Round and round the living room we went, with the boys and their kitties strolling right along. We were having a jolly time. Then the phone rang and I stopped rolling the baby for 1 second. And the screaming starts again(flashbacks to my sister's post when her Kate fell apart:She dropped her pencil.SCREAM! She dropped her candy. SCREAM! and so on..). At that moment everything went haywire--the boys competing for the biggest melt-down, the house looking like a bomb hit... 
and all I could think was "I'm gonna wake up in the morning and do this all again with no break in sight". I called John(around 5 times) and begged him to come home, ASAP. He peeled out of there, but by the time he got home, the boys were calm and he probably thought I was crying wolf.My house is still wacky and disheveled, but I don't seem to mind as much as I used to(before kids, when every item had its place or I chucked it). I even dragged Ollie's high chair into my bedroom so we could be with the rest of the family while feeding him.
So, with my stroller in the living room and the high chair in my bedroom, I am starting to feel like Pippi Longstocking. Though I think she had a horse on her porch.
"a-hope in-a-hay, and a-hope shah-nah"
My living room always looks like that before nap time. I swear every toy box and basket has to be dumped out in order for the kids to have fun. We even turned one of the spare rooms into a play room, but they just drag the toys out to the main room.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we need to get a horse on our porch like Pippi...then we can run away when it gets too bad :)
my living room looks worse than that and my child isnt even mobile!
ReplyDeletei laughed about the comment on me actually listening to a dr! yes i know, its quite shocking. but our pediatrician has been so respectful on our decisions with home birth and vaccines and such and i really respect his opinion so yes, i listened and its working so well! morning hours are still not ideal but hopefully soon...i dont mind it being gradual.
we finally made it to church today, i am so sad we didnt see you! whats your week like? this is long, i prolly shoulda just done an email!
and im so sorry about ollies ear infection, that is very sad :o(
ReplyDeletePoor you and Ollie :( Hope he gets better quick! Side note--- Pippi Longstocking's horse lived IN her house-- when I was little, that was what made me always want to be Pippi Longstocking :)
ReplyDeleteHm...When I watched the movie as a kid, I did remember the horse IN the house..however, in the story by Astrid Lindgren, she said the horse lived on the porch. When Tommy asked Pippi why her horse lived on the porch rather than in a stable, she said "he'd be in the way in the kitchen and he doesn't like the parlor".
ReplyDeleteso, not 100% sure where the horse lived.
oh, I LOVED Pippi Longstocking!! I haven't thought about those books in so long, not until I read your post. Now I think I must go check them out from the library for nostalgia's sake. And because I'm now wondering where that horse really was. :)
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