One of Those Days…..

Have you ever had one of those days that you just know you should have stayed in bed?! Well, yesterday was just one of those days….

1) I boiled over some chicken broth and water in preparation to cook some noodles for lunch! In itself that wouldn’t be a horrible thing, but at the same time I was trying to wash dishes AND scoop cookie dough!!! I really didn’t have time to clean up a mess!!!

2) And because I admittedly did not have time to clean up a SMALL mess…I went to put a pan of cookies in the oven and dropped the pan upside-down on the open oven door!!! NOW I HAD A BIG MESS!!!! I had to quickly scrape up the dough before it melted everywhere and baked-on! While cleaning up that mess I had to do all within my power to keep a hungry and tired (thus crying and needing Mommy’s attention) baby from using the open oven door to pull herself up!!!

3) I didn’t really get anything accomplished throughout the day except baking cookies, cleaning up the kitchen, and spending a nice, relaxing afternoon visiting with my BFF, Sie!!! Of course, that seems like a lot and it was all valuable for ME, but if you saw CJ’s and OUR pile of clothes that all need to be folded and put away, and if you saw the stack of bottles that needed washed, and if you knew that I wanted to make HOMEMADE egg noodles but ended up asking BH to stop and buy them at the store instead, and if you saw all the dust bunnies and fur balls accumulating on the floors, and if you saw the ream of cloth waiting to be made into curtains for the playroom, and if you saw Carmen’s scrapbook sitting with only 10 pages completed, and if you saw Carmen’s Adoption Book with only 2 or 3 pages filled-in, and if you saw all the gifts we’ve received in the past few weeks without a single “Thank You” note sent in return then you would understand why I say I didn’t really get anything accomplished!!! Of course that’s all stuff that would take more than a day, so why bother including it on a post titled “One of Those Days”? Because it’s only on “one of those days” that you even bother thinking about and fretting over the many things that need to be done that you just haven’t gotten to yet!!!

And while yesterday was one of those days in which I should have stayed in bed…today was the day Carmen should have stayed in bed!!!! She decided that she would exercise her lungs today through fits of screaming and crying for what seemed to be absolutely no good reason!!! If I so much as looked at her sideways it set her off!!! In fact, both she AND I were quite content to let her do her own thing, for as soon as Mommy got involved all bliss was ended and immediately followed by the kind of ear-piercing shriek that would wake the dead!!!!

I looked at her funny…she screamed!!!

Penny walked away from her…she screamed!!!

I held her…she screamed!!!

I walked away from her…she screamed!!!

I bounced her around and swung her in the air (which she LOVES)…she screamed!!!

I walked toward her…she screamed!!!

I patted her bottom and her back as she screamed so as to make that funny “uh-uh-uh” noise…she screamed LOUDER!!!

I fed her lunch…she wanted what I had, which was the same thing she had so when she realized it…she screamed!!!

I laughed…she cried!!!

I cried…she laughed!!!

I changed her diaper…she bellowed and complained (but did NOT scream)!!!

I cleaned out her nose that was full to overflowing with s-n-o-t because of all the screaming and crying she had done all morning…she screamed (OK…this isn’t unusual as she HATES when I clean out her nose. Can you blame her?)!!!

I fed her a bottle and put her to bed with her blankie…SHE SLEPT (and continues to do so now 2 1/2 hours later…guess the baby was tired, poor thing:( )!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes…these past two days, for both of us, have each been “One of Those Days”……………….

~ by shoolady on May 1, 2008.