we've been out all morning day. playing with cousins, chatting, eating. mostly just thoroughly exhausting myself and my kids. i make the 20 minute drive home. it was one of those drives where you get in the car and drive away and the next thing you know you are at home, wondering how in the world you got there safely. we pull into the garage and then the chaos starts...
get all the bags out of the car. get the baby out of the car. set him in a quiet spot in the house. back to the car. let the boy out. tell him to go in the house. grab the wet towels from the car (swimming). throw them in the door. back to the car. grab the sleeping toddler. carry her to the crib. back down the stairs. stop at the bathroom to pee. wash hands (of course). grab a drink for the boy. move the baby who is now crying. turn on tv for the boy. turn off tv. go outside. turn on sprinkler for the boy. lay out towel for the boy. shove a binkie into screaming baby's mouth. get diapers and wipes to change baby. stand up. notice that my pants just fell down....
...what???
of course for about half a second i heard the hallelujah chorus in my head as i thought those pesky 9 lbs of lingering baby weight had miraculously just melted away and that my pants fell down cause they were just to dang big. {smile}
but that wasn't the case. when, in the course of all the happenings at my house, did my pants even get unbuttoned? i review in my mind and then realize i did stop to pee during all that chaos. then i remember i went outside with my unbuttoned pants, my shirt that is up around my belly button and my holy underpants in full view to the world!
having three kids is making me lose my mind. in the course of doing everything for these 3 little ones, i seem to forget about myself and the stuff i need to do for me.
you were totally right mom!! having kids really is like being pecked to death by a duck. they peck and peck and peck until...well until you forget to button your pants after you pee.
but, i guess if i had to choose between being pecked to death by ducks or not having kids, i would choose the kids. they make my life...{thinking...thinking...thinking} hectic and tiring and exhausting and.....interesting.
now if only i could find a way to do all the stuff that needs to be done (for then and me!) AND remember to button my shorts after each potty stop then i would be golden!!
i think i am going to sit and ponder on the solution (for a minute) and give these beauties a little r&r. don't they look tired?? they really are.
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