Thursday, July 14, 2011

All before 7am!

"MOMMM!....I'm All Sticky!!!"
This was the first words out of my 4 year old's mouth this morning.
Oh no, I thought to myself. How could be possibly be sticky already, he hasn't even gotten out of bed yet! I laid down the sopping wet towel I held in my hand and rushed upstairs to figure out why we were sticky.
Where did the sopping wet towel come from at 6:30 in the morning? Wellll let me tell you that this was one chaotic morning. Which as my friends tell me is nothing new at my household. I guess the crazy stuff happens so often that I don't even notice it anymore and just mistake it for life. That's what I think it is anyway, just everyday life at it's finest. So let me start at the beginning. At 5:30am when the alarm goes off....
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP Torture to the ears! I rolled over and pressed the snooze button.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP "Okay i'm up already!" I grumbled to the alarm clock.
I stumbled into the bathroom and started the shower so it could warm up, as I do every morning. Except this time afterwards I went and laid back down in bed. OOPS! But I was so tired. For some reason I hadn't been sleeping lately. Maybe it had something to do with the 4 yr old that just started a habit of sneaking into my bed in the middle of the night to cuddle.
Forty Five minutes later I wake up...more like jolt up...and sprint to the bathroom to find the floor flooded. What a bummer. Another mess!, is all I could think. It took all of my clean just folded bath towels to mop it up. After mopping that up I headed downstairs towards the laundry room to fetch more clean towels. On my way there I had to walk through the kitchen....which resulted in me stopping in the kitchen...with my mouth wide open, jaw practically touching the floor. "OH NO!" I said almost in tears. The counter-tops were covered in water. I looked up at the sealing expecting the worst, but to my surprise...nothing. Well how the hell did all this water get on the counter-tops if it didn't leak from the ceiling and nothing has melted or spilled???...I started my super mom inspection and found water dripping from the corner of a cupboard.
I took a deep breath then opened the cupboard. You got to be kidding ME! The cupboards were soaked, along with all of the food I had just bought the night before at the grocery. Well, I guess I know how the water got on the counter-tops. While finishing off the couple of towels I had left to the flood runover in the kitchen I hear "MOMMM!....I'm All Sticky!!!"
I dropped the towel in my hands and rushed upstairs for the next disaster of the morning. (Keep in mind I'm suppose to be getting ready for work!) My youngest laid there still in my bed where he had snuck into about 4am, looked at me with pathetic eyes and held up his arms.
"How did you get sticky?" I asked
As I got closer I had to laugh to keep myself from going insane.
GUM! How did you get covered in GUM??!!! ( As I think to myself...is the bed sticky, am I sticky? he was cuddling with me the last hour before I got up??? And that explains all the gum wrappers I found in the kitchen this morning when I was cleaning the flood reminence...)
"I must of fell a sleep with it mom."
" You didn't have gum when I put you to bed?!"
A beautiful start to the day. And All Before 7 am!

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Stuck in the 80's

Seconds after my youngest baseball game ended the sky grew pitch black with heavy rain clouds. We raced the rain to the car. When we arrived home the power was out due to the storm. The whole street was out giving the country side a very eerie touch. I proceeded to light the candles and place them around the house.
"Mom, can we play the Wii?" Jacob asked
"No sweetheart we do not have any power right now. Let's play a board game!"
"That's lame, Can we watch tv?!"
"Noooo, we have no power"
"Can you turn on the lights and charge my DS?"
"WE HAVE NO POWER! Which means no tv, no lights, no cooking..."
"Ah Mannn, it's like we're stuck in the 80's!!!"
I smiled real big then bent down to give him a hug.
"I love you" I said.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Breakdown


Oh the agony!
My child started to cry out of no where. I knew that he was in the kitchen alone so I had ruled out his brother hitting him....and I did not hear a crash so he didn't fall, hmmm, the sound was terrifying almost like it was the end of the World!
"What's wrong Brent?" I shouted!
"The BATTERIES DIED IN THE DSSSSSS!!!"
I looked over at my husband and we both started laughing uncontrolably. Seriously, having a breakdown like that over an electronic device! Brent walked into the living room, DS in hand, still crying.
"It's okay sweetheart, just turn it back on and start over"
"But I was almost done with that levellllllllllllllllll"
Trying to cover my giggles I thought of something.
"You know", I said to my husband, "if that had been my computer at work and I had lost what I was working on I think I would breakdown and cry like that as well!"
His crying may of seemed out of place at first but the more I thought about it the more it was justified. Don't get me wrong, there are better ways to deal with frustration then dropping to the floor and screaming NNNNNNNNoooooooooooo WHYYYYYYYYYY MMMMEEEEEE, but I could definitely understand his pain. That is something I never had to deal with as a child since electronics in general were still new but it is something my children will have to deal with a lot. If your hard-drive crashes you can lose hours of your favorite music, papers you worked on forever for school, reports you spent endless nights typing for work, passwords, pictures, your entire life! This is the generation for technology and it is relied upon too much! But what more can we do than just keep up. Learn from these mishaps and back everything up, even if it's the third level of the toy story three game.