Just one of those days

Yesterday was plain awful. Isn't that how the song goes?

My day started with this:

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and also this:

That is the result of pushing the snooze two extra times and your children not getting the memo. They usually play in their room for a little while in the morning so I thought I was safe. Nope.

These pictures are after 30 minutes of cleaning and I didn't show you the tub because well its was full of paint and painted children.

Here is what I learned yesterday morning:

• water based poster paint is the only paint that should be in a home with children
• stainmaster carpets are THE ONLY WAY TO GO with children
• Ripping out the carpet in the masterbath and replacing with tile was a great decision
• SEAL YOUR GROUT SEAL SEAL SEAL (a lesson learned too late)
• shop vacs are your best friend with paint in carpet
• 20 extra minutes of sleep might cost you 4 hours of hard labor cleaning

Yeah pretty much a bad morning. I went out for some retail therapy after this and that seemed to make it worse. It's Alexander's birthday tomorrow and I went to pick up some spiderman cupcakes with rings. That is all he wanted for his class oh and hats. I had the hats went to smiths they said they were out of spiderman rings. No big deal I will get the rings from Walmart. Walmart is all out of rings. Target doesn't carry rings. Albertsons is out of rings. WHAT IS GOING ON. Nobody has rings. So I run to Party City and they don't have any rings either!! Who is buying up all of these:

So I finally go to Party City and find these:


I bought 18 of them and called it a day. That took 5 hours with Jamison and Eva. FIVE HOURS. But when I drove home I was grateful to come home and be home. So much for retail therapy more like retail trauma.

I hope your days don't start off like that.

The bathroom is all clean the paint came right out of the carpet but the rugs are lost. Can't win em all. Heres to tomorrow a much brighter and warmer day!

GROSSSS!!

Daniel was at work yesterday (in our neighborhood) and he found this:



First on the handle of his shovel and then it went into the back of his truck! Yes that is right it is a Tarantula!!! IN OUT NEIGHBORHOOD. I am guessing they live on the outskirts of the neighborhood because there is a lot of sand and nothingness out there. Anyway its totally gross and it doesn't help that I have these fake spiders and snakes and scorpions all over the house because the kids are obsessed with the Halloween decorations! I was doing laundry and there were two scorpions in there and then I walked up the stairs and there was a black snake there and everytime I turn around there are big giant black spiders all over the place. My adrenaline has been running all day!

Miriam

and the winner is...

I might have strep throat. I went to urgent care because of the short breath and feeling of suffocation all day long and especially at night and all the other symptoms. They took a strep test and it was negative so I guess thats a big maybe?? My tonsils are all swollen (no wonder its so hard to eat or drink all my water) and gross and white with pus. It doesn't explain the headaches and suffocation feeling. Oh well.

He prescribed Robitussin with codine and the infamous Amoxicillin. I say that because When Alexander was diagnosed with Asthma they gave him Amoxicillin. Then last month when Eva was sick for 3 weeks they prescribed Amoxicillin. It makes me wonder if its a catch all. I have seen it work so thats good. Hopefully I can breath again in a couple of days. I HATE being sick I just sit on the couch all day cause I can't breath. Blah I hope it goes away.

Miriam

Why do I forget to put the markers away at night?

This goes through my mind every time I wake up and find the markers everywhere. This was today's 7:30 am finding.

At least Eva was safe in her bed.