my unbelievable day

I can't believe this really is my life.

Thursday March 22, 2012

12:00 AM-- Wednesday night with the girls turns into a Thursday morning bash!

1:00 AM-- We finally call it quits. It's been real. I love my friends. We have the best ward ever.

1:20 AM-- Arrive home, feed the baby.

3:30 AM-- Wake up to Ro crying. She's poopy in a major way. Change her diaper/pjs and stumble back to bed.

4:00 AM-- Simon's up and wants in my bed. I give him a blanket and put him on the floor.

5:00 AM-- I wake up with two little feet in my face. He snuggled his way on Daddy's side and now he wants me out of the bed altogether.

6:00 AM-- Baby up again. I bring her back to bed with me. Three becomes four. Love our king size bed.

7:00 AM-- Everyone's awake. Breakfast, scriptures, sign off progress reports.

7:45 AM-- Kiss my man goodbye.

8:00 AM-- Pick up Lincoln on the way to school. I love this early morning drive through the mountains. It's beauty-full.

9:00 AM-- Clean up breakfast, dress the kids, start laundry. feed the baby and put her down for a nap.

9:30 AM-- Realize that while I was getting the baby down, Simon was going through Daddy's night stand. He has spread Vick's vapor rub all over a box of condoms and has stuck those on the wall in our bedroom. very... um.... creative.

10:00 AM-- feed the boys crackers, cheese and bananas. Lunch will have to happen after naps..

11:00 AM-- Work with Zack on a few sheets of homework while Simon plays legos.

12:00 PM-- Read to both boys (yertle the turtle, dr. suess) Try to put Simon down for a nap. He is so hyper and crazy. I try hard not to laugh while recording everything he says on my facebook page. "you poopy stinky, mom. Dad plays tennis and hits the ball and is so nice and so cute. And I need to get lots of bullets for my gun. Hey. Hey! mom, cut the pickle." all in one breath.

12:45 PM-- Simon finally crashes. I wanted to crash too, but I had condoms "glued" to the walls in my bedroom. Must get a move on.

1:00 PM-- Shove the condoms back in the box without wiping them off individually. Zack tries to show me the picture book he wrote about Batman and Robin. It's 15 pages long and actually very cool... but I don't really want to see every.single.page.at.this.very.moment.

1:30 PM-- change the sheets on my bed, put away clean laundry, scrub my bathroom while blasting Adele.

2:15 PM-- wake up the sleeping babies. Zack tells me he's "stressed out" because we don't have any small ziplock bags. So thrilled to see that he's made us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the park. Lunch is late and it's on the run. I grab a box of caprisuns on my way out to the car.

2:20 PM-- Pick up Jane's boys. She's celebrating a night alone with her man. An anniversary celebration that was postponed after she lost her baby.

2:25 PM-- Pick up Emily and her two boys. LOVE that my van is so big and that we can go places with friends.

2:35 PM-- Pick up Ben and Luke from school. We were a little late, but that's okay. They play football with their friends after school and prefer to be picked up late.

2:45 PM-- Head to Spring Mountain Ranch.. it's state park just a few minutes away from the school and it's one of our favorite places to be! the weather is perfect. 83 degrees and breezy.

3:30 PM-- Emily and I chat about meeting/dating our husbands. Our boys (all 8 of them) are climbing trees, having stick/sword fights and playing in the dirt. I undress Roma completely and let her chill out on a blanket completely naked. There is no one else in sight. except Penelope, the cow.

4:00 PM-- We tour the ranch house just before it closes. There is a secret passageway in the old house and the boys love it! Ro has clothes on at this point.

4:30 PM-- We take the long hike to the lake. The boys beat us there by a long shot and are halfway around the lake by the time we arrive.

5:00 PM-- Decide to leave the ranch even though no one wants to. Loved visiting with Emily on the way home.

5:30 PM-- Aaron calls after leaving work. he's on his way to play tennis with his league. Thursdays are his night to do what he pleases. And he pleases to play sports.

