My Day

Well, my day started off well enough for a Monday. I got to sleep in because Sarah is back from girl’s camp, which means that Mark can drive me to work without me having to get all three kidlets up and dressed. Work went as well as could be expected. I came home for lunch as usual, and I was heading off to Oakland for a work meeting after lunch. I of course was late getting on my way to Oakland, but I had my trusty yahoo driving directions in hand. Of course I got lost. I followed the directions implicitly only to discover that I had typed in 100 Broadway instead of 1000 Broadway. But you can’t fool me for long. I figured out that the county health department was probably not housed in the Barnes and Nobles at Jack London Square, so off I go to find the real county health department. I eventually found the right building, and the parking garage, and the correct elevator, apparently I took the back elevator first, and had to go all the way around to find the public elevator. By that time I was twenty minutes late, and I had to leave the meeting a half hour early in order to get back on time for Mark to leave for work!! But, not to worry I got lost finding the freeway on the way back too! The happy thing about this story is I did eventually find my way back home. A fact that I found rather encouraging at the time….

Of course once I got home, I knew I would have to take the kids swimming in the big pool. Anarosa and Alana had earned dollar store inner tubes on Sunday by sitting through Sacrament Meeting and staying in Primary the whole time (I know, but apparently I am not above bribery, and Jacob hasn’t been to primary in five weeks!! So I’m getting desperate) Jacob didn’t quite make it for the whole time so he is going to try again next Sunday. Well, the girls have been beside themselves waiting a whole 24 hours since they got the swimming inner tubes! And we have been repeatedly warning them not to be too rough with them or they will pop! Of course as soon as I get home they are ready to suit up and get to the pool. Once I say we can get ready everybody changes into their suits and in the excitement Anarosa “accidentally jumps” on her inner tube and it pops. Literally, not a small hole, an 8 inch whole on the inside of the tube! She immediately falls into hysterics so we hunt up the duct tape, and do the best we can to repair it.
Once we get that done, we head to the pool.

As soon as we get there, Jacob realizes that he is the only one who doesn’t have a tube, and he immediately falls apart. I know, I know, but I really need him to want a tube bad enough to go to Primary and to keep the yelling to a minimum in Sacrament meeting… So I am not going to give in, the girls can share with him if they want to, but you guessed it nobody wants to. So he is miserable and lets me know it. Next, Anarosa’s inner tube deflates in the water, the duct tape just wasn’t able to do it. And she immediately falls back into hysterics. Now my Anarosa has always been the sensitive one, which can be a very endearing quality. This however, is a full blown tantrum. And no I cannot make Alana give her, her inner tube just because Anarosa’s broke. And yes, I do know that I have ruined her life, and we spend the next 20 minutes with Anarosa throwing a fit! (Jacob also still upset) Next, comes Alana who declares she cannot swim with all this crying and yelling (I’m sure the entire apartment complex agrees with her by now). And you guessed it she starts crying too. Yep, it is definitely time to go home now! Besides it’s like 65 degrees outside and overcast and it looks like it’s going to start raining any time now! So I pack them all up, howling and crying and drag them all home. Jacob unfortunately had to sit in time out as soon as we got home, because the whole time we were walking back to the house, he kept calling me a Dufus, and after the third time I had told him to use his nice words, he went from saying under his breath to yelling it as loud as his rebellious three year old lungs could do it. By this time, Sarah is the only on who I haven’t made cry (although I offered to try if she felt left out).
So we finally get them home, and changed, and fed and put to bed. And yes, I am still the worst mommy in the WHOLE WORLD! Especially since at 8:00 I MADE THEM GO TO BED!
But the really great news is that once I finish with all that I still get to go clean the bathroom of one of the recently vacated apartments!! Well at least tomorrow already has something going for it……it isn’t today!