Lady of Leisure.....isn't that a joke! Do women like that even exist? Not at my house anyway, until last Friday. This past month has been a struggle....it seems that this winter my family has managed to catch every possible germ known to man, and a few that might not be known. This month started with Mia having strep and Sophie having an ear infection during Spring Break. Spring Break ended with a beautiful weekend and Mia coming to me on Sunday night complaining of a headache. I brushed her off a few times and finally yelled to Todd to give her some tylenol (kind of just to shut her up, I will be honest) and when he went to give her the medicine he touched her head and said, " I think she has a fever." Low and behold, she did....103.7. So, no school and a trip to the Dr the next day....she had the flu. Two days later, no reprieve in the fever and a throat and mouth covered in sores....back to the Dr. Now she had some funky viral something. A week and a half later, she finally made it back to school. Only a few days later, Todd gets the viral mouth funk...high fevers and mouth in a mess....I am bombing the house with lysol and quite frankly, my patience is wearing thin. I guess I don't properly acknowledge my husband because when he isn't able to do anything....I find myself ready to scream. Even if it just putting a load of clothes in the washer, any little bit helps! So, by Friday last week, I am going down fast and biting everyone's head off. Now, being the prudent planner that I am, I readied myself for a marathon Easter shopping event with the girls on Good Friday. Luckily, Todd read my stress level and planned for someone to keep them. Fighting every homebody urge I had to stay in the bed and watch tv all day, I realized that if I didn't get up and go then we would all go to church on Sunday looking like last year's Easter eggs.
Good Friday was a rainy drizzly day and I headed out thinking I would stop and go here and there, at my leisure, without the girls to drag in and out of the car every second. Boy was I wrong! The rain was bad enough and then apparently I wasn't the only one who had the day off Friday! Imagine that!! All my shortcuts to avoid traffic became long cuts and by an hour and a half in, I had witnessed 2 wrecks. I honestly was beginning to think the filming crew for Candid Camera was behind the next shrub. I went into Target only to have the girl at the return counter stare at the wall for 5 minutes before finally realizing I was standing there waiting. Next, I got in line behind someone who insisted on price checking the 100 items in her buggy before she would agree to buy them.....ugh. Finally, I managed to start into a store and as I was walking up I could see what appeared to be a 3-4 year old girl standing with her arms thrust out hanging onto the door frame. I could tell her mom was begging with her. She wouldn't go in or out, just stood there and screamed. Her mother was trying to bribe her and coax her, and I couldn't tell if she didn't want to go into the store or if she hadn't gotten something she wanted and was refusing to leave. Now, this has happened to the best of us...our beautiful angelic children manage to turn into devils when out in public. And while we secretly want to go all "Madea" on them, we don't because we know someone will call the police. :) You could tell that this poor Mama was struggling not to snatch the kid up by the hair of her head, but was instead trying anyway possible to diffuse the situation. I truly wanted to walk over to the little girl and say, "Now listen here you little turd, your Mama-you know the one that gave you life, keeps you feed and clothed, and makes sure you have a roof over your head-is trying to keep from choking you. The least you could do is let go of that doorway and get your little tail to the car." But, I didn't....knowing that it would go right over her cute little head. Instead, I gave the Mom a sympathetic smile....knowing how she felt, cause Lord knows I have been there. She lightly smiled back as if to say, "I am ready to go home and if I ever get this kid to move out of the doorway, we will be out of here like a bolt of lightning." When I left the store, they were gone so I assume that she either let go of the door or the store called the police...ha ha. I only made it to 3 stores and by the time I got back home to my girls, I realized I was glad I wasn't a "lady of leisure"...they always make things so much more exciting.
Saturday we had egg hunts and pictures. Sophie decided at the pictures that she would not open her eyes.....not sure what that was about. So I guess we will have a set of pictures with Sophie smiling and squinting.....yay. :) She finally managed to open her eyes for a few. Easter morning we got up to go to Sunrise service at church and Ella says...."Mom, I think I have a fever." Yup, 102.....and it begins again....
In other news, Sophie and I got a late start and arrived too late for her Easter egg hunt at school. She was so excited and when she saw all the kids coming out with basketfulls of eggs, she looked at me and at her empty basket and back at me.....yes, I felt about that tall.. MOM OF THE YEAR, right?? Luckily, her sweet teacher took care of her and made sure she had eggs. Funniest thing that day was this sweet little boy in her class who doesn't get to have sweets and he was literally smashing cupcakes into his face. Luckily, I'm "that" mom who does donuts for breakfast. :)
