Rules for Being Home Alone

Hello there...for those of you who have not yet experienced the joys of having ALL of your children in school, for the FULL DAY, at the same time, I am going to share with you a few rules I'm learning already. For those of you who have been home alone, enjoy my humor.

Rule #1: Make sure that your bathroom has toilet paper in it BEFORE you use it.
No matter how loudly you can whistle or how much you yell...NO ONE is going to help you! This can be particularly irritating if one uses said bathroom at, say, 10:30am, when there is NO hope of anyone getting home before your legs fall asleep, or hunger overtakes you (seeing as you have been too busy to eat breakfast, this might not take so long).

However, the wonders of having your children in school ALL DAY are many more (so far anyway). Do you KNOW how fast you can switch the laundry, sort the dirty clothes, and fold/hang up the clean stuff if you don't have to leave the laundry room to solve one problem or another (like, say, your 4-year old needs toilet paper, and not another soul in the house can hear her screaming for it...but you, surrounded by a running washing machine, dryer and the A/C fan, can make out what she's saying)? Do you also know how fast a living room (which was crying out desperately for some help) can get cleaned up when one isn't cleaning up messes as they happen around you (no matter how often you remind the children not to bring ANYTHING else INTO the living room while you're cleaning!).

I hope to be posting some '1st Day of School' pictures here soon!