Squirrely

I stayed up really late last night, after having spent all day at school and then going straight to a middle school track meet with my kids. The meet ran a couple of hours behind and was 1/2 hour from home so by the time the kids fell into bed, it was close to 10:30.

Molly had a field trip to our state capital, Montgomery, yesterday--fourth grade here, being the year of the dreaded state history reports and the state capital trip. She had to be at school yesterday morning at 5:15 a.m. so she and I had awakened at 4:30 so that she'd have time to get ready and download songs on her MP3 player.

I came home last night with the intention of sending out a quick email to all the room moms, outlining the plans about our upcoming teacher appreciation week (which is May 5-9th if you have a teacher you appreciate). Well, by the time I outlined all the details, it was way past my bedtime.

But did I go to bed? NO. I stayed up, looking online for something so important I cannot even remember it now. Imagine that. I didn't get to bed until 5:30 this morning, which means that I was awake for 24 hours straight.

So, is it any surprise that this morning, I turned my alarm off without knowing it and with storms rolling into town today, it was dark outside. Gerald woke me up in a panic saying, "Do you know it's 7:45?!?" Duh, if I knew that, would I still be sleeping? We're supposed to be leaving for school at 7:45. I told him to get ready and I'd bring the kids in late.

After dropping the kids off at school, I was pulling into the drive and I see a squirrel and what I think is another squirrel in the first squirrel's mouth. I stop and stare to no avail because I'm so tired my eyes won't focus that far away. The squirrel is sitting at the bottom of a tree at the property line of us and our neighbors and I'm thinking, "Aren't squirrels vegetarians?" But I'm not really certain if they are and I'm not really certain what the squirrel has in his mouth. But it was something with a tail EXACTLY like the squirrel's that was holding it and the "captured mystery-animal's" tail was moving around like a squirrel's does. At this point, I'm just thinking that I need to go in, chew on a handful of coffee beans and then go back to bed for an hour. As I walk to the front door, I keep staring, craning my neck and squinting my eyes, trying to figure it out. Then, I see my neighbor peer out her window looking at me like she thinks I'm staring at her inside her house; I'm staring at the squirrel-in-a-squirrel. I quickly retreated to the front porch and ran inside.

It's just been the oddest morning. I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode.

Well, my washing machine just kicked on. I set it to delay for an hour so that I could take a hot shower - instead, I've obviously blogged for that hour. I'd better go before storms and lightning start blowing in or the hot water runs out...again. I can't believe I've been sitting here, reading emails and blogs and typing this post for an hour. I think I'll just go back to bed.

Maybe I'll dream about the squirrel...s