Wednesday was nothing short of exhausting.
I had spent Monday taking care of Liam with a high fever of 103.6. Monday night Ruy got a fever and I woke up in the middle of the night feeling feverish and was so cold and achy that I could.not.sleep! My right breast was so sore and I felt so awful that it was pure torture to get up and take care of Jude the whole night. Then Tuesday morning both boys woke up without a fever and thankfully Jude and Alanna seemed to be on the mend from their colds, however, I spent the day feeling like I was dying. It's hard enough taking care of four kids when you feel perfectly fine, but add having mastitis to it and well...it's a lot harder! I spent Tuesday doing as much school with Ruy as possible, which somehow we ended up doing pretty much a full day of school. The house was pretty messy most of the day and I turned on a Wild Kratts at 7pm just so I could sit on the couch and nurse Jude while the kids were entertained and I wouldn't have to be up talking or playing with anyone. I was just feeling way to cruddy to be dealing with anything. I pretty much never ever turn on tv past 4pm for the kids (unless Ruy and I are having a movie night after the 3 youngest go to bed), so they thought they were being spoiled and didn't mind in the slightest. I had another rough night Tuesday night but thankfully not as bad as Monday. I decided to go to see my midwife on Wednesday which brings me back to why it was so exhausting....
I got up Wednesday morning and decided to go see my midwife about getting on an antibiotic to help clear up the mastitis. Normally I want to avoid antibiotics as much as possible but I didn't want it to get worse and I was really having a hard time feeling like doing anything (even though I still had to do everything), which is just not good when you have four kids. My appointment was at 1:30pm. I needed to get diapers and a few other things. The thought of making lunch and cleaning the kitchen again after having just cleaned up breakfast, was too much. So I opted to leave a little early and get lunch out. We went to Chick-fil-a (of course) and then went to Wal-Mart. I got some new nail polish, paper for school, toilet paper, protein powder, and diapers. I won't know what to do with all the extra money I'll have when I don't have any kids in diapers. Yes, I will know actually but seriously...diapers cost way too much and can we just all agree right now that newborns poop way too much! :)
After Wal-Mart we headed to my appointment. Thankfully we didn't have to wait in the waiting room but long enough for us to get our hands washed (Wal-Mart carries all sorts of diseases!) and then I was called. And I'm so thankful we only had to wait a few minutes for my midwife to come see me. She said it was an infection and prescribed me the antibiotic. She treated the kids to some fruit snacks to help keep them busy while we went ahead and did my 6 week postpartum discussion. Fruit snacks to the rescue! I'm thinking after I have another baby we won't fit in the tiny midwife rooms any more. I'll have to have someone either come with me to every appointment and keep some kids in the waiting room or leave some at home. Good grief...how.you.know.you.have.a.big.family! Seriously though I love it all. Hectic midwife appointments and all.
Anyways, we left there and headed home to give Alanna a nap and then later that evening I would go back out and pick up my medicine. The afternoon went pretty smoothly. The boys watched Old Yeller while Alanna slept. The movie pretty much blew Liam's mind! He'd never seen it before and after it was over he took our dog Duke outside and tried to get him to act like Old Yeller but to his dismay, our dog just wanted no part in chasing Liam or fetching.
I made dinner and then Alanna really wanted to take a both so I had her and Liam just getting into the tub when I all of a sudden remembered that it was Wednesday and Ruy had AWANAS!!! It was 5:45pm and we needed to leave at 6:10pm to get him to Awanas on time! I quick called to Ruy and told him to stop washing the dishes and go get ready to go. Then I gave Liam and Alanna a quick bath. While I was dressing them in their pjs, Jude started screaming to be fed. I finished getting everything ready to go and then fed him for 10 minutes. He wasn't near being done nursing but we had to leave. As I was scrambling to get everything together so we could leave, Ruy and Liam were arguing and Jude was screaming. I rushed all the kids out the door, grabbed the carseat (Jude was in it) grabbed my cell phone & the Ergo, locked and shut the front door....
And then before I took even one step away from the front door I knew what I had done. I had left my keys hanging by the door with the diaper bag!!! I could not believe I had just locked myself out. In all the rush and commotion, I had just not stopped to think about if I had everything. Oh and just some information..it was 6:15pm and it had rained all afternoon so my yard was wet and muddy. It was about 60 degrees. No one had coats on. Jude had no socks on. But thankfully I had a small blanket for him.
My husband was working so I quick called my mom who has a spare key. She said she's be over in 15 minutes to let us in. Thirty minutes passed and I got a call from her saying that "she had backed her car up into a ditch while she was backing up in her driveway and that she couldn't get her car out of it!" Seriously!!! I can't make this stuff up people. So...I called Nathan. No answer. I texted him what happened and then called another 15 times. I finally stopped calling and decided he would call back as soon as he saw the text obviously. When he called back he was on his way home to let me in, but it would be thirty minutes before he got home. When I got off the phone with him, Ruy had the genius idea to turn on a movie on Netflix. Why had I not thought of that an hour ago???!!! After spending an hour keeping the kids on the porch and from running into the dark, wet, muddy yard, fighting, jumping on me, nursing Jude, trying to keep him from crying and being cold, playing rock papers scissors and all sorts of other non sense...a movie was a very welcome thing!
