I will paint a picture of yesterday.
7:00am
Wake up, get kids showered, dressed, fed.
Make lunches
Send Cameron to work.
Send kids to school.
Cleaning kitchen, doing dishes, picking up the house.
Shower, get ready for the day.
Dress Reagan
Everybody in the car. We have to go food shopping.
Owen: My tongue hurts mom.
Five seconds out of driveway
Reagan: Stop Mom!
Me: Why?
Reagan: Stop Mom!
Pull car over.
...Nothing...silence from the backseat.
Driving again.
5 seconds later
Reagan: Stop Mom!
Me: No.
Reagan: Stop your car Mom!
Me: No.
Reagan: STOP YOUR CAR MOM!
Pull car over.
Me: What?
Reagan: Look at that car mom.
Really? Sigh. Keep driving. All the way to the store Reagan tells me to stop the car.
Get to the store. Get a cart. Owen and Reagan both want to ride in the cart. Reagan in front and Owen in the basket.
Shopping.
Reagan: I poopy mom.
Oh man. I'm here...what do I do?
Plow through.
Cart filling up. Owen out of the cart. Now Reagan wants out. Reagan out of the cart.
Five minutes later...
Reagan doesn't want out of the cart, Reagan doesn't want in the cart. Crying, crying, crying.
Me: Coaxing, cajoling, demanding, giving up. Driving cart with crying, whining 2 year old tagging along behind.
Reagan: Mom! Mommy! No Mom! Mommymommymommymommy! etc.
Me: Trying to ignore
Owen: Being oblivious
Customers: Looking at me like I'm the meanest mom ever.
Reagan: Screams getting to be a pitch that dogs would howl at. Lays down and refuses to walk.
I'm almost done, I can't just abandon my cart because I don't want to do this again. I give in and pick her up.
Owen: My tongue hurts mom.
Reagan: Not wanting to be in the cart or put down. Just wants to be carried.
Me: Pushing full cart with one arm, holding Reagan in the other.
Owen: Still oblivious. In his own world.
Finally done.
Checkout
Driving home
Home. It's only 11:00?
Putting away groceries
Kids want lunch.
Hold on, I have to put away groceries and then change Reagan's diaper and then lunch.
Putting away groceries
Cutting stuff up to put in freezer
Done. Time to change Reagan.
Reagan: Asleep on the living room floor
sigh
Wake Reagan up, change diaper.
Get lunch started.
Owen: My tongue hurts mom.
Reagan: Wide awake.
Kids eating
Start laundry.
Carry, sort, start washing.
Wash, dry, fold, pick up, repeat.
Love kids, play game with Owen
Snuggle with Reagan
Kids home from school.
Laundry not done
Help with homework
Help with reading
Start dinner.
Kids outside to play with friends.
Downstairs to work on scout stuff.
Someone crying
Upstairs.
Owen is hurt. He fell down and scraped both knees.
Wash, blow, bandage.
Owen back outside.
Stir dinner.
Halfway down stairs again.
Someone crying, screaming, screeching.
Erin herding Reagan inside. Both crying and screaming.
Erin: There's a dog outside and he's scaring us!
Look out window
Owen: Laying in the middle of the road, face down with a dog (not a huge one) jumping and barking all around him. Crying, screaming.
Outside to rescue Owen.
Pick him up, bring him in.
Owen scraped his knees again.
Girls still crying in the background.
Starting to doctor, bandage, etc.
Ding dong!
Neighbor at door.
Neighbor: I am so sorry about my dog. Is Owen okay?
Reassure neighbor.
Neighbor: We're getting rid of that dog. I hate it. This was the last straw.
Reassure neighbor.
Neighbor leaves.
Owen: My tongue hurts mom.
Bandage, look at Owen's throat and tongue. White spots. What?
Cameron comes home.
Tell Cameron about the white spots.
Do we go to the doctor? Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes.
Erin: Mom, I think I'm getting hives again!
Calamine lotion.
Owen and I to the doctor.
On the way to the doctor
Owen: My tongue doesn't hurt anymore mom! It's all better.
Do I still go? Yes.
At the doctor.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Doctor comes in. Spends 2 minutes with us. (If that)
It's just swollen taste buds.
Get mouthwash to numb tongue.
Back home.
Everyone else has eaten dinner.
Erin's hives worse.
Cameron gives Erin a bath
Eat dinner
Read scriptures
Everyone in jammas, bathroom, drink
Say prayers
Calamine lotion
Kids in bed.
Sit down and start to talk to Cameron.
Silence
Thirty minutes later a groan and crying
Erin: I'M ITCHY!!!!!
Erin: Freaking out, hives all over body.
Calamine lotion
Benadryl lotion
Erin: Still hopping all over, rabidly looking at her body parts. IT STILL ITCHES!!!
Looking up how to stop hives from itching online.
Vinegar
Benadryl pill
Erin: Calming down, still twitching.
Turn on TV to take her mind off it.
10:00 Erin feels better. Erin to bed.
Long day. So tired.
Wait 20 minutes for Erin to fall asleep.
To bed.
