The budding trees and the wind and the pollen made by sore throat/head cold much worse. My son kept leaving basketballs and scooters outside near the sidewalk which is against the house rules. I yelled at him over and over. The daughter came home and started playing with a swimming noodle. She accidentally whacked me hard in the eye with it, and I spanked her rear for that. I could've lost a contact lens like I did the time that my son whacked me in the eye with a toy sword.
The UPS delivery finally came around 4 pm, and I didn't need to sign for it though he may not have left it at all if no one had been home. The electronic thing that was delivered did not come with an instruction manual, and this transformed my husband into a giant mass of crabbiness. My son fell in the back yard and hurt himself, and the neighbor boy came and got me. As I was running to get to my son, I twisted my left ankle and did something to the muscle in my left calf. It now burns every time I stand on it. My husband made the mistake of asking how my day was, and I dissolved into tears.
By Saturday morning, I was having a hard time breathing, so I used some of my son's Albuterol nebs from his pulmonary doctor. I was limping and tired from coughing instead of sleeping. My husband was on a mission to rearrange the living room because our nine-year-old TV has bitten the dust, and we are getting a new flat screen. This will require getting rid of our old entertainment center that we've had since 1989. We affectionately call the massive piece of wood furniture "the behemoth". (We have a strange custom of naming almost everything we own; my van is named "Sara"; my husband's car is named "Frankie"; our house is named "Olivia". It goes on and on.)
So, we shoveled furniture around as my husband sunk further into his crabbiness. I couldn't lift the furniture with my leg the way it is. We kept finding Legos everywhere . . . even inside our stereo speakers. I had to deliver and pick up the son from a birthday party. The daughter fell outside on the sidewalk and our neighbor brought her in with blood all over her knee. The house looked like a tornado hit it. I had to keep using Albuterol. Well, you get the picture of how the day went on Saturday.
Today it rained. I promised the kids a trip to Dairy Queen if they would clean out the floor in their bedroom closet. My son found all kinds of things to drag out and play with. My daughter took all of her brother's folded jeans and pants off the shelves and replaced them with her clothes relegating her brother's clothing to the bottom shelf or the floor. I almost pulled my hair out, and it ended up being a much bigger mess than it was to begin with. I took them to Dairy Queen anyway and then we went to Target.
On the way to Target my daughter mentioned that she wanted to buy a new dress for a "Dad/Daughter Dance" that is coming up next month. I mentioned that she would wear her beautiful springy pink and white polka dotted swiss dress, but that we needed to buy her new shoes. She completely freaked out, screaming (and I quote): "Mom! That dress says nothing about who I am." In my confusion, I asked her exactly who she was. "Mom! Seriously . . . Hannah Montana, sequins, rock music!" Each syllable was getting more and more shrill and hurting my congested head.
On the complete opposite side of the coin is my son. He was changing into pajamas tonight, and he asked me if I would like to see how he keeps his ears warm. He put his dirty socks over his ears and looked at me and smiled. Yes, what we wear does say a lot about who we are, but HOW we wear things sometimes tells even more about us.
And as if I don't already feel completely out of touch with my kids, my son brought home a goody bag from his friend's birthday party. These are typically filled with trinkets and candy. This particular bag had a t-shirt in it, giant-sized candy bars, a light-up toy, wood whistle, marbles AND a hand-held device with seven video games on it in addition to a helium balloon and a giant tubular helium balloon with dinosaurs on it. What the hell??? The goody bags from my son's last party had a SpongeBob water game, a Darth Vader bracelet, candy and a card game. ! I know that my son has received gifts at past parties that I know cost in the area of $39. Have these parties gotten a little out of hand? Seriously though, I have to email the birthday kid's Mom. Those goody bags rock. I guess the goody bags that we create say a lot about who we are too.
I'm feeling a bit better this evening. The daughter was all tearful over her scraped-up knee. The son took his dirty socks off of his ears. The husband's unhappiness is dissipating. My leg feels better, and I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight if I can control this cough. Just as we are all "leveling out" from this roller coaster whirlwind weekend, it is time to start the school/ work week.
I've never been happier to see the end of a weekend in all my life.
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