Normal Morning Life

For the most part I lead a normal life. I usually get up at around 6 AM and start my day by taking a shower followed by dragging my dogs from their crates to their dog pen. This task is harder than you may think because of the need to get them out one at a time in a specific order. If I was to let them out in the wrong order the first dog will not stay in the pen or another will not go in the pen in the first place. I have one dog the other two are not too happy with as she is nuisance in that she will do everything to bug the others in every way possible.

My next task on summer mornings is to get my coffee ready to be consumed. We have three coffeemakers in our house because my husband, son, and myself have three different ideas of how strong coffee should be so it makes since, in our house. Once it is prepared and started I get to sit down at my computer I already turned on in passing between getting dogs out and preparing the coffee.

At the computer: I get a chance to check Facebook, the weather, and my email from two separate accounts.   This is somewhat relaxing as I wait for my coffeemaker to give me enough coffee for my first cup of coffee. If the weather is cooperating in the morning I love to do something outdoors bet today we are getting quite a bit of rain so it is even to wet to walk around the river or mow some of my lawn. The rain is nice although it means that outdoor exercise is impossible.

Around 8 AM I am back in my chair at the computer to do some writing. I also will work on speeches if I have an upcoming speech for River Valley Toastmasters. I try and do most of my writing and speech preparation in the morning before my girls wake up as they get mad if I need to concentrate and ask them to be the slightest bit quiet. Forget the days when you could send them outside because these days they will through a major fit that there is 'nothing to do,' 'it is to hot,' or any a number of other excuses they come up with until you throw your hands up and say 'When I was a kid,' a phrase you told yourself that you would never say as a parent when you were a teenager and younger. Funny how all of us end up being a true parent once we get older and have one or more children.