Yummily and anti-socially boycotting this holiday by hitting the sack around 8-ish. Hip, hip...
Worst Part(s) of the Day-
8 reasons to end '08:
1. Liam woke me up at around 1am with his screams (and they were not screams of delight to ring in the New Year...). He was screaming bloody murder like a newborn with colic. Right away I thought, great--ear infection. I picked him up and he didn't feel feverish, but he wouldn't be consoled either by my cuddling, so I went to get the meds. I gave Tylenol and then Motrin 'cause he seriously would not break his crying fit. I really thought something was emergently wrong for a few minutes. I kept asking if something hurt and he would not respond with words--just wails. After almost 1 hour (1 hour!) of him screaming I put him back to bed--I was stumped. He promptly climbed out of the crib (still screaming), walked down the steps like a man on a mission and went into the kitchen. Still screaming his head off he got his kitchen stool, pulled it over to the snack cupboard and grabbed a bag of pretzels and then said with a whine, "pretzel." Are you kidding me??? The child is screaming like he is being tortured for nearly an hour and it's all because he wants a snack at 2am?????
2. Despite the kids being ready to rock to go at 6am, we did not/could not successfully leave the house until 9am for the sitter's. Slow and unproductive morn. (Perhaps due to choppy/crappy sleep on mama's part.)
3. Because we live in an ungodly cold region, when I went to drop the kids off at the sitter's my car door lock mechanism froze...it was not frozen shut, it froze in such a way that the driver's side door could not shut. Nice. Super ghetto style I had to drive home holding the door with my weakling left bicep. I then spent the next 2 hours unfreezing it (in the freezing cold garage) with a hairdryer and a screwdriver. Seriously?
4. I went to mail packages and waited in the slowest of slow lines. Once I got to the front the postal man said I had the wrong boxes and I had to step to the side and then get back in...blah blah blah (I'm was gonna go mildly postal...)
5. I went to work for only 1.5 hours of my needed 4 hours...I have a moun-TAIN of work!!!
6. I missed my out-of-town friend who was to stop by my house at 12-ish because I was uber late with the non-productive stupid-o morning.
7. I packed the kids up to go the Y to I could blow off some steam with a good workout in the afternoon. The kidcare was closed early due to New Year's Eve...of course.
8. In the evening we went to pick out kid movies so Scarlet could stay up 1 hour later for the madcap holiday. She and Liam were so crazed in the video store that I had to nix it mid-way through waiting in the check out line.
Good bye 2008. It'll be fine in '09. (I'm hoping.)
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