Oh man, these girls are wearing me out. Its 2:15 and I am getting my first break in hours, and really shouldn’t be sitting down because the house is a PIT!
Last night, Elsie and Delia traded off waking up and hollering for me every HOUR from 10:30-3:30. I ignored them at their usual wakeup time (5:55 on the dot) and they actually went back to sleep, but Emma was ready to get up about 30 minutes later…
This AM Delia pulled my OJ glass off the windowsill (my bad, I shouldn’t have left it there, though she does know better at this point) and it shattered into a billion shards of tiny glass mixed with juice all over the living room floor. Missed the rug, at least, but it was a really unpleasant clean up.
And obviously ineffective, because I found Elsie’s foot bleeding later, and found a tiny shard of glass lodged in her footie pajamas. She was fine, and none was left in her foot, thank goodness. I think she picked it up in the kitchen, however, where I rinsed and shook out a rag, so now I have to vacuum the entire downstairs again, WHICH I JUST DID YESTERDAY!!! OMG.
I ignored all this and continued with my AM plans today to get gas and go through the car wash at Costco. Turns out my card was expired, so I had to lug all 3 of them in to renew our membership (I wasn’t planning on shopping today–that takes a LOT of planning and snacks with all three of them with me). Once we were in, I did buy them an ice cream bar that we all enjoyed!
Which was good, because by the time we got out to the car again, the car wash line was INSANE and there was no chance we could wait that long. Sad, since the car wash was the main attractions for going all the way over there (Emma was really looking forward to it, as was I!).
So then we went and dropped off some garage sale stuff at a friends and then went to the park, late, but it was already promised and I couldn’t back down on another activity. It was a new park, big, fun and EMPTY! We had a great time, lots of energy expended by all. Yay.
But then, we got home late and hungry, tantrums by 2/3 (thanks to Delia for sparing me, she just waited patiently in her high chair for food), way too much dawdling at lunchtime, yada yada yada. At least the babies are asleep now, though Emma is clunking around up there and I doubt she will sleep at all. Even though she does okay at quiet time most days, I really miss her old, reliable naps!
Okay, rest time is officially over (for me). Vacuuming to prevent more blood loss first, clearing an expanse of nasty dishes, second. Mopping, if I have any energy left at all (highly unlikely), last.
Happy weekend! Hooray!
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I got tired just reading this! I do not know how you do it. Hopefully you will get some rest tonight.
you deserve that vent!!! An all too familiar morning. Sorry I missed you this morning, but thanks for the garage sale stuff!! I was at an adoption conference, sorry I missed you. If your girls loved the park, you should definitely come another morning…we go almost daily. Hope you have your feet up with a glass of wine…and no wake ups tonight (did ya hear that girlies??).
That was an exhausting post. I hope your sleep tonight is sweet and long.