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Sandy got home from her youth group function about 2:00 or so. It was nice having a few days without her. Anyway she comes in and tells us that she knows she has homework and will start on it. I tell her to do her laundry while she is doing her homework and she says "yes Mom". We lay down for a nap until 6 p.m. I get up and start dinner. Sandy comes out to give me a hug and I ask if she has done her homework. She replies that she is still working on it. Hmmmm, I'm a little suspect, but I let it go. I then ask her if she has done her laundry and she tells me no. I ask why and she tells me that she was afraid it would keep us awake. Translation: I didn't feel like doing it. So she starts her laundry. How in the world a kid can end up with two loads of laundry when she does her laundry every weekend is beyond me. Mike and I can go for a week and a half between laundry days and we don't have two loads. So we finish dinner about 7:45. At 8:30 Sandy comes out and wants to go to bed. She wants me to take her dry clothes out of the dryer, put the wet ones in the dryer and when those are done, remove them from the dryer. I am unwilling to do this. If she had done this when I told her to she would have gotten it all done. Then I ask if she had gotten the litter boxes done. This is part of her daily chore routine. She about bit my head off. If she wants a guinea pig she is going to have to clean up her attitude and be more responsible. Mike & I will be revealing her candy stash and the repercussions of this. I am anticipating a battle royal.

Shadow our black Siamese mix was acting really strange this afternoon. We usually take him into our bedroom and let him sleep with us. He is the only cat who will not go wandering into the bathroom and trash it like the other two will. He would not settle down. He kept pacing back and forth like an expectant father. He did this for about a half an hour. He went under the bed at one point and I tried to pet him and he jumped back and gave me a dirty look. He finally jumped up on the bed right when I was drifting off. I scratched his ears and snuggled down to go back to sleep. He comes up to me a few minutes later, purring and licking my ear. He eventually settled down but he did not curl up at the end of the bed like he usually does. He was lying on his chest. He has been pretty jumpy all day. I am not sure what is bothering him today.