I live in a circus right now. Seriously I do...no joke! What's that? You want to know why? Let me tell you...
I woke up this morning and I could have been given a lot of different nicknames (ie Green Giant, The Hulk, etc...). I woke up with green spots. Not small spots...BIG spots!! Trenton fell asleep last night and woke up in the middle of the night saying he thought he was going to throw up and he couldn't go back to sleep. So I let him color in my bed, not on my bed, but on multiple pieces of paper so it wouldn't get on my bed. I told him that he needed to clean up and get in his own bed when he got tired because Derek was coming home. (I've let him do this before and never had a problem) Well, I guess Trenton lost his green marker in my bed. Alas, it ended up underneath me somehow and I got covered with it in my sleep. (No, we still have not found the green marker.) So needless to say my day started off, well, colorful.
I am sick right now so that doesn't help my patience level, but it was fabulous having Derek home today because he let me sleep. (Thanks honey!) Well, after Derek had to take off again for the day all heck broke loose to put it mildly. We have a family in our church that needs dinners for the week and I got put in charge of finding people that could bring meals to them. I got a phone call back from someone and the conversation lasted less than 2 minutes. I come out (while I am walking out I hear the toilet flush mind you...you will find out about this later) and turn the corner from the office and there is crayon EVERYWHERE on the tile and on the wall. Kaydon I guess found one of Trenton's crayons and decided he wanted to make a picture. I went to go get my Magic Eraser only to find out that I am out (trip to the store tomorrow to get it off the wall). I walk back down the hall and go into the bathroom and there is water everywhere on the floor.
Now you need to understand something. Kaydon LOVES to pretend he is going to the bathroom and then flush the toilet so I figured that is what he did when I heard the toilet flush. Boy was I WRONG!! Kaydon somehow got his hands on one of my sponges and decided to flush it down the toilet I guess. So I got to go "fishing" in the toilet to get it unstuck and then I cleaned up the mess. Well by this point in time I was angry but I didn't yell (I am trying not too...it was hard but I didn't). I put the kids in front of a movie so I could have a little bit of time to cool off. I didn't even go into the other room. I was on the tile next to where they were at and I was sewing about 4" of fabric really fast. I look down where I am sewing and in that time Kaydon managed to get a bottle of water and open it. I look up and he is pouring it ALL over my wood table. I don't have a fancy table...it's cheap, it warps very quickly. I run over, grab a towel that I needed to fold off the couch and wipe it up. After I get the puddle of water cleaned up I look at my table and there drawn on my table in permanent marker is clouds. Lots of big fluffy clouds....thanks to Trenton.
I lost it. My children are in bed. I cried afterwards and wondered if I should even have any more kids because I felt like I obviously can't control the ones that I have. It was a hard, stressful day. My children drive me crazy and there are times I feel like in a couple of years I will have to be checked into an insane asylum, but they are amazing. I can laugh about it now-I don't know if it's a "I've lost my mind and gone crazy" laugh or if it's an "my life is just funny" laugh yet.-but I love my kids. They really are the light of my life and I don't know what I would do without them (even when Kaydon gets into the fridge and paints "art" on the floor with the eggs he just threw down on the tile).
Now you know why I live in a circus. I hope it made your day happy. I know my first thought was about a saying that my mom has at her house that really upset me before, but after today I totally understand. It says, "Grandchildren are your reward for not killing your own children."
