7:00 AM Both children wake up whining and crying for breakfast. Jack doesn't like the plate I have given him so he throws his bread across the kitchen followed by his plate. He then sits in his usual time out spot.
8:00 AM Schedule a doctor's appointment for Lilly at 9:30 for her severe stomach pain and accompanying issues that have been going on for 8 days.
8:30 Dress screaming children and myself.
9:15 Attempt to leave the house to take Jack to my friend's house (who graciously agreed to watch him), and have to pry away the iPad from two screaming children. Who continue to scream all the way to the car and during the car ride.
9:33 Arrive 3 minutes late to the doctor's office.
9:45 Greeted by a 12 year old boy claiming to be a medical intern.
10:20 12 year old intern finishes examining Lilly and questioning me 35 minutes later only to then tell me she will be examined next by the most senior Resident.
10:22 Most senior resident, who looks to be 24, comes to examine Lilly. Lilly tells him her ankles hurt too and he asks me when her arthritic pain started. What? He then examines her for 20 more minutes and tells me she is developing scoliosis of the spine and she might have had E Coli or Salmonella. What??
10:47 Resident finally finishes his horrible questioning and examining and goes to confirm with the
10:49 Resident returns to inform me that the Attending agrees with his vague diagnosis of possible E Coli and or Salmonella and she should NOT be eating fruit roll ups like he saw her eating during the exam.
10:49:30 I am enraged with fury and inform him my child does NOT eat fruit roll ups but she eats 100% whole fruit leather made from ORGANIC fruit. He then tells me that if her arthritic pain worsens I need to bring her in immediately. What??
10:55 Check out of doctor's office.
11:15 Pick up Jack who throws a cup at me, screams and has a time out at my friends house. Then we all leave to go home.
11:30 Children have a bland lunch in attempt to compensate for the possible E Coli/Salmonella outbreak that the child doctor diagnosed.
11:45 Jack hits everyone in the house, throws more things, screams, and goes to bed.
11:55 Lilly continues to tell me everything that hurts in great detail for the next hour until I tell her she needs to have some quiet time.
2:00 Nap time is over, the screaming is so bad that I just drag Jack to the car with no shoes so we can go to the library and the grocery store.
2:15 At the Library Lilly tells the librarian that she has finished her book chart and needs another one. The Librarian responds: "I hope you are taking time to play outside." Instead of saying "Great job, way to read books, small kindergartner." She says "I hope you are taking time to play outside." Which throws me into defensive mom mode where I say "Oh Lilly, do we play outside?" Lilly then replies "No." Which makes me want to drag her outside and leave her there so she can remember how much time she actually does spend outside.
3:00 Children scream through the grocery store and Jack tries to hit me with his airplane as many times as he can.
4:00 We are home and I make the children play outside with bubbles. Each of them have their own bubbles and they each scream and demand for me to look at their bubbles. This goes on for what feels like hours, but was probably only 15 minutes.
5:00 Carson and Alysson show up for babysitting swap night and I have the idea to create our own chalk festival since there was so much whining about not attending the chalk festival at Penn State.
5:04 Lilly and Carson get into a heated debate over whether Carson actually has super hero powers. Accusations of lying are thrown around between the children and I make many threats about cancelling our chalk festival if everyone can't play nice.
5:45 We eat dinner and the whining and complaining ensues. I begin to question my very being and what I did to cause so much whining in my life.
6:30 Jack has explosive diarrhea all over the basement and up his back. I put him in the bathtub where he screams and screams because I am attempting to clean him.
6:45 Finally get Jack into bed for stories where he screams because I only read him three stories. Meanwhile the other three children keep running upstairs screaming because they keep finding spiders in the basement. They then capture the spiders and attempt to take them outside. I am just grateful Lilly has friends to play with to keep her distracted from all the whining and screaming that seemed to take place today.
7:10 I sit at my computer and wonder why I have failed as a mother to have raised such horribly whiny children. Then I look at my blog and remember not all days are like this, and I am grateful.
4 comments:
I am so sorry. If you lived in NC, i would invite Jack and Lilly to go to the pool with Zoey and me.
Although, I laughed pretty hard at the playing outside bit. I'd be pissed at the librarian too.
You need to write a book.
That library bit was pretty funny to read. But I do hope Lilly is okay and that she doesn't really have arthritic pain.
What a miserable day. You should become a hermit like me ;)
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