****DISCLAIMER***
In no way does Alyssa endorse or support this post.
(she is actually asleep)

Alyssa has been really busy with the following action items (so I am posting tonight)
these past 5 days:

• purchasing a tow package hitch with a 2 inch ball
  
• purchasing 14 inch chain for an Echo CS-300 chainsaw
  
• renting and towing 6 inch Bush Bandit Chipper
• drag brush in flip-flops and nice jeans
  
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• scheduling rental inspections
• scheduling appliance delivery at multiple sites
• updating our shared Google Calender (which sends my poor remembering abilities text messages 20 minutes before I have to be somewhere)
• scheduling and meeting with pest control
• setting up contact signing
• making sure that we actually paid for a 4 hour chipper rental when we were charged for 24 hours
• calling back
• talking to manager (we shopped locally and not at the Homer Despot)
  
• securing a refund
• attending Sunbugs, Moonshine, or Sunrays (I forget what it is called, Carter gets to play there and sing and stuff)
• Story time at one place
  
• Story time at another place (we have like $3,000 in $10 off coupons for that place)
• Mealing planning for a family of Seven
• Re-organizing her recipe box (see Brazilian chicken in coconut sauce)
• beating Fred in Mario-Cart and SSX Trickey
  
• Taking 4 teenagers to Wal-Mart for assorted items (it is cheap and the diapers rock):
• sour gummy bears
• shirt
• socks
• under-shirts
• mops (post flood)
• door wreath
• black collared shirt
• tie
  
• grocery shopping
• redirecting Carter for the umpteenth time
• redirecting me for the umpteenth time
  
• special trip to buy me saline solution for my contacts
• SHE MAKES MY LUNCH AND MY TRAVEL MUG FULL OF COFFEE EVERY MORNING
  
• doing all our laundry and putting it away
• co-ordinating our boys shopping trip to the mall as donated by a group of concerned citizens
• co-teaching Sunday school
  
• I'm exhausted trying to come up with this list
• being cool every day
• running also
  
• oh, and dealing with this kid every day:
  

Alyssa is, I need to use an analogy, as awesome as the sun is hot, because she is hot too. I really don't know if that is more a simile than analogy, but I am tired and did graduate from a California State University after more than sixish years as an undergraduate.