Ramblings

I’ve had one of those days that leaves my head spinning.  Patrick volunteered to take PJ to school this morning.  To say PJ was thrilled would be an understatement.  I think Patrick was just thrilled to have his car back and wanted a place to go since going to the “office” doesn’t require leaving the house any more.

I decided to bump up my weekly grocery run a day because we’re getting more snow tonight.  Got a text that a friend got great and bad news at an OB appointment today.  It hit really close to home for another friend who has been trudging through an extremely high risk pregnancy for the last 6 months. 

The dishwasher has been leaking all week but finally got bad enough last night that the towels on the floor weren’t nearly enough to contain the water.  When I came home my kitchen looked like a junk yard for spare dishwasher parts.  I was distracted by the mess and stuff and a phone call and Mia was late to school.

Got a call while I was on my way home from taking Mia to school from a friend going through a one of those too-bad-to-be-true times of her life.  The unfairness and cruelness of it all is really distracting me.  Was so distracted that I called my MOPS leader to make sure she knew which led to a whole other conversation about petty church politics.  Not sure to be sad or mad about that one.  It’s not my church and not really my problem but having been a family member of a church staff person at a church with similar petty politics, it still makes me mad and/or sad.  More mad I think. 

Ty fell asleep on the way home but thankfully stayed asleep when I moved him inside.  After he woke up, I realized I hadn’t showered this morning because I wanted to workout and shower when he was sleeping.  Patrick fixed the dishwasher. 

Mia came home looking like she’s been on the battlefield.  A collision at school resulted in a bloody nose.  We went after school to meet my friend in need.  Got stuck in rush hour traffic.  Was exhausted when we got home.  Made the kids sit in the car and listen to music while I took a 10 minute power nap.  Ty peed in his pants as he was standing on the stool trying to pull them down.  I guess 2 hours is too long not to take him potty.

The laundry’s piling up but at least everyone has clean sheets.

Everyone’s watching Curious George while I take a shower and mark lots of emails I need to respond to.  Speaking of George?  Have you seen him?  I haven’t since breakfast and I think it will make for a traumatic bedtime.  This is why we’ve discouraged comfort objects.

Dinner time.

P.S. I totally stole MckMama’s idea for Stream of Consciousness posts and called it Ramblings.