hump.day

its official...i am have become one of those parents who cant talk about anything else but their kids and who only seem to have one brain wave and its always tuned to their children's channel. is this what happens to all parents?? i am laying in bed and i cant sleep because i am planning out their school lunches in my head...debating yogurt over peaches and goldfish over chex mix. seriously!?? i lost a solid half hour of sleep because i couldnt stop making their lunches in my head!? what is going on here!?? thats terrible news.

wednesday was a looooooong day. we had a very hard time getting up in the morning, i only slept for 3 hours because of studying...abby tried to stay home from school because she has convinced herself she is sick. no fever, no throw ups, no coughing...out the door she goes. chris did not want to get up this morning, no amount of motivation would do. finally everyone is downstairs and we do breakfast, we argue over the remote and we actually leave the house a little early because i was sick of listening to it and ready to pass them over to someone else. i have learned my lesson, i didnt even ask what they wanted in their lunches...hence why i stayed up the night before planning them in my head. i didnt give them a choice, just made their lunches and put them in their backpacks.

oh, but i did mess up...of course. not only do they get a lunch in their backpack, but their mom packs them a snack with a lemonade as well. well, apparently i made a big mistake on tuesday because i made abby regular lemonade and she only likes pink lemonade. but she forgave me and said she tried to drink about half of it. what a selfless person she is. so, i didnt make that mistake today...pink lemonades all around. i definitely dont want to screw up mid-day school snack time.

also the other debacle of the morning...cause we all know there couldnt be just one. abby's hair. apparently the child never brushes it. she has hair that goes all the way down her back and i looked at her before school yesterday and was like, no, we need to brush that. it was a flashback to my own childhood...and not a good one. i thought i was going to have to do what my dad did and take her to supercuts in her pajamas to chop it all off because she had HUGE knots all over the place. it seriously took me 20 minutes and soooooo much detangler to get a brush through her hair. then i just put it in one braid down her back so we didnt have to ever go through that again. at least not on my watch.

the kids are at school and i come home and study some more...being a mom and being in school just dont mix that well. i was so tired. i studied, went and took my test...which went surprisingly well and then came back and tried to get in a little nap before they all came home. that didnt last very long, i think i was barely dreaming when abby was ringing the doorbell. no after school activities today so i knew it was going to be a long afternoon...with the rain and plenty of hours before bedtime. we manage to get homework done early and everyone kind of does their own thing until dinner time.

dinner was the easiest it has ever been and things went so smoothly i wanted to check their foreheads and see if they were feeling okay. chris actually ASKED for dinner...a first. he never wants to eat. abby had leftovers from the night before...it was a breeze. strange. i didnt even try to bring up the shower idea, heaven forbid we take one two nights in a row...i figured they both walked in the rain a bit today...the night was going so well, why ruin it with hygiene??

everyone up to bed without too many complaints and i think they actually fell asleep by about 9 which is a miracle. i guess maybe as the week wears on they are getting more worn out and that is definitely working in my favor. unfortunately as the week wears on, i am getting more worn out too!! i have another test and i have to attend the 4th grade wax museum presentation. good news is that i am only 2 more days from retiring my life as a chauffeur and chef and hairdresser...yea!!