today's I did list LOL because the to do list is too long!

Today I got up at the crack of dawn to wrestle my kiddo out of bed and get her eating and cleaned and dressed and combed and braided and onto a big scary bus that she ran to when she saw it coming (yes the bus is only scary to me) I played the two year old version of memory and watched Harold and the purple crayon and signed the boy up for VBS next week. Helped him with his report on Harry potter, and helped him wiht hsi letter to hsi new teacher, called the town to find out about the composter they sell, got the girl off the bus, tore the house apart looking for the checkbook because they only take checks, called Dh and found out DH has the checkbook in HIS car called town hall and convinced them to take cash for the composter. Put the kids in the car and drove to the town hall to buy the composter, wrestled with the five year old who hates deep stairways down to the recycling department where she proceeded to grab at the stack of papers the woman had there on the floor she was filing...two year old ran down the hall, while i was chasing her the five year old climbed into someone's office and started spinning in a chair The guy was nice said "ah there is nothing here she can break" ROFL he obviously does not know our Messy LOL


apologized many times, wrestled the heavy composter to the van while directing the 9 year old who was holding the girls' hands got the kids in the car when the nine year old suddenly remembered that he wanted to recycle our old cell phone and he had it in the car could he run in and put it in the box....:( it's 90 degrees out and it's against the law in our town to idle the car, can you imagine the fine you would get if caught idling your car outside the recycling office door? LOL but how can you say no to the kid...so he jumps out of the van to go back in and I move the van to a shady spot and turn off the engine the girls are hungry, the girls are fighting over who is more hungry than the other one LOL thankfully the kid didn't have too much trouble I worry sending him places on his own...I am not good at it!!!! I have anxiety the whole time.

Drove the composter back home to unload it...girls are crying because they thought they were going to a restaurant drive to burger king where the boy wonders out loud if waiting in the drive thru line is just as bad as idling the car...the kid has a point so we park and get out of the car to get food, that is fun NOT! get the food, get in the car and drive to the pediatricians office, because you cannot refill ADHD meds you have to get the prescription and bring it to the pharmacy with a valid drivers license to drop it off (don't need an ID to pick it up) we find out that the car seat laws have changed and The boy no longer needs a booster seat (thanks for putting THAT poster up pediatricians office)

then we went to a store to buy a shower curtain liner, but the little one had a diaper explosion and we have to change her and it is real bad and I used the last of the wipes, so we walk over to eh grocery store to pick up wipes, we found worm poop there and bought it along with some powerade for DH and coffee beans...and some other things that I did not know I needed

75 dollars later we were walking out of the store and see a woman coming out of the hardware store with a little pool "we want a pool" OK I did promise them a pool which I can't find and I see they have them here so we go in, besides I need some eye hook locks with springs on them because messy has been locking the boy in his room, so we are hoping the oens with springs will be too hard for her, but still allow him the use of the locks

we got the locks and the boy found a cleaner that is supposed to be as good as "Bar Keeper's friend" and non toxic earth friendly...he talks me into to trying it...I will believe it when I see it, I am addicted to BKF We didnt buy the pool because I don't want to walk to the car carrying it and the girls the parking lot at thsi store is a lot busier than the one at town hall KWIM?

finally I get to home goods in search of a shower curtain liner. this is where the kids coping points ended "I want a..." and Messy was grabbing things off the shelf the isles are too skinny you can't put the cart in the middle she can reach the breakable stuff
I will say we did not break anything but I am sure the staff there was happy to see us leave
it was really awkward too the kids are screaming and I say to the ladies there "I'm sorry for the screaming kids" usually you get an understanding nod, or a smile, or even a "oh we have kids too" kind of thing, but I got the cold stare from all of them the cashier that rang my stuff up looked down right mean.

we were supposed to meet Dh at the carwash later, it was too early and I couldn't get DH on the phone and I was TIRED! so I went home and sprayed worm poop on my garden! my cell phone has no signal at home and Dh never even thought I would go home so he couldn't get in touch with me, and he came home...it's hard to change plans with this family so against my better judgment we got into two separate cars and went to the BBQ place...the plan is to meet at the car wash and wash both cars while getting everyone soaked in the process...a fun summer family activity Don't worry we only spray each other with the one that is just water LOL but I messed up by going home, so we ended up at the BBQ place where the kids got mac and cheese (I could make this at home for next to nothing) and I got chicken, DH a salad
by the time we finished eating we didn't have time for the carwash so it was dumb that we took both cars but...what can ya say? we got home got the kids to bed and loaded the dishwasher sorted through some paperwork and sorted laundry while watching the Daily show!


now I am off to the 24 hour laundry mat, yes I still have not got sears to come and fix mine...it's not just them I am too busy to be home all one day lately, LOL and I still have to drop off the prescription at the 24 hour drug store

how did people live before the 24 hour places?

Now this whole post seems like a complaint, but in between the hard stuff I realized something

I am darn lucky

my kids are awesome even when they don't seem it

when I was trying to wrestle the attachment on the hose to spray the worm poop messy came up and sat next to me, she looked me right int he eye and said "hi mommy, what's up you seem depressed" LOL

now ok yes she was quoting a movie but still it was darn adorable!
And Moo got all her matches right in memory and how can you be upset with Harold and the purple crayon??? Messy LOVEs school and we got an email and her old teacher had her baby and we got a picture :) how cool is that?

life is good even goign to the 24 hour laundromat is good when you go at night it's quiet with jsut the sound of the machines running once in awhile a car will drive by but it's very peaceful...plus I don't have to hurry it's nice.

yes life is good

tomorrow we are going to try and manage the sprinkler park
obviously it's not in my town sprinklers are not allowed LOL