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August 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Exercise, Family, Home

If you give a mom a yoga DVD, she’s going to need a place to use it.
Since she has four kids that are addicted to TV, she’ll have to use it in her bedroom.
While she’s using it in her bedroom, she’ll notice that the curtains hanging in her face are dirty.
But, having merely glued the hems, she is afraid washing will un-hem them.
In order to avoid the dirty curtain problem, she looks for a book to keep her occupied.
However, since getting sucked into a silly vampire series, she wants only to read the next book in said series.
So, she remembers that her brother is going to mail her the next two books and texts him for an update.
Her brother responds that he sent the books express, spending lots of money and she feels bad. Sort of.
Still looking for something to occupy herself, she does some laundry. This reminds her that she should really wash the curtains.
So, bravely, she pulls out her sewing machine. But, she doesn’t remember how to use it.
She starts looking for the sewing machine manual. Her 4-year-old joins her and starts pulling out all sorts of extra material and sewing supplies.
She finds the manual and gets ready to sew. Using scraps, she tries out the machine before looking at the manual. And it works! She sets the manual aside.
She goes into her room to remove the curtains from the rods. But, she needs a screwdriver to get the rods down.
She finds her tools and gets to work. As she removes the finials, her children run off with them.
She removes the curtains and begins sewing. Successfully!
Proud of her excellent sewing success, she thinks of her friend Katey, and how she needs to call her.
But,. Katey is visiting her family in California. She thinks what a warm place California is. Which makes her think of swimming.
She asks the kids (still running around with the finials) if they want to go swimming.
She throws the curtains in the wash and grabs bathing suits. She heads to the pool.
To find it closed for the season. But, someone tells her the other pool is open. She heads across town.
She swims with the kids for a while until one of them says he feels sick.
They come home, eat lunch and park it in front of the TV.
Remembering the curtains, she pulls them out of the washer and hangs them back up in her bedroom.
She tracks down the finials and reattaches them.
While she’s in her bedroom, she sees her yoga equipment, and thinks she should do the DVD again, as she was interrupted so often the first time.

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  • 1 Alexandra // Aug 18, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    All that before lunch? Holy smokes… I’m barely getting dressed by lunch time.

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