Wow, what a day I’ve had. It’s just about 10pm and I feel like I’ve been going full-boar all day long. And because I’m SO exhausted and it’s so late and I am so fried, I’m going to resort to bullets yet again. I know you’ll forgive me.
- So last night was my night with Liam and it was HOR. RI. BLE. I don’t know how he knows when its my night to deal with him but he does. I went to bed around 11pm and I swear, I hadn’t been underneath the covers for more than about 20 seconds before he started to cry over the monitor. TWO HOURS later, I finally gave up and came back to my room and tried to ward off a nervous breakdown. Luckily, he quieted down shortly thereafter and fell asleep. But then, he was up again around 3. Briefly though. Then again 10 minutes to 5 and that time he was up for about 45 minutes. I have felt completely wasted all day long. And what’s more? I’ve had NO COFFEE or caffeinated beverage at all to help me through. There hasn’t been TIME. (And I’m out of Diet Coke, horror of all horrors)
- My eldest is such a flake. I drive him to school this morning and just as we pull up in front, he realizes he left his backpack at home. I yelp at him and he says, “I’m hot lunch today,” as if that makes it okay. It DOESN’T because today his homework for the week is due. GRR. As if the only reason to bring a backpack is to have some place to put your lunch bag. It’s too late to run home so I vow to bring it when I pick him up from school and have him turn it in then. Bah! Hot lunch, indeed.
- We’re having lunch with Kile at 11, which means I need to put Liam down as soon as we get back home. I do so and then promptly hop in the shower because the Fenugreek is taking effect at last and I don’t want to go to lunch smelling like maple syrup the way I do.
- We have lunch downtown at the coffee shop in the Eldorado, because Kile loves their General’s Chicken there. They’ve raised the prices though, so I don’t think we’ll be doing it much more in the future. We proceed to talk during lunch about how silly we think gambling is in general and realize we’re living in the WAY wrong state.
On our way back from lunch we see a nasty wreck. It must have just happened because the wheels on the car were still turning. We could tell this because the car (minivan, as it happens), was on its hood. As we inch past, we try to figure out how the accident happened and see that a lamppost nearby is bent over. Yikes! We see a banged up black Dodge SUV in the intersection and a lady gets out and fetches her daughter from the carseat in the back. Thankfully, both of them are completely injury free. I’m not sure the driver of the minivan fared as well. As we pass, the ambulance and emergency crews show up. Yikes!- It’s a half day at school so I have to hurry back up to our neighborhood to meet Harry (with his homework, natch). Afterward, I walk down to the neighboring park with a friend and her kids and we meet yet another mom and her kids and her day care kids. All in all, its quite the pack of children (12 in all). Whew! The kids play for a while before they start to get too warm (it got to 70 degrees today!) so we head to my friend’s house where she doles out popsicles. While the kids continue to play outside in the backyard, the moms sit inside with the babies and chat.
- Time to go home! I’m late for a pump session and Liam is late for a nap. Liam goes down for his nap incredibly easily and stays down for an incomprehensible amount of time. WOW. We have Taco Time for dinner which is muy yum what with the cheesy tater tots and the cherry empanadas for desert. Kile and I play lots of computer games for the rest of the evening. The end.
All I can say is praise God that I don’t have to be on duty with Liam tonight. I’m so worn out I don’t know which end is up. Excuse me while I faceplant onto the bed…
