Well, Duh!

Robin woke me up early this morning, in tears, saying her head hurt.  She felt a little warm, so we went to the living room to find the "thermonitor".  Slight temp, but otherwise okay.  She snuggled up in the rocky chair, and I re-crashed on the love seat.  Re-got up sometime just before 10:00--which is really late for me. 

Meanwhile, KA9HJP called to say he was on his way to check on the central air conditioning.  He got a meter and determined that there was no power to the unit.  He then checked on the breaker, which was OFF!  I felt like a total idiot!  I mean, every good ham operator knows to check fuses before declaring a radio dead.  What was I thinking????  Apparently the builders turned the breaker off while working on the garage project and didn't turn it on again...and I didn't check that.  DUH!!!  He wouldn't take any money for his gas, so I owe him one.  Thanks, Jim! 

After brunch, I worked on the kitchen while Meg and "Mike Rowe" (from television's Dirty Jobs show--really grandson Ryan) worked at picking up the front of the house.  Since the day was getting away from us, we decided to take the kids and run errands.  Lesson #1:  Never assume that preschoolers will be happy with your decisions.  We went to Splash Island to sign the children up for swimming lessons this summer.  They informed us that they KNEW how to swim.  Lesson #2:  Don't promise hungry children something you can't deliver.  Ryan has been bugging us to eat at the new Red Robin burger place in town, so we were going to go there...but had no idea the place would be packed, with a 30-minute wait, when we arrived.  Ryan had a near-melt-down when we decided to go somewhere else.  (They really were hungry and tired...and semi-cranky.)  Meg parked the car in order for us to decide about it.  Ry finally conceded that it was okay to go somewhere else.  Sheesh!  Lesson #3:  Don't run errands when there are so many other things to do!  We are pooped, and not all that much got done around here!

The children are playing Kinderbells at church tomorrow, then we are having brunch with the other grandparents for Mother's Day.  The lawn needs to be mowed and the laundry remains undone.  Ugh!  I can't wait for school to be over so I can tend to biz at home...