2. Decide to bathe youngest son along with his brother.
3. While getting your son ready for a bath - get sprayed. {Not with water}
4. Make sure he hits, not only you, but his clean clothes and the bath mat.
5. While cleaning yourself up, leave said son alone {rookie mistake}, and allow him to cram his bath
towel into the toilet. {That has not been flushed for some reason}
6. Refrain from crying.
7. Finally get son into the bathtub, only to get distracted looking for the soap, and get doused with a
6. Refrain from crying.
7. Finally get son into the bathtub, only to get distracted looking for the soap, and get doused with a
large cupful of water.
8. Dry self off...again.
9. Break up water fight between sons.
10. Get everyone ready for dinner {this one is just fine to leave on your to do list, but I don't recommend
8. Dry self off...again.
9. Break up water fight between sons.
10. Get everyone ready for dinner {this one is just fine to leave on your to do list, but I don't recommend
what's next.}
11. Turn on oven to broil chicken for dinner, forgetting to remove blanket {daughter's favorite}
11. Turn on oven to broil chicken for dinner, forgetting to remove blanket {daughter's favorite}
wrapped around yogurt jars.
12. Start fire in oven.
13. Breathe in toxic fumes and nearly throw-up.
14. Rush 3 crying & panicked children out of the room while simultaneously trying to put out the
12. Start fire in oven.
13. Breathe in toxic fumes and nearly throw-up.
14. Rush 3 crying & panicked children out of the room while simultaneously trying to put out the
fire.
15. Calm everyone down, put out fire, stay positive, open the windows, THANK THE LORD, and
15. Calm everyone down, put out fire, stay positive, open the windows, THANK THE LORD, and
take pictures of scorched blanket!
16. Apologize profusely to daughter.
17. Realize once again you left youngest son unattended.
18. Clean up spilled water and soggy artwork.
19. Wait until husband come home then dissolve into a puddle of tears.
20. Thank the Lord for a washing machine that works, clean clothes to change into, a small fire that
could have been much worse, yogurt that still turned out just fine, a very busy little boy that keeps us
laughing, and a loving husband that comes home every night to this madness!
7 comments:
Man! What an afternoon! Yuck! Made my small complaints seem, well, small.
Maybe we can connect soon! I haven't even had the energy to attempt phone calls this week. = (
I almost started crying just reading about this. You get the Mom of the Year award!!!
What a day!!!!! That sounds absolutely nuts, and yet, very real life....someday it is going to be way easier, right???
Yep... can't believe I'm about to type this, but I almost started to cry too. I would list out my reasons, but I'm not brave enough to be that transparent at the moment. :)
Wow! I can't say I've ever had an hour THAT crazy - but I may have been too close for comfort. Thanks for making the family wackiness seem "normal"!
Gina
What an evening! Glad everyone is safe and that you are able to salvage bathtime, the laundry, the yogurt, your sweet little girl's heart, and your sense of humor.
"mama said there'll be days like this, there'll be days like this my Mama said..."
I read your post before I read the title and already put half of these things on my to-do list... sigh... I can't NOT do them now!
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