A sneak peek

This afternoon I had a blinding headache (probably from too much sugar due to sampling the goodies Emory wanted to bake) and I wasn't as quick on my toes as usual and here's just a little sampling of what happened...

Trinity is fussing, whining and occasionally screaming about not wanting to go to soccer practice, Addison is screaming in her bed and Emory is sitting on the sofa in a total trance due to her benadryl I gave her to try to help her nose stop running long enough to get a nap in. I finally go in and check on Addison and the smell of dirty diaper is overwhelming! I get her diaper changed and decided to start the dishwasher before running out the door to soccer so I don't have to listen to the girls whine about how loud it is and they can't hear anything while it's running, so I set Addison down on the floor so I can get all the dirty baking dishes out of the sink and in the dishwasher. Setting Addison down brings Emory out of her near coma state and down on the floor to play with "her baby". Addison, none to happy about her mommy leaving the room, starts crying and eventually crawls after me to come let me know up-close how upset she is with me. Emory being the incredible big sister and helper that she is, follows Addison and quickly goes to scoop up Halo's food and water bowls so Addison doesn't take a detour for her daily feast. In Emory's incredibly helpful attempt she stacks the food bowl inside of the FULL water bowl and water goes everywhere! I lunge for kitchen towels to throw on the growing puddles before Addison crawls through them, then reach for the bowls to unstack and set aside. In the few seconds it takes me to do this Addison has not only crawled (she's still army crawling, so her entire body is on the floor) through the puddles, mopping them up for me but she is also heading straight for the dishwasher, which has HUGE knives with in her reach that I left open in my rush to save her from the puddles. While I'm racing over to save her from the knives and save the dishwasher from Addison, I slipped on puddles left behind by Addison's soaked dress, caught my balance and still managed to scoop her up. Now that I have saved all of this and us from total destruction I try to process what all Trinity is yelling at me about "hating soccer" and respond to her, start the dishwasher and run get Trinity's clothes for soccer to get her changed into since she is obviously not going to do it herself. I set Addison back down on the floor so I can hopefully get through these things more quickly and I return to the living room to try my best to encourage Trinity to be excited about soccer- it was her last practice of the season after all. Just as I think of a good, strong point to make I hear Emory start yelling at Addison and hollering for me...from the bathroom. I ditch my conversation with Trinity and run into the bathroom where Emory is washing her hands (which in her world means she is getting hand sanitizer all over the place to make sure not only her hands are clean, but so is everything else in the bathroom) and Addison is settling for an afternoon treat from Belle's (the cat) food dish since Halo's was so rudely taken from her. I scoop her up from this, bail the food out of her mouth and set a SCREAMING baby down on the floor to try to continue to reason with Trinity...only to find she has escaped as well! I find Trinity in the play room and get her ready for soccer, all the while she and Emory are fussing at each other about...actually about nothing (I think Emory was trying to figure out why Trinity was so grumpy and Trinity kept telling her something about Emory wasn't her parent and wasn't in charge of her so she didn't have to tell her...I think) and I manage to get that done and get everyone's water and snacks for the park and practice and still get out the door on time. By this point I'm so tired of hearing everyone gripe, fuss, whine, yell, and just be rude and disrespectful that I make a "complete silence" rule for the car on the entire ride to the park, it's about 20-25 minutes! Then, just as I'm settling into the silence my phone rings...so much for that!

Anyway, the silence did the girls a little good and their moods changed a little bit- not a lot, but at least the move was in the right direction!

I think my mom said the moon is full tonight, let's hope that's what the problem was because I CAN NOT handle another afternoon like that one! Now I'm happy to say everyone is FINALLY in bed and sleeping- i think, so I can laugh about it! Yea for laughter, it sure does make things right with the world!

Addison has six- yes six teeth poking through and she still manages to laugh a lot, so surely I can manage it from time-to-time! I really do love my life and wouldn't want to change it for the world! A terrible, awful day of chaos at home is still a day I got to spend with my girls and I will take it anytime I can get it, as long as that chaos does not include any major injuries or illnesses!

Laughter is the best medicine!