Yeah, So This Is How My Day Started...

Adventures in Parenting

Almost Back to School

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Well I had two mornings left before school starts for the boys and hoped to make those two mornings as relaxing as possible. Now, that's funny! That's always a nice thought. So here's how my day started...

Before taking a bath, I had to clean out these two big drink coolers for my 12-year-old son because he was planning on doing a lemonade stand in front of our house with a couple of friends today.  

The two coolers belonged to his friend. They were clean inside but the outside was really dirty like they had been stored outside. So I wasted some of the hot water I needed for my lukewarm bath by cleaning these two containers, which wasn't asked of me until the night before.  

I already saw my relaxing morning slipping away from me the night before when I caught my 12-year-old trying to clean them out himself and had to stop him because I needed to give my 6-year-old a bath. I said, "I'll do it in the morning." Sigh... By the time I was done the water wasn't that warm for my bath.  

I'm trying to hustle in the bathroom with blow drying my hair, etc. before my girls got up. I left the bathroom to go downstairs and told "someone" to not go in the bathroom, because I wasn't done. "Someone" goes into the bathroom anyway because apparently they needed to use the bathroom urgently.  

When I left the bathroom there was a lot of toilet paper in the toilet from me doing my morning things. Wiping my nose, blotting my face, using the bathroom, etc. I do these rituals every day and always flush and pick up before I leave the bathroom, which is why I told "someone" to not go in there. I wasn't done.  

Well, part of the reason. The main reason was that I wanted to finish the little bit of "me" time I had left. I really have to scrounge for "me" time around here. I'm lucky if I get the time to bathe and even drink water sometimes, really. I come upstairs and hear "someone" yelling that the toilet was flooding!! That is when I started to scream, especially when I saw water just about all over my bathroom floor!  

I screamed inhuman sounds that I never knew I was capable of making and began throwing towels everywhere. And then screaming some more like a banshee woman, because water was going and going and. . . going. I finally cleaned up all of the water with towels and then spent the next hour cleaning the floor and toilet with Lysol.  So, yeah, that's how I spent my relaxing morning... One more day left before school starts. Yay!! :D