I swear, I need to just accept that flying by the seat of my pants is the way to go.

Did I touch my clay yesterday? Nosirreebob. I washed almost everything washable in the house, except for a couple of rugs. I ironed. After that little break I posted about, I ironed all the way up until it was time to make Audrey a sandwich and then drive her to band practice. Then I made dinner. Then hubby and I walked with the pooch. Then I folded more laundry. And I watered the backyard and set the sprinkler for the front. Then I vacuumed the pool, got into my bathing suit, and swam around in the dark in that little 12-foot circle of water by myself for almost an hour. It was lovely. Read some Weird NJ and did my back exercises and then went to bed.

Today. . .well, we had made plans to head up to NY to the Museum of Natural History. My parents wanted to come along. They couldn’t make it. So I was going to take the kids. Hubby wanted to come along, so he took a vacation day. Then he looked at the waning number of days left to do stuff with the kids before school starts, and the cost of the AMNH tickets, and the fact that we already bought tickets for stuff in Seaside, and decided he’d rather we went there. Not much of a protest from the kids, but I think Audrey really wants to go see the Frog Exhibit. With Band Camp starting next week, that gives us Saturdays (not my fave travel to NY day) or Thursday or Labor Day. Ugh.

The expression is “If you want to make god laugh, tell him about your plans.” I don’t believe in god, but there’s some joke in the cosmos about my plans, so I might as well be the one laughing. HA! There ya go, I’m laughing.

It’s all good, though. Cogito writes on her blog about how life seemed easier long ago, at least in the Little House on the Prairie books, and some of her thoughts about it. I commented, so I won’t repeat myself, but let me just say. . .much as I’m bitching about the washer and the dishwasher and driving all over the place, I have very little (if any) desire to go back to a simpler time. In fact, we have central air in this house, and it’s making me think of a simpler time in my own lifetime I wouldn’t want to go back to!

For me, it’s about stepping back a bit and asking myself “how important is that, REALLY?” Most things can be done later, or eventually, with no negative impact on the grand scheme of things. Most inconveniences are just that, and don’t last forever. AND. . .I don’t have to do EVERYTHING that pops into my mind. Yep. If we miss seeing the frogs, so be it. If I have to wait until the kids are in school to get claying or sewing done, oh well. If I don’t get the moss dug up and grass seed planted this fall, there’ll be another fall next year. And another and another.

So we’ll hit the go-karts and the rides today, have funnel cake and cheese fries, and remember to put on sunscreen this time, and it’ll be a perfectly lovely day.