Waving from a safe distance.
Okay, Okay, its not actually all fun and games here. I read somewhere recently that we can really beat ourselves up by comparing our 'behind the scenes' to others 'highlight reels'. Not one to ever want anyone to feel bad about themselves, I'll give you a peek at our behind the scenes day this week. Sorry, not pics....we don't seem to have the camera around for those not so cute times. huh.
So running errands on Friday was nutty! It was a busy morning of cleaning house, a quick bite of lunch and out the door to return some seriously over due books to the library and then to Aldi. In Aldi things were..."normal".... Rebecca begged for cookies until I let her buy them with her own cash, Levi insisted on toting a bag of giant marshmallows through the store and detected my sly move at the checkout to rid our cart of them. So yes, we have a bag of giant marshmallows in the pantry! Levi also ducked behind every stack of boxes he could and had to be nabbed from under the pastry shelf. Then I loaded the groceries into our bags with one hand while balancing a crying Isaiah on the other hip. Got everyone successfully loaded into the car and headed for Wal-mart. Again "normal". Levi ducked under a shelf and got a handful of cat litter to eat, I broke down and bought a kiddie pool on clearance, and after back tracking a couple times we were ready to check out. Guess whose wallet was still in the car??? Hauled all three kiddos back out to the car and don't you know I park way out so I have room to load and unload? Back into the store, now huffing and puffing to pay for my cart of necessities. One more trip to the car to open the back door and have our watermelon from Aldi drop out and roll to the aisle where two people stopped to let me know my watermelon was in the way. Thanks! I really didn't care because while our watermelon was apparently rolling Rebecca got herself in the car and shut her door completely. on. Levi's. Hand. From the scream I knew what had happened I raced around to that side of the car to see him jumping and yanking frantically trying to free his hand. Once free, my first thought was "he's maimed for life". Can't get a hold of Aaron for advice, no cell reception in Paducah Kentucky. Decided to try urgent care to check for breaks. Good news, no fracture, but the story isn't over yet. We get down to the xray part of the visit, one hour into the visit, of course. Baby is screaming for dinner and I'm trying to hold him on one hip, keep him covered with the lead blanket, and hold a two year old boy's hand still for the xray. Are you laughing yet?! The tech calls in a nurse to help with Levi because Isaiah is adamantly screaming about getting the blanket off! Take Isaiah down to our room to leave him with Rebecca, because once the door shuts Levi goes into panic mode with mama not around. Race back to tend to Levi when I hear a thunk and a screech because Isaiah got himself bounced into the door knob. (I know she was trying to help, but she isn't quite able to bounce him like mama.) So there I was with boys screaming at both ends of the hall. The doctor comes in shortly to let me go "You've got your hands full so you can just go home, we'll call you if we see a fracture". Haha They probably thought I was the old lady in the shoe and needed to get back to the shoe. Grabbed some pizza on the way home, didn't geel like cooking, put the groceries up and CRASHED! Thankfully everyone arrived in bed that night in perfect health, if not somewhat bruised.
Well, off to have another crazy month or more before I get time to post again. Hope your summer ends on a high!!!
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