End of the day update-wednesday

Today’s plans are a little better,

First I have to get in the shower

Make strawberry muffins-TOTALLY FORGOT THE BAKING SODA AND SUGAR, TURNED OUT HORRIBLE

Get kids dressed

Load the dishwasher and start laundry

Rob has a doctor’s appointment at 9:40am with the surgeon-SHE WAS VERY HAPPY WITH HOW WELL HE IS DOING

ROBS WORK CALLED AND WE HAD TO GO BY THERE AFTER THE SURGEON

STOPPED AT LIBRARY TO GET MOVIES, I GOT MYSELF 2 BOOKS AND THEN REALIZED I HAD READ BOTH OF THEM

Faith has piano at noon

4pm the girls have been asked to go to a library, there hula teacher will be there and would like a couple of her students there-OOPS THAT IS NEXT WEEK, GLAD I CAUGHT THAT BEFORE DRIVING UP THERE

Tonight I have to get all the laundry caught up, make sure the house is in great shape –DID THIS AND PUT SMELLY STUFF ON CARPET, I WILL VACUMM BEFORE SHE GETS HERE

MADE HOME MADE PIZZA FOR DINNER WHILE THE CRUST TASTED GOOD IT DID NOT RISE LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE

TOOK A WALK WITH THE GIRLS AND ROB, GRACE’S BIKE BROKE SO I ENDED UP CARRYING IT MOST OF THE WAY

HAD KIDS HELP CLEAN UP WHILE I FOLDED LAUNDRY AND PUT AWAY

WE PLAY UNO AS A FAMILY, EXCEPT MICHAEL, HE WAS MAD I ATE THE LAST PRETZEL

I have some other things I need to be working on, we got the paperwork for the thrift shop and I can take in 20 items a day that they are open, so I really need to get things there. I am hoping when we get home from his appointment I can get items ready and drop them off at piano.

I also need to get my office under control. I need to get progress reports written and turned in. I need to get all of the box tops together and mailed it. That one has to be a priority.

Okay Hope is up so I really need to get moving. I got really lazy last night and let things fall behind and I really need to be keeping things cleaned.

I do have a praise, if you read my Blog then you will see that last night I spit (accidentally, spitting is gross) all over my lap top and it would not work. I am happy to say that it is working just fine now.

I DID NOT GET ANYTHING EXTRA DONE TODAY BUT THAT IS OKAY. WE SHOULD BE HOME ALL DAY TOMORROW SO I SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET SOME THINGS DONE IN THE MORNING, I AM THINKING I MAY TAKE THE KIDS TO THE POOL IN THE AFTERNOON

HOME HEALTH WILL BE HERE IN THE MORNING BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TIME, SO I WILL GET UP EARLY AND DO THE DISHES AND VACUUM TO MAKE SURE THINGS ARE NEAT.

I DID HAVE A MINI BREAK DOWN TODAY, I DO NOT THINK ANYONE NOTICED, ROB ASKED IF SOMETHING WAS WRONG BUT I COULD NOT SAY WHAT IT WAS BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS MYSELF.

HAVE A WONDERFUL NIGHT, I AM SURE I WILL BE AROUND TOMORROW, HOPEFULLY RELAXING. I AM GOING TO TRY TO MAKE THE STRAWBERRY MUFFINS AGAIN TOMORROW AND MAKE BREAD

Day two
we had a good day. We ended up going to sams, sears, graces doctor, px, comissary, got robs hair cut. I took the older kids to the pool. Now it is time do a dressing change and go to bed. Rob will see the surgeon tomorrow morning. And hopefully when I wake up my computer will work again.

Oh my, would you believe that a mountain dew hurt hope, it fell on her foot. Would you believe I said we should punish it by emptying it so it could not hurt anyone else. Would you believe i got choked because it was spraying everywhere and I could not find the lid. Would you believe that i got so choked that i spit mountain dew all over the table and all over my laptop. So now my laptop will not work.

Day 1 of a month off work

Today has been a good day. A busy day but a good day. We woke up and waited around for home health to call. She finally got here around 9am. She said I was doing well on robs wound care. She also said she thinks that home health should come out twice a day. The funny part about that is that before she got here I asked Rob if he just wanted me to do it because it was taking her longer than we thought and I was worried about his meds would wear off. Is that not too funny that I volunteered! Please know that I completely do not enjoy doing this. But I did not want him to be in more pain than necessary. So when she left I asked Rob would if he wanted them to come twice a day and he said No, he really would like me to do it. That made my day.
After she left we went to CID (crime investigation division) to turn in paperwork for the home health nurses to be allowed on post. Then we went to his work and turned in paper work. They were nice and I can tell they are trying to help him get a new school date. When we left his work we went to game stop so he could get a new Wii fishing game to keep him busy. Then we went to target and then stopped at Wal-Mart. Michael broke our microwave plate and we are trying to find a new one. Then we came home and rested. Then the girls and I went to hula class. I have to admit I am really enjoying the class. We came home and let the kids play in the sprinkler while Rob grilled Steak for dinner. By that time it was time for evening chores and now everyone is in bed. I have about 15 minutes before it is time for Robs evening dressing change. I do not think we have any plans for tomorrow. I need to make a couple follow up appointments for Rob and then I may take the bigger kids to the pool tomorrow while Grace takes a nap. I do have to get caught up on laundry and keep the house straight

Not Me Monday

What a week or two it has been. And I truly hope you do not think less of me for all of this.

1. I did not forgot to read mckmammas not me Monday because I was in to big of a hurry to send her mine. Honestly I enjoy reading her blog for several reasons and it drives me batty when people comment only to say, okay I am first. Not me I would never give so much thought to someone else’s blog.

