Neverending Days

You ever have one of those days where you just can't wait for it to be over? Or at least till all the kids are in bed and you can drown your misery in a bag of doritos or a large bowl of Oreo Dirt Cake? (Yeah, we made that Oreo Dirt Cake and while it was good, we won't be doing it again- way to messy!) but back to me....

Marian woke me up with her vomiting last night at 11:30. She was uncomfortable most of the rest of the night too, which meant I didn't sleep well since she was camped out on the floor right next to me. I didn't get to sleep in either- Dan had to go on the Youth Temple Trip, so I had to be exercised and home by 8:30. I rode my bike about 4 miles and then ran 3 1/2 and that was actually the best part of my day. Sad, huh.

As soon as Dan left, it was horrible! Callie cried and whined non-stop. i don't know why. The neighbor girls came over and I made everyone go out to the park. That didn't last long. They came in screaming that there were wasses (wasps) all over. I only saw one. But the kids were done with outside. I tried to sort through toys. My plan is that everything that doesn't have a bin to call home is gone. That was going pretty well till I had helpers. I took one bin of stuff upstairs and came down to the true-pain screeches of Callie, who had climbed on the elliptical machine with Morgan, the nieghbor girl. She'd managed to scrape a good sized bit of her calf on it somehow. No bleeding, just the top layer of skin gone. The howling went on forever. Seriously.

I finally got her quiet, and got Joshua out of the house. He came back wanting to swim. Well, we trashed the yard yesterday doing that, so I said no. Our nieghbor Sara set up her pool, but got into trouble before anyone could use it. Joshua was about ready to go into super-whine mode. In a moment of delerium, I thought, why not? and suggested that we could go to the pool. We had a quick lunch of hot dogs and string cheese and got ready. Yes, I took all 4 urchins out to the pool. They loved it. I actually enjoyed it too. The older 3 are self entertaining and require little assistance. Delaney however.... she loved playing on the side, and once in the kiddie section, did not want help, which worked out badly for her. By the 5 dunking, she was totally okay with it though.

So the pool went well, till it was time to go. Callie made it to the parking lot before having a random meltdown. I carried her to the car, buckled her up and went to Little Caesar's. I LOVE thier drive-up window! However, no one wanted pizza but me and Delaney. Marian said she wanted Frosted Flakes and cried for 20 minutes till she fell asleep. Callie cried for some other reason. Delaney woke up from her nap and cried and cried. I do not know why they were all crying!! Honestly!

Finally it was about bedtime. I took them up for baths and Callie kept splashing and tossing water out. I pulled her out of the bath and she sat in the hallway, naked and wet and howled. Dan had gotten home 15 minutes before but he was surprisingly absent, which really made me cross. I should mention that my allergies are in total overdrive today and I am utterly miserable to begin with. I am sneezing, itchy, runny nosed and hating life. I swear I have had a good attitude with the kids, so don't tell me that's where their issues today were coming from!

On the plus side, it is 7:45, everyone but Delaney is fresh, clean, and in bed, and no one (so far) has had a bedtime meltdown. Now that I have spewed my frustrations out here, I shall go see if there are any more leftover Easter chocolate eggs and I will channel surf and make Dan deal with Delaney. Oh wait, no I won't. I have a sunday School lesson to peruse before tomorrow! Eeek!