A Random Day

Gosh, it has been so long since I posted on this blog.  Lord, knows it certainly is not due to lack of material.  Yep, nothing like being greeted by your three year old mooning you on Mother's Day.  "Happy Mudder's Day, Mommy.  Look at my butt."  See, this is totally blog worthy material.  Unfortunately, the random busy nature of my days take over and destroy my writing/thinking time.  Here has been the day so far:

7 a.m.- woken up by Alice who I swear is a Golden Retriever in human form.  No one who is 100% human would be that energetic and cheerful in the morning.  "It's good morning time, Mommy!"  Bed bounces.  "Angela is crying for you."  Thankfully, hubby is up and gets the three year old for me.  Three year old is in major snuggle mode which would be sweet if she did not feel so hot.  Fever is now on day three.

7-8:30 a.m.- breakfast time.  I have to admit I love how every morning I ask Angela what she wants for breakfast and she replies, "I can't think."  I then list everything we have that is suitable for breakfast.  She rejects every offering until I reach the last thing.  She then tells me she wants the first thing I said was an option.  Both girls request dresses for their attire (how did I get such girly girls anyway?).  The drive to school is detoured about two times due to road work.  I am stunned when Alice starts to sing along to the Go-Go's "We Got the Beat".  Thank Disney for my shock.  I drop Alice off and take Peanut with me to the grocery store (fever= no school for her).

8- 9:30 a.m.- thanks to the hands free phone in the new car I can call the doctor en route to the grocery store.  Get an appointment for 9:45 a.m.  Reassure Angela that it is fine she has no pants on (she is wearing a dress).  Run into store for few needed items.  Got to love speed shopping while pushing the stroller.  It should seriously be an Olympic sport.  I then dash home to use the bathroom and put the perishable stuff away.

9:45-11 a.m. At the pediatrician's office on time...whew...Angela is all smiles and energy which now makes me look like a psychopath for requesting a sick visit.  Nothing definitive so we have to wait and see if the fever/cold morphs into anything more serious.  On the plus side, I found $20 in the elevator.  We then went to the dollar store for some fun.  We leave with $5 and two bags of fun stuff.

11-11:50- Angela watches television while I do some stuff around the house.  We leave to pick up Alice from her kindergarten enrichment class and drop her off at the town's kindergarten.  Whoever told me it was called "stay at home" motherhood lied.  It is "stay in car" motherhood.

12:30- 2:30 p.m.- Lunchtime for Angela and me.  Clean up pee pee accident (hers not mine, thankfully).  Snuggle.  Sand the spackled bits in the master bedroom.  Amused when Angela offers to read to me while I am in the bathroom.  I guess she figured if it helps her along it might assist me. 

2:50- dismissal from kindergarten.  In the car again.  I let Alice play with her friends for a bit as it is finally not raining and Angela who fell asleep in the car is still passed out in the stroller.  Angela does wake up when I put her in the car.  I then have to listen to tantrum about not wanting to go home and wanting to go home.

3:30-6- Make chocolate covered bananas with kiddies, break up about three fights between them, reprimmand Alice for about 10 different things, reviewed numbers with Alice, made vanilla pudding, cut up apples for apple butter which is cooking in the slow cooker...and now I am in the present time.   Off to feed a hungry pug and kids...better post this before something else comes up.