Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Prisoner exchange

Anyone want to exchange kids for a day?  Mine are locked in my bedroom while I try to clean up.  I'm waiting for the floor to dry so I can walk on it so I'll just write down what's happened so far... though I'm not sure I'll forget for a while.

First off... we spent the weekend helping get Jer's brother's floor in so I didn't do cleaning... then I got sick and didn't do chores... then last night we got home at 11pm from finishing the floor (which was fun...), put the kids in bed, sat down to do some computer catch up stuff, got to bed about 12:30am, got woken up at 1am by a Sammy that had diarrhea...which Jer got... then I was up every 15 or so minutes until about 3:30am (Jer took the 5am one too thank goodness)... Got up this morning, cancelled babysitting, got the kids breakfast, dressed, brushed teeth, started packing stuff for Jer's marathon, started the laundry, washed dishes, and just tried to catch up on the last weeks worth of cleaning.  I took a break to make the kids some lunch and found that Evelyn had dumped what was left of two boxes of cereal on the entry way floor and instead of telling me... my older two just sat in the middle of it and ate it (smashed it) until I found it and cleaned it up.  Got them up to eat lunch, ran to the bathroom for a minute and Evelyn got into the food I was packing for Jer's thing... and left mac and cheese hand prints through the kitchen and up the stairs where she came to visit me in the bathroom.  Got that cleaned up and the kids had broken the big box that we'd gotten to make a fort out of even though I told them not to... so that's going to be trashed as soon as I can... Sam started kicking Ada in the face so I told him to go to bed and he completely ignored me, so he got a spank and put to bed.  Evelyn got put to bed, and I went to go shower.  Ada started crying in the kitchen so I wrapped up in a robe and went to see... Ada had spilled a pitcher of apple juice on the floor.  Instead of helping me or apologizing she threw a tantrum that she didn't get apple juice anymore because it was gone, so she got put into bed.  I half cleaned up the apple juice when a friend came over to get help printing out a school paper that she had to turn in in just about a half an hour... finally got into the shower.  Clean!  When I got out of the shower I heard Evelyn's little voice in her room saying, "Help please, help please, help please."  Very quiet and calmly.  I went in and I found the diaper changing table tipped over, the lotion bottle broken and spread around, a very sticky Evelyn and a list of things that I had to clean bag balm finger painting off of.... the ENTIRE rocking chair, the toddler bed, the walls, the carpet, all her baby dolls and toys, her bedding, half the diapers, the baby monitors, etc... I was pretty mad but I lost it when she pooped in the tub while I was trying to wash her up.  Now I also had to finish cleaning the kitchen floor, the bathtub, the bath toys and Evelyn's whole sticky mess.  Good news?  I finally got a hug from Ada saying that she was sorry for making a mess.  That made it easier to clean up her mess...  It's 6:30pm, what are the chances that I get these messes cleaned up today?

1 comment:

The Shepherd family said...

WOW. You have had quiet the week it sounds like, not to mention just the past day! I sure hope that it gets better for you!!!

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