I am so not cut out for this

I knew things would not go well when the day started out late - it's Monday, dh slept later than normal so I didn't get a shower before he left.

The baby got tired earlier than normal and then woke up after only 1/2 hour. Stayed cranky until I finally put him down again 1 1/2 hours later. Woke up early from that nap too! This wouldn't be a problem, except I plan certain parts of our schooling for nap time so when those don't come when/how I expect, it's hard to juggle.

Math was hard for Rose - she sat there for an hour getting through only 4 problems. Well, most of it was her staring off into space, not actually DOING the problems. :-P

Skye, who can write pages upon pages of her own stories, had a crying fit over being asked to write a short page from the perspective of a gold nugget, even after I walked her through all of it. This is her usual reaction when I ask her to write ANYTHING that has perameters that I set (about characters, etc).

I'm hungry - there's plenty of food in the house but it's all stuff the baby reacts to, or bad for me (like Saltines and Oreos, which I'm eating my share of anyway, because like I said, I'm hungry!).

The littles are just haning around wanting to do nothing...nothing but interrupt and annoy each other! Then they accidentally toppled a rocker/recliner that narrowly missed the baby.

Just now a pushy salesman came to the door, I only answered it because our front door was open to give our dark little house some sunlight. I had to be much pushier than usual - the last thing I want to do is slam a door in his face (although he admitted that all the neighbors did! ROFL!!) but it almost came to that. I was anxious *before* he came to the door, by the time I was done with him and the door shut, I was in tears. (Just in time to hug my dd who was now in tears over her work).

I just called school for the day because none of us are working too well -- when half of us are in tears, what's the point! But what about all the talk I just did about doing things even when they are hard? Out the window, I guess.

BUT - we started a new read aloud -- The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates, and we are already drawn in and loving it.

BUT - there was a cool summer storm that came in hurry from out of nowhere and disappeard just as fast.

BUT - I caught a glimpse of a bright red cardinal framed against the green of my neighbors' small tree. So perfect.

BUT - I made Jeffrey some fresh peach puree with cereal and he devoured it.

AND - in a few hours my beloved will come home, and we can enjoy round two of the yummy dinner my mother made last night (sloppy joes - mine without tomato - and stuffed zucchini - mine without cheese...but still yummy and I didn't have to cook it!). We all had a grand time calling them Sloppy Jeffrey's. ;-)

I known I'm not cut out for this, but maybe we'll all survive just fine, anyway.