated every four seconds for an entire dry cycle or until my brain shuts down from the agony: at least four, but not enough because there’s still a pile of wet clothes down there and nothing we can do about it since Elliot just went to bed.

Calories consumed: unfathomably many.

Suitcases and/or duffel bags packed: 0 (Unfortunate, since Matt and I leave for Michigan tomorrow morning.)

Alcoholic beverages consumed: 3 (Broken down by type: One beer, after talking to my pregnant best friend about beer [the friend we are going to see in Michigan -- oh, and sorry, Heather, for drinking a beer while you can't and then bragging about it online] and two glasses of wine because who wants to leave a half-empty bottle of wine sitting around while you go out of town?)

Reasons I am not packing right now: 3 (See above for exact breakdown.) 

Number of movies Siena watched today: 2.5 (I had to shower, then I had writing group, then I had to pack update my blog drink wine because I am stressed about packing.)

Number of stories Matt just read to Elliot: 5

Number of chapters of a chapter book my big gigantic almost-kindergartener will request that I read to her: All of the chapters in the book, plus all of the chapters in another book as well.

Number of chapters I will actually read: 1

Percentage of day that I felt frustrated and/or stressed about having too much to do: 95%

Percentage of trip I will spend missing the kids (runny noses, whining and all): 100%.