2. I did not ruin a batch of brownies because I did not follow the directions, I know how to double things but I was trying to talk on the phone and take care of kids. And I definitely did not then through the extra sweetened condensed milk down the drain before I was even done cooking. I am a better cook then this and I know how expensive trying new recipes are.

3.I did not force my 8 year old to talk on the phone, fix the broken drawer in the fridge and stir something on the stove all while I was banging into her arm saying mommy, mommy. I know she is only 8 and can not expect her to handle things like I do.

4. I did not convince hope to take the dog into my room and watch Martha speaks so our dog could learn to talk and even offer to buy him alphabet soup. All this so I could finish my baking without mistakes.

5. My 3 year old is not totally interested in the Bible because she has my husbands outdoorsmen’s Bible and it has fishing pictures in it. I have shown them the love of the Bible without making it about pictures and such.

6. I did not dry shave the bottom four inches of my legs when I got out of the shower and remember I had not shaved. It is summer and I know I need to shave my legs, not me because I know how much this makes my legs hurt and that I will probably be rubbing them until they are red now.

BIG ONE

7. Okay this was definitely not the conversation in my house because in my house we do not talk about bodily functions and if you get sick you clean it up yourself, honestly all my kids can clean up there own upchuck because I can not handle bodily things. So here was the conversation

Hope walks into the living room and says “look mom, someone peed in the soap dispenser:

ME, no they did not, the soap was green, it must have been watered down and is now yellow

Hope, no mom it is pee

Me: let me see that, ooh it is warm, ooh yuck the smell, it is pee (surely I would not feel warm and the be silly enough to smell it)



Me to hope: go pour that out and wash your hands

Me to kids: who peed in the soap dispenser, no comment from anyone?

Me to husband on the phone; someone peed in the soap dispenser

Husband to me: okay well it is sterile and can be put on cuts

Me to kids: okay if someone does not admit they did it, dad will come home and take it to be tested to see whose it is (I would never lie to my kids, and I surely would not assume it was my 12 year old son who did this, knowing it is totally out of his comfort zone)

Hope to everyone: OKAY, OKAY, OKAY, it was me

Me: why, why oh why would you do that, who would do that

Hope: I just wanted to see if I could

Fast forward to that night after I blogged about it and hope heard me on the phone

8. Hope to mom: crying, please do not tell anyone else

Me: why

Hope: because they will tell there kids not to talk to me

Me: okay do you promise not to do anything like that again

Okay are you ready for her response

Hope: BUT MOOOOOOOOOOOM, I DID NOT FILL IT UP

MOM; loosing it completely, what kind of children have I raised.

9. I did not look up the spelling bee on tues, wed and Thursday and even call my kids in to watch the spelling bee. Only to realize it is next week. I realized that on tues and wed and Thursday. I did have the timers on and was wondering why it did not go off

10. I did not trick my husband into taking me to the mall to WALK when really I was only willing to walk so I could stop at Barnes and noble. I know he really wants me to start walking with him every day and I need the exercise

11. I did not let my son start a blog because I knew he would have to practice spelling, grammar and typing. He does not even understand face book and my space



Okay after Rob got sick

12. I did not order my kids a large soda to share at McDonalds this morning because I was too cheap to buy 4 milks, I know I need to teach them healthy eating habits, I also most certainly do not order grape jelly every time we eat out to bring home

13. I did not smack my husband in the forehead and say, you do not have a fever you do not get a vacation to the bedroom, even though he is on three antibiotics and has a drain in his leg from a spider bite. (okay this was day one before things were so serious) I know he needs rest and I know I want to go to bed when I am sick and in pain.

14. I did not almost loose my temper with the army on Friday and say something a good army wife would never say. I know better than that, I have been trained better than that.

15. I did not encourage my kids to watch TV and play video games all weekend to keep them quiet while dad was resting

16. I did not take school work into the doctor’s office and have DH help me with it, I know that was the last thing he wanted to do but they needed to be busy



After Rob was admitted

17. I did not order my husbands food wrong and him get cereal with no milk and sausage and diet pepsi, I think it was all the hospitals fault because the lady taking the order could not come in the room with us because she could catch Robs bug. Surely a good wife would have realized what she was doing and made sure he had good food

18. I most surely did not find a plunger in the bathroom sink, ten minutes before home health comes in, I know things need to be kept really clean

19. I did not scare my husband during our first bandage change, by putting on gloves and coming near him and then stop, take a deep breathe and then out loud say “he bought a boat behind my back, he bought me the worlds worse mothers day gift, he took me to a fishing even on valentines day. I would never scare him like this just to see what he would say. Really I had been crying for 2 days because I was so scared of hurting him. I did not also change his bandages while my children were fighting over whom could read the best and not staying In bed.

19. After I calmed down from changing robs bandages I was not setting in my chair relaxes and my dear daughters come in and do this:

Mom LOOK, what someone put in the toilet and I had to stick my hand in there and get it out. There was a piece of clean gauze in the saline so I dumped it and washed my hand but forgot to flush. Surely she would have learned her lesson the other day after peeing in the soap dispenser.. I am capable of keeping a clean sterile house, I know I can, I may loose my mind but I can.

20. I did not hit my husband in the back of the head because he was over doing it yesterday morning when I left him home with Michael while I went to church. I would never do such a thing; I do love and respect my husband.

21. I did not have 20 not me Mondays, I am a better person than this. I do not think I need a award for all the things I have done wrong this week. Let’s see how about Hershey bars with mountain dew a the new chondra pierce DVD