6:00 PM-- after feeding the baby and letting the kids play for a bit, it's time for homemade pizza. Simon helps me with the dough.

6:15 PM-- I tell Simon and Ben to tell the rest of the boys to come down for dinner... but make sure to wash hands first!

6:30 PM-- the boys mold their dough into the individual pizzas. I hold the baby and feel pretty amazing for keeping things under control. two extra kids... no problem.

7:00 PM-- the kids decorate their pizzas with veggies and cheese. Just as about they are supposed to go in the oven, Mason says, "Hey! There is water coming down from your ceiling."

7:01 PM-- I run upstairs to see that Simon chose to wash his hands in my bathroom. He pulled the stopper on the sink and kept the water running. water all over my bathroom floor.

7:20 PM-- the mess the in the bathroom is mopped up. Grateful it wasn't a toilet flooding. (hey, it could be worse.)

7:25 PM-- Come down to find that Simon had taken everyone's homemade pizza and flipped them upside down. There is sauce and cheese and dough everywhere. I scold Ben and Luke for not keeping a closer eye on him. Ben is bouncing Roma on the couch and responds with, "Um, kind of busy taking care of a crying baby here." I laugh because the whole situation is hilarious.

7:35 PM-- I un-mangle (is that a word?) the pizzas the best I could and pop them in the oven anyway. There was a pan of breadsticks if worse comes to worst.

7:45 PM Aaron calls me on his way home from tennis and asks me if the kids and I are going to meet him at his basketball game. It would have been fun had I not been up to my eyeballs in pizza sauce and a flooded bathroom. No one had eaten and it's just not in the stars.

8:00 PM-- Simon is SO HUNGRY that he helps himself to a picnic while I am cleaning up the pizza mess. He spread a spongebob snuggie on the kitchen floor, gotten dirty dishes out of the dishwasher and was spooning peanut butter into his mouth. I decided it was time to start taking pictures of my day... this is becoming a monumental mess.

8:30 PM-- we FINALLY sit down to eat dinner. The kids are starving and exhausted from hours at the park. Mason says a sweet prayer for dinner. I love these six boys at my table.

9:00 PM-- Ro barfs on me. bring it.

9:30 PM-- Everyone in jammies. We pull out the hide-a-bed upstairs. I change three poopy kids in a row. Simon first. He has a bad rash. Coat his red bum with desitin. Mason next. He wants to wear his Captain America underwear over his diaper. Roma next. She is so sleepy and growls at the camera when I try to snap a picture.

9:45 PM-- Lights off. uh oh. Simon is missing. I find him in my room fingerpainting with desitin on my window. This child is going to be the death of me.

10:00 PM-- While I am cleaning up the windows, Simon and Zack start fighting. I ask Zack if he hurt Simon (because he is screaming in pain) Zack said he didn't hurt him. All he did was punch him. I was drinking water when he said this and I literally choked on it because it was so absurd.

10:30 PM-- Zack claims he needs a drink of water. I tell him he can get one. Next thing I know, Ben and Luke are upstairs complaining the the little boys came into their room, turned on their light, jumped on their beds and woke them up. Ug. Where is my husband??

10:35 PM-- Aaron walks through the door. He tells the boys a bedtime story. They are all laughing their heads off.

10:45 PM-- Zack still says they can't sleep so Aaron tells them they can come downstairs and have chocolate milk while he eats dinner. I don't think so... it's bedtime and that's that. I am the meanest mom ever.

11:00 PM-- Everyone finally asleep. Aaron tells me about his day and his basketball game. With only a few minutes to go, the refs call a double forfeit because the teams can't get along. What is it with men and church basketball?? Sad I missed the fights.

12:00 PM-- In bed. Enjoying my fresh clean sheets. Blogging about my crazy day. Did it really happen? yes, it did. Only wish I had taken more pictures to document it better.

Goodnight. Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite.