The best laid plans…

This post will probably sound a little whiney, but it’s really about how we just don’t have control over everything!

Here was my basic plan for today, Thursday:

Get up, get everybody ready.  Send the girls off to school with Gran while Matt and I took James for his first doctor’s visit at 9am.

Get home still in the morning and clean up the house.  Move car seats around in the cars.  Give James a bath.  Basically just use the time when the girls were in school to catch up on things at home.  Get the house looking presentable since we’re having a photographer come over Friday morning.

Have Matt pick up the girls from school.  Finish any chores.  Eat dinner, have baths, go to bed early. 

Watch Fringe with Matt.

Here is how the day actually went (in a nutshell):

We got up and got everybody ready after a pretty bad night.  Little James just wanted to party all night long.  :)  The girls slept in a bit until 8:00 and 8:30 (yay!).  I had their lunches packed and outfits laid out.  Gran came over about 8:30 and finished getting them ready.  Matt and I left a little later than we’d planned, but still made it to the doctor’s office in plenty of time.  It was super busy for whatever reason (Maybe a Thursday thing?  I never go on Thursdays.) so we waited and waited.  The appointment went fine.  I’ll blog more about it later.  Dr. Harper did notice some jaundice and sent us to the lab for blood work.  That took forever too so we got home about noon.  Really not too bad and I’m thankful Matt was with me and the girls were at school, but it was easily a couple hours longer than I’d planned to be away from home!  We picked up from the morning, ate, took care of James.  Matt left to get the girls a little after 2:00.  I lay down while James was sleeping and got a little nap before the girls came home at about 3:00.  I managed to clean up the playroom (major disaster zone) before needed to feed James.  Then while Matt was warming up dinner, Joanna fell in the kitchen and split open her chin across the scar from the last time.  I handed off the baby to Matt for a diaper change and took care of Joanna.  Last time we took her to the urgent care place.  They put steri-strips and glue on her chin and it cost $500.  I decided I could do that for less.  Since the cut is on the bottom of her chin, it won’t affect her extreme beauty even if I make an ugly scar.  :)  So I left Matt with all three kids while I ran to Walgreens for supplies.  First I hooked the girls up with their dinner.  Meanwhile James had peed and pooped all over everywhere.  I got butterfly bandages and liquid bandage and came home.  I told Matt to call his folks for help.  There were just too many needy kids for us!  James needed to be held.  Natalie was tired and falling apart, and Joanna was in surgery with Dr. Mom.  I cleaned her up, glued her together and sent her to color with Mamma and Pop.  Matt and I were able to eat and get things cleaned up.  Thanks Mamma and Pop!  After they left I gave the girls baths, cleaned the kitchen (some), and got the girls ready for bed.  About then my back clenched up (still have major back pain – so need to build up my core muscles), which is why I’m sitting here typing instead of cleaning the house.  I was also hoping I’d get diapers washed early enough to hang them outside.  As it is, they’re washing now and will have to start drying tonight inside.  I really want to get James’ Fuzzibunz clean again for the pictures!  Better go start that final rinse…

It really wasn’t a bad day, I’m just stressing over little things.  I’m absolutely fixed on getting things organized and clean around here.  I’m letting the clutter drive me crazy instead of just enjoying my babies.  Oh and I discovered at some point today that now that I finally have a couple of Thursdays off at home with my hubby, Fox is airing baseball instead of my new favorite show Fringe.  Oh well, I have better things to be doing anyway.  :(