Today was a total roller coaster ride. I got up at 5:40 to welcome a daycare kid at 6:30. I love that girl, I always have a terrific time with her. Today was no exception. Every 20 minutes she was running to me and saying, "I love you, Stephi!" Such an adorable little sweetheart. I snuggled with her and watched cartoons until Hayden got up at 8:30. I knew immediately upon his entering the room that he did not feel well. Now, I don't know about everyone else's kids and how they work-but when Hayden isn't feeling well he doesn't hunker down or want to be calm and quiet. He is wildly, insane, bouncing off the walls crazy. He won't sit still, he runs all over the place, he shouts and makes weird noises, and he jumps and flings. Constantly. I don't know why this happens when he is not feeling great, but he has done it since he was a baby. I suspect that he knows that if he sits still for a few minutes, he is likely to rest and fall asleep, thereby missing some life changing event that may or may not happen at our house. Just for clarification, some life changing events rarely happen at our house. Oprah does not live here, after all. However, when he is seriously ill, like when we had strep, he sits still. That's when I know to be concerned.
So today, he was just dealing with some congestion and a bit of a head cold. Hence the wild craziness. Cebelle woke up with the same bit of congestion and her reaction was to be snippy, hateful, and rude to anyone who happened to be near her or who had the gall to speak to her. She has alternated between biting my head off and smothering me with snuggles and hugs. Needless to say, these things made school very difficult for us this morning. There was a lot of whining and tears and frustration. And we won't even talk about what the kids did.....
Other than that, our day was pretty normal. Once school was finished and daycare kids sent home, I took Hayden and Cebelle upstairs for their showers. During the winter, they only shower every couple of days because they deal with horribly dry skin like I do. They always whine and moan and complain....nobody ever wants to take a shower. Then once they get in there, I can't get them out. The spend 30 or more minutes just hanging out in there.
We came down and had some dinner. During some conversation, Hayden turned around and said, "What the HELL was that?" Now, to be fair, he has been warned about this before. I'm not sure where he picked it up. I generally only curse when I am very angry and that doesn't happen very often. It has previously been explained to him that even if he hears an adult saying those kinds of words, that they are in no way acceptable for children to say. I told him that adults are responsible for their own actions, but that kids didn't have all the knowledge to make those kinds of decisions and take on that kind of responsibility. As he is a pretty intellectual soul, I figured this would be enough. Apparently, I was completely incorrect. As this is the fifth or sixth time he has been caught saying it, he has now been threatened with getting his mouth washed out with soap. I could tell that when he was saying it, he was waiting to see how we would react. Unfortunately, I laughed. Don't judge. I tried really hard not to. It didn't help that mom and dad started laughing and then were trying to disguise it as coughs. We will see how seriously he takes the threat. I hate the thought of washing his mouth out with soap. I have never done anything like that before and I'm not even sure why that was the punishment that came out of my mouth. But if I have learned one thing from my kids its this: NEVER EVER make a threat that you won't follow through. Because the second you do, they will start stomping all over you. So if it comes down to it, I will be washing his mouth out with soap. And I imagine that it will be much more painful and traumatic for me than it is for him.
I'm getting ready to put the kiddos in bed now. Jeff has another late rehearsal night, so they haven't seen him since Monday evening. Thankfully, the show that he is doing for ART, the actors reparatory theatre goes up next week so he will be back to being home after 6 every night soon. In the meantime, I'm going to get a lot of reading and crafting done, because I will be without him nearly every night next week! (at least until 10 or so...)
I hope that your day was terrific....thanks for joining my adventure!
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