Wake up, start breakfast. Drag Cookie out of bed, get Fraise started on getting dressed. Finish breakfast and serve.

Help Fraise finish dressing and hurry her downstairs.

Eat breakfast, then collect the dishes. Clean up the dining room area before starting on the girls' lunches. Make sure to cut the crusts off for Cookie, because she likes them that way, and make sure not to accidentally use the mustard with the spices in it because Fraise is allergic.

See the girls off to school, then do the dishes. Start the vacuum and get the living room done or you'll never get another chance. Dust all the shelves. Reorganize Cookie's room without it appearing as if you touched anything, and then try and get the stain left in the couch cushion out that someone must have left the night before.

The kitchen could use some tidying up, but then Latte stops in for a chat. He leaves a mess in his wake, and misses the ash tray more than once. Assure him that you're fine when he starts asking you how things have been, then see him out the door. Now you may finally clean... after cleaning the mess left by your eldest son.

Three hours before the girls are due back from school. Go outside. Roll back the cover on the pool and check the water. Go inside and change into your swimsuit - you look pretty good in it for an old lady, if you say so yourself. Go to the fridge and take out the Clamato juice, and find the vodka you hide from Cookie, as well as the glass salts, lime, and celery. Rim the glass appropriately before mixing your drink. Head outside again.

Sit down on the lounger.

Now...

Relax.

At least until the girls come home.

Art by KittyDee