Can I have a do-over on today, please?
Round 1: First off it started at around 4am, not a good time to start the day. Took a while to get the baby back to sleep and by then I couldn't sleep because my brain was in one of those holding pattern things it does where I can't shut off the hamster wheel. Subject of crazy brain circles? - teething tablets. Yeah, Andrew is teething and it's frustrating because he is just cranky and miserable. So my brother told me to try teething tablets and this morning at about 4:45 I looked them up on the internet. First thing I see is a recall alert for Hyland teething tablets and I know he mentioned that name so suddenly I'm trying to figure out if I should call him and tell him not to feed them to my nephew anymore. I talk myself out of this because I'm pretty sure he would be cranky to be up that early (I know I was) and nothing could be done about the pills anyway. Also, I don't want to make him think I'm judging his parenting because I think they are doing fine but I'm sure I would end up coming across all "you're poisoning your child" so I just posted the link to the recall to their page, my page, and the page of another friend who also said Hyland was the way to go. Then I tried to go back to bed but mostly tossed and turned until 7:30 when I was awakened by my husband who was frustrated because our 7 year-old wouldn't get up and was going to be late for school and also because he couldn't find his shoes. I tried to calm him down and did the whole "where did you last see them" thing with him because he does tend to just kick them off someplace. The shoes were found behind the couch with a bunch of other stuff the same 7 year-old had stuffed back there instead of cleaning the room. sigh. Husband calmed down some and took 7 year-old to school. Have to deal with her later.
Round 2: Husband returns to finish getting ready for work and cheerfully informs me he will have to work this weekend. I bite my tongue on cranky remarks and remind him that it's his sons birthday today and this weekend would be a good time to have a party or something. Also, I ask him if he ever got a cake mix (I've asked him to do this a few times over the last week). No, he wasn't really thinking of the birthday, never did get a cake mix, and is still planning on working this weekend. He leaves for a quick trip to the store to get a cake mix. Comes back, drops off cake mix, leaves for work. April is okay with TV, Andrew and Jessica are still sleeping, I have vague hopes of going to sleep for just a few minutes. Baby starts to cry and phone rings, buddy of Jared's couldn't find Jared's cell number, can I give it to him. Yeah. Crying baby wakes up big brother and the day has really begun.
Round 3: Deal with diapers and food. Baby is cranky and Andrew is cranky. Get things settled down and go to check my e-mail. Find angry message from person not to be named about me sending a reminder to vote that somehow offended this person. Crap. The reminder was simple hope you vote and had a smiley face at the end. A SMILEY FACE!! How is that offensive? I checked the message I sent just in case I had spelled something wrong and put in a swear word accidentally or something. Nope. So I should have waited 24 hours to respond or something but I was already like 5 hours into my day at 9am and I wrote back that I wasn't questioning this persons life or intelligence and had sent the same reminder to A LOT of people. So I'm hoping this person is just having one of those days, I certainly am, and will be fine again next time I see them. Deal with some of the mess, start some laundry, feel beginnings of a headache and it's not even 10am.
Round 4: Sister-in-law writes to inform me that while they did say they were going to buy the Hyland brand of teething tablets they found out about the recall and bought Little Teethers (after consulting the pharmacist) instead. I missed that part. Now I feel like an idiot but I'm even more glad I didn't call before 5 to tell them not to poison their child. Spend a few minutes calling myself an idiot and questioning whether I should ever use the internet again because apparently I have problems. 20 minutes of research on the internet lead me to believe I am indeed an idiot because I can't figure out the pros and cons on the safety of the teething tablets. Medical jargon confuses me. People say they're great, but I'm undecided. Headache continues. I give up.
Round 5: Suddenly realize that if husband isn't going to be home on Saturday I have to get Andrew's pictures taken today (you will never be able to follow the logic on this one so don't try) so I call the studio and get an appointment for 5:30 this evening. Only available time is during dinner time for Andrew. Politely take appointment while kicking myself for not making two appointments and then cancelling one because this kind of thing happens all the time around here with husband's schedule and punctuality issues.
Round 6: Baby refuses to take morning nap.
Round 7: Lunch is very late and kids are cranky. I am hitting the edge of what I can handle. I type blog entry to vent it all out. Now I have to get back to work, I still have to be the mom.
