Tuesday, June 16, 2009

"CHAOS!"

This moment I had today was almost an outer body experience. I have had a lot of hectic moments with my three kids, but this one tops them all. This was like brain over load.

So later today I went to use the bathroom. The girls were fine just playing in the family room with their toys, and Jaxson was down stairs watching TV. When all of a sudden I heard a “BOOM”, and then I could hear Madelyn crying really hard. The only thing I could think of that could of fell was the table top to the high chair. I had placed it on the counter and so I thought that maybe Maddy pulled it down and it fell on her and then landed on the tile floor. So I quickly finished in the bathroom to see what had happened . When I got to the family room I looked down to where they were and all I could see what a massive pile of dirt.
We have this little table the sits in the corner behind a love chair. Its actually is hard to get back there but on the top of the table sits this really big potted plant that we have had for about 10 years. Madelyn got back there pulled on the table, I assume, until the pot slid off the table and fell down. I also assume that for some lucky reason she didn't get hit by it just scared that it fell, because by the time I got there Madelyn was almost was done crying. I Made sure Madelyn was okay and then realized her and Addison had hand fulls of dirt and dirt in their mouth. So I don't know what to do because I have the amount of a small bag of dirt spilled all over my carpet and two babies with dirt in their mouth and hands. I get the dirt out of their hands and mouth and decided to place them in my bedroom with the door shut. I knew they wouldn't like this and cry, but I needed to put them somewhere were they would be safe and not be able to get into the mess. When I get back to the family room I notice that the front door was open, and Tres is missing. “What!” How did my front door get open? So Tres had escaped outside in our little community. The problem with that is that we get in trouble when this happens. It seems like there is a lot of old people who don't like dogs and is always is tattling on people with dogs.
Anyway I know that it's going to take me 10 to 15 minutes just to clean up so I decide I better go get Tres outside. I get outside walk to my grass and see Tres is a couple of houses down. I call for him but of course he doesn't come. Right at that very moment my big toe hurts so bad I screamed. I looked down and there was this bee stuck to my toe. “I HAD GOT STUNG, AND THE BEE IS STUCK!” I have to pick the bee off my toe then pull out the stinger. Instantly my toe swells up.
Now up to this point it truly has been less then one minute long. After I pull the stinger out I limp to get Tres because my toe is hurting so bad. I finally get Tres inside and began to clean up my 15 minute mess while all this time my girls are stuck in my bedroom crying.
The only word to describe that moment is “CHAOS!”

6 comments:

Toph and Brittany said...

What is it with your kids and dirt! j/k. I can't believe you got stung by a bee. That actually happened to Toph a couple of weeks ago, but the bee wasn't stuck to his foot. I don't know how you do it, I have a hard time with just one kid!

Amy said...

Don't you love hearing "What did you do today" from your husband when he gets home. Sounds like you had a really long day!!! You are very brave to have a dog and three small kids.

Melissa said...

The song that comes to mind is- "momma said their'd be days like this, their'd be days like this my momma said" Oh, Mandy consider this a initiation into the mommy club. Love Ya!

Rebekah said...

Someday, you WILL look back on this moment and laugh. For now, go ahead and cry.

Emilie and Branden said...

That is HILARIOUS! Reading that makes me feel way better about losing my marbles on a daily basis. And why are there so many anal retentive peeps in TS?

Kari said...

Ohhh sad!! That is the worst when it piles up like that and of course always is accompanied by crying!