Ok- so I know it has been forever since I last blog, and I can pretty much guarantee that it will be forever till I do again. I want to blog, but in order for that a person has to have free time, and that is a luxury I am no longer allowed. I do want to tell you all what I have been up to, but I feel I must spare you any depressing details. So instead of boring everyone with my last 3 weeks I will explain 1 day this week and hope that this explains my last 3 weeks:)
Tuesday:
The day started of good- I woke up, got the girls out the door, and went back to sleep (Cole was still sleeping:)!!!!) I thought to myself- WOW, I think it's going to be a good day!
Went for a walk- felt great!
Headed out to do some much needed (and deserved) shopping with a friend- Target here we come!
Got to the first store and Cole preceded to tell me that his tummy hurt. Of course like any normal mom I rush him to the bathroom and waited for him to either throw-up or do his business. Neither happened.
I then continued through the store with the thought in the back of my mind that he was going to throw-up in the middle of every isle.
Now- I would have just headed home had I not had errands that I really did HAVE to do. So we continued to target where I got him Sprite and a hotdog and it seemed to cure him! Crisis averted! I thought- well, that was a close one, but it's still going to be a good day!
Then came the afternoon.....
Picked up girls, came home, yelled at them to finish homework, yelled at them to get dressed in gymnastics clothes, yelled at Cole to get REdressed! Had just enough time to throw a few dishes in the dishwasher and ran out late for gymnastics. Of course we would not have been late if I hadn't had children screwing around in our very short time frame!
Still I thought, ok, maybe it will be a normal day:)
Got to gymnastics, missed seeing the cute baby I've been waiting all week to see!!!! Sorry Allison! Sat down for some quite time heard Cole dump about 50 cars on the floor! Told Cole very nicely to pick them up- with a smile mind you!
Waited 5 minutes- told Cole (a little louder so that I knew he heard me) to pick the cars up.
Waited 2 seconds- Slightly demanded Cole to pick up the cars!
Waited a mil-a-second- Cole glared at me!!!!!!!! Now if I weren't in a public place most people who know me know exactly what I would have done! I'm not proud of it, but I'm sure it would have gone something like- WHAT THE @#$^$#^%$%^&^%#$%^&^$##%^&*%$%&&*!!!
But... being in public I was forced to act as a perfect mom would... I calmly said Cole please pick up the cars (VERY LOUD SIGH).
Well, I must have some form of persuasion in me, because the man sitting behind me started picking them up! And of course once he started doing that I then felt obligated to help! I believe Cole picked up ONE car.
At this point, I'm done for the day, but I'm an optimist and I thought, it's just a little hiccup in my day right?
Directly after gymnastics we head toward soccer practice. We have about a half hour before it starts so being the "good" mom that I am I decide to pick up fast food. Now, I NEVER take my kids into the fast food restaurants. I mean- it's "fast food"- what's the point if your going to go and sit down and eat it inside:) But, my kids are constantly begging me too, so I thought I would make their day great by doing so. They chose McDonalds and I grimaced:) We got the food and sat down in a quiet corner to eat it.
Here was our meal:
Kids: Where's my toy, I want my toy!
Me: Leave the toys alone and eat we have 15 minutes!
Katie: Hey (whining) I got Cole's toy, where's mine?
Me: Ok- no one gets their toy until they finish eating!!! (as I proceed to put all 3 toys in my purse).
2 Minutes later:
Cole drops is cup on the ground! And of course like all children do... they all go into shock and watch it as it slowly drains on the ground!
Me: PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP!
Kids: (silence as they are still in shock!) (it's as if they've never seen a cup fall before)
So- I run over and pick it up! Oh, I also threaten Cole that if he drops anything else he will be in trouble.
5 minutes later-
Me: Cole start eating we have only a few minutes.
SO- Cole proceeds to take out his fries UPSIDE DOWN! Half of them fall all over the POP that was already on the floor! I'm livid!
Me: Cole- what the heck is wrong with you! Don't pick those up, yuck, leave them alone and start eating, and if you drop anything else you will NEVER eat at McDonalds again for the rest of your life!!!!!!!
Cole: (very quietly) ok.
2 minutes later-
Cole likes to split his hamburger into 2 pieces. Well, for some odd reason... I'm sure you all see what's coming... he drops one of the halves onto the FRIES that are on the POP that is on the FLOOR!!!!!
I thought I had 2 choses- be sweet and nice and understand that he is little and it was all an accident... or run to the van as fast as I can and leave them all there! I tried to think about how mad Kenny really would be. Hmmmm.
Well, their comes a time when you are so mad that all you can do is stay calm. So, I calmly walked over to Cole and grabbed the rest of the food from him. The most interesting part was what he did. He put his hands up like he was shielding his face from me! Ya! Like he knew that I was so mad that I might actually smack him! I almost laughed! I mean, I'll admit I have spanked my kids and their has been the occasional flick to them, but wow- they kids actually thought I was going to really lay into him! :) I guess he could see all that anger in my face:)
Well, for the rest of the evening, which included soccer practice and then a church meeting, I just tried to remain calm. Kenny met me at soccer practice and asked why I looked so mad... all I did was look at him and then back at Cole... I think he got it. Needless to say I finally got back home at 9:00 and went straight to bed!
