If someone were to tell me to describe how my day went yesterday in one word I would have to say horrible. I had to take Kylie to the doctor yesterday for some weird mysterious thing she has going on with her legs. It turns out she has Henoch-Schonlein Purpura. What a mouthful right? The disease itself is not what was so bad, the doctor visit was. Her appointment was for 3:10. We did not even see the doctor until 4:30. I kid you not. Then Kylie had to have her blood drawn and Sophie freaked out. She cried so hard for her sister, it was just heartbreaking. All of the kids were so tired, hungry, and irritable when we left.
I had to stop to buy milk on the way home so I told the girls they could grab a candy bar. Not something I normally do, but they had to sit in the doctors office for two and a half hours so I felt they deserved something. So Audrey and Kylie hurried up and picked theirs out and Sophie had another meltdown in the store because she couldn't decide what to get.
This was me.
Then we had to sit in construction traffic for twenty minutes outside our neighborhood. We finally got home and I made Audrey and Kylie start on their homework. Then when I was getting ready to put dinner on the table my parents walked in. And stayed. And stayed. And stayed. They finally left at 7:20 when I was telling Audrey and Sophie to go pick out a book for me to read to them. I finally got to sit down and eat my cold dinner around 8:00 last night. Yum! So I'm crossing my fingers and *hoping* that today goes much better. If it doesn't I may just have to have some of this tonight.
If you have been reading my blog for even the shortest of time you will know that A) I am an anal retentive neat freak and B) I have a very tiny house. I am constantly going through my house and purging things. Finding neat ways to organize is a bit of an obsession hobby of mine. The one thing in my house that I really and truly hate would be the closets or in my case lack thereof. Like everything else in the house they are really small and like most people I tend to use them to hide the things I don't want to look at. For example in the girls bedrooms their closets have baskets and bins on the floors to store the toys that do not fit on their shelves. Today as I was browsing some of my favorite blogs I ran across this on the Knock-Off Wood blog. I swear it was as though the skies opened and the heavens began to sing. Is this not the coolest looking kids closet ever?!?
I'm thinking I might have to add it to my poor husbands ever growing list of honey-dos.
One would think that by the time you have three children you could pretty much parent in your sleep. In my case one would be oh so wrong. Lately I keep finding myself second guessing my parenting decisions. I hate this. I like to make a decision about something and feel good about it knowing I did the right thing. Apparently my parenting handbook (the one I got late that was missing half the pages) failed to mention that sometimes there are no right and wrong answers. Right now I'm wondering should I call the doctor about that weird rash Kylie has, should I go back to work to help out financially, should I put Sophie back in gymnastics even though I hated taking her last year? I hate to say a definitive yes or no because I hate to screw up, but at the same time I can't just keep saying I don't know to everything. Maybe I should call my mom. Not for her advice, but to see if she still has my magic eight ball from when I was a kid.
I don't know about you guys, but personally I am so over summer. The heat this year has been awful (of course I'm pretty sure I say that every year) and without being able to enjoy our beaches as usual (thanks BP) it just hasn't been a very fun summer. So could we please hurry fall along?
I'm ready to look out my back door and see my favorite tree in the yard turn colors.
I'm ready to light some of my absolute favorite yankee candles.
I'm ready for the pumpkin patch and dressing my kids in their cute fall outfits.
And I am so very ready for a Starbucks pumpkin latte.
So if we could just kind of kick this fall thing into gear Mommy would be very happy.
This smells really good in small doses:
However this does not smell quite so good in very large doses. As in half a bottle size doses. It's quite nauseating actually. Not naming any names or anything, but let's just say someone has had a very eventful week this week.
It has recently come to my attention that there is a new member in my family. Allow me to introduce you to Mr. Inbisible Guy:
What? You don't see him? Don't worry neither do I, but Sophie assures me that he's right there next to her. And of course you can't really see him anyway since he's inbisible. Apparently Mr. Inbisible Guy has a mischievous streak a mile long. Just yesterday he ate almost every single piece of candy in the candy jar, spilled pretzel goldfish all over the living room floor, put blocks in every room in the house and took Audrey's stickers and put them all over Sophie's toys. I'm sure that he's a really nice guy, but quite frankly I'm ready for him to visit someone else for awhile. Oh and by the way, I do know how to spell invisible, but I was told that I was pronouncing the name all wrong. Silly mommy.
It's that time of week again already! Can you believe how quickly this week has flown by? It's storming here so I'm just going to do a quicky post so I can *gasp* turn off my computer for awhile.
Today is the last day of our first week of school. Other than one or two hiccups on the first day everything has gone really well. The girls seem to really like their teachers and classmates so Mommy is relieved. I just ordered Audrey yet another backpack/lunchbox combo. This is the third one so far. The first set was a princess Tiana set I bought on Amazon. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but Audrey loves Tiana so she was thrilled to get it. Sadly, it was a piece of crap. An expensive piece of crap. The "lunchbox" had no insulation, it was just super thin nylon meaning that nothing would stay cold and if a drink spilled it would leak. The backpack was equally thin and her water bottle won't even fit in the side pockets. So I ordered a set from the children's place that she told me she wanted. It was very nice, but way too big for her tiny frame. She told me that she couldn't keep the straps on her shoulders. Luckily they have a smaller version so I ordered it yesterday and hopefully it will work out.
Last night I had the strangest dream. Normally I would just keep this to myself, but it I think it's too funny not to share. I dreamed that the girls and I were in one of those expensive little boutique shops. Why I would take my kids somewhere like that is beyond me, but that's how dreams go. Anyway, while we were in there Kylie knocked over a bottle of wine. The funny thing is just the top of the bottle broke. I took it to the woman running the shop and offered to pay for it. She told me it would be $330. Naturally I was freaking out because I didn't want to spend that much on something that I couldn't actually drink. She then told me that if I wanted to "pay for the damages" and not take the bottle with me she would only charge me $280. Good deal huh? Not. I was still freaking out over having to shell over that much when I woke up. And guess who was lying in bed next to me? Yep, Kylie the bottle breaker herself. I nearly died laughing. My husband of course tells me it's that nightly glass of wine I have before going to bed. I think he may be right.
