Today started like any other (well most others) with me and three kids squished into our bed. A sweaty Cooper laying directly next to me, Ava snuggled up so close she was almost on-top of me, and Ella a bit further away… naked. Yes, naked! (Side note, it is NEVER good to find an unpotty trained two year old naked in your bed… NEVER!) Luckily, though, she had not peed! Woo-hooo, the day is starting off great! I got up and started to make the bed… which is when I found her wet diaper in the sheets. Perfect! No pee in the bed AND the missing diaper found right away! Could the day really be starting this well?!?! At that point, I decided that I would uphold my promise to Ava and take the kids out for lunch and to “all the stores” as she had asked.
Three hours, four diaper changes, and 5 changes of clothes later… we’re off! Wow, we’re doing great! So, the plan is… carwash, small shop in town, Subway for lunch, and then the grocery store for some necessities. Carwash went well… clean van… content kids! Off to the ilttle shop in town to find a new bakers rack (thank you kids for breaking ours!) Pretty much as soon as we walked in the door, my Ella turned into a complete monster. I don’t know who’s child I had with me, but she was not the Ella I know! It was one tantrum after another… screaming “Let me down… Noooooo!!!! Put ME DOOOOOWN!!!” So, after she settled, I would put her down, and she’d run away from me. I chase the kid around the store, pick her up and bring her back to the cart… which only brings her to screaming “Let me down!!!” once again. Meanwhile, Ava is walking around “bein’ a good girl” and touching EVERYTHING. (Soooooo NOT being a good girl!) Here I am shopping, “Ava come here, I would like to look at your bakers racks, Ava, I said come here. Ella! Ella get down, that’s it, if you can’t listen mommy’s carrying you. Quiet! Ellison, quiet, you need to stop this… do you want a spank? Oh I like this one, can I get this one please? Oh you only have the display model, yeah that’s fine I can wait, ELLA! Get overhere. Thank you very much, ok come on guys let’s go, good girl Ella, come with mommy, Ava? AVA!! Where are you? Ava you know better than to walk away from mommy. Lets go… FINGERS!” (Fingers, that’s another story) At least Cooper was being a great little guy, sitting so nicely in the cart. The perfect child… for now anyway!
Needless to say, the story doesn’t end there as we did have to go have lunch… at this point it’s already 1:30. Subway went fairly well, had a few little problems… Simple little things like Ella slipping and putting her arm in the toilet… nothing really major though. *Eyes rolling!* But, this is when I decided that I would not be doing any gorcery shopping until Daddy gets home to keep the kids. I just refuse to put myself through that! Not today!
Don’t know how you do it Jenny but at least you have a good sense of humor!!