Work hard play hard

It's a work-work-work morning at home... from down the hall the kids are already fighting... BANG BANG BANG goes Yali's fist on the bathroom door... “PATIENCE! GET OUT OF THERE! I HAVE TO DO MY HAIR!”...

Several minutes later Patience arrives in my room to “inform” on the harassment before sitting at the table with a plate of breakfast and an Irish lesson on her tablet before leaving for the studio...

In a misty late morning Puck also leaves to hang out with J in O'Fallon...

...while Yali and I began scooping up junk in the basement... could use a steam shovel down there...

Skip forward to lunch – tortilla chips and Red Cactus queso dip – finishing the last episode of the latest season of “Doctor Who”...

Kids to the park for rock-climbing zip-lining with “Dad” while “Mama” sits by the peach trees and magnolia trees with Martin Luther's sermons...

And then it's evening and while Oxbear prepares turmeric rice on the stove... Yali is chasing Rose around the house with one of his dirty socks pulled over one hand like a sock puppet... “STAWWWP IT!”...