We all snuggled up on our little bench on the front porch and while I nursed Jude again, Ruy held my phone and we all watched Christmas Winnie the Pooh. I was so happy when Nathan got home and let us in. By then it was 7:45pm. Ruy missed Awanas, I didn't get to pick up my medicine, and it was now bedtime for all the kids and time for me to shower and sit down and do nothing but drink some tea and relax.
These are the crazy memories that my kids will probably always remember though. Ruy said it was fun. I can laugh about it now that it's over but in all honesty...I didn't think it was so funny when I was going through it. I tried to stay calm and not get upset with any of the kids but I may have gotten unnecessarily upset a few times within that 1.5 hour time period.
I think I will be quadruple checking to make sure I have my keys with me before locking the doors from now on. Or maybe my kids shouldn't be distracting me by fighting and crying as I'm trying to get them all out the door...
I can dream can't I!!!
:)
*Excuse the horrible quality of these photos. It was so dark and I only had my cell phone.
Anyways, we left there and headed home to give Alanna a nap and then later that evening I would go back out and pick up my medicine. The afternoon went pretty smoothly. The boys watched Old Yeller while Alanna slept. The movie pretty much blew Liam's mind! He'd never seen it before and after it was over he took our dog Duke outside and tried to get him to act like Old Yeller but to his dismay, our dog just wanted no part in chasing Liam or fetching.
I made dinner and then Alanna really wanted to take a both so I had her and Liam just getting into the tub when I all of a sudden remembered that it was Wednesday and Ruy had AWANAS!!! It was 5:45pm and we needed to leave at 6:10pm to get him to Awanas on time! I quick called to Ruy and told him to stop washing the dishes and go get ready to go. Then I gave Liam and Alanna a quick bath. While I was dressing them in their pjs, Jude started screaming to be fed. I finished getting everything ready to go and then fed him for 10 minutes. He wasn't near being done nursing but we had to leave. As I was scrambling to get everything together so we could leave, Ruy and Liam were arguing and Jude was screaming. I rushed all the kids out the door, grabbed the carseat (Jude was in it) grabbed my cell phone & the Ergo, locked and shut the front door....
And then before I took even one step away from the front door I knew what I had done. I had left my keys hanging by the door with the diaper bag!!! I could not believe I had just locked myself out. In all the rush and commotion, I had just not stopped to think about if I had everything. Oh and just some information..it was 6:15pm and it had rained all afternoon so my yard was wet and muddy. It was about 60 degrees. No one had coats on. Jude had no socks on. But thankfully I had a small blanket for him.
My husband was working so I quick called my mom who has a spare key. She said she's be over in 15 minutes to let us in. Thirty minutes passed and I got a call from her saying that "she had backed her car up into a ditch while she was backing up in her driveway and that she couldn't get her car out of it!" Seriously!!! I can't make this stuff up people. So...I called Nathan. No answer. I texted him what happened and then called another 15 times. I finally stopped calling and decided he would call back as soon as he saw the text obviously. When he called back he was on his way home to let me in, but it would be thirty minutes before he got home. When I got off the phone with him, Ruy had the genius idea to turn on a movie on Netflix. Why had I not thought of that an hour ago???!!! After spending an hour keeping the kids on the porch and from running into the dark, wet, muddy yard, fighting, jumping on me, nursing Jude, trying to keep him from crying and being cold, playing rock papers scissors and all sorts of other non sense...a movie was a very welcome thing!
We all snuggled up on our little bench on the front porch and while I nursed Jude again, Ruy held my phone and we all watched Christmas Winnie the Pooh. I was so happy when Nathan got home and let us in. By then it was 7:45pm. Ruy missed Awanas, I didn't get to pick up my medicine, and it was now bedtime for all the kids and time for me to shower and sit down and do nothing but drink some tea and relax.
These are the crazy memories that my kids will probably always remember though. Ruy said it was fun. I can laugh about it now that it's over but in all honesty...I didn't think it was so funny when I was going through it. I tried to stay calm and not get upset with any of the kids but I may have gotten unnecessarily upset a few times within that 1.5 hour time period.
I think I will be quadruple checking to make sure I have my keys with me before locking the doors from now on. Or maybe my kids shouldn't be distracting me by fighting and crying as I'm trying to get them all out the door...
I can dream can't I!!!
:)
*Excuse the horrible quality of these photos. It was so dark and I only had my cell phone.
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| Ruy was doing a creepy face here but there was no light so you can't even tell it's him hardly. |
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| Trying to talk to our dog through the door. He was just slightly confused as to what was going on. |
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