Yesterday we almost went on an outing. The older kids asked if we could, and I said yes, sure, of course, but then an hour later we were still getting ready to go. This one needed a diaper change, now a clothing change, oh! now another diaper change, did everyone go to the bathroom? not yet? take turns! okay, hold on, I will help, where are your shoes, and your shoes, and your shoes? what happened to your—oh, well, let’s just change those clothes, yes we can, no really, really we must, let me just—there! okay, does everybody have shoes now? not yet? now? okay! but now the baby needs milk, hmm, hold on everybody, hold on—where did your shoes go? weren’t you just wearing them? can you find them again? can anybody help find shoes? again? until finally it was too late to start out and we had to do something else instead.
I know it doesn’t look like much, all typed up like that, doesn’t look like it should eat away an hour of the day. AND YET. Ahem.
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I hope you don’t think that I regularly leave my house, because “that” is typical of every outting here, and I only have two. And to think, only an hour will wipe you out for the rest of the day.
Yes. Totally wiped out. Lately I would happy to just stay at home ALL THE TIME FOREVER.
This is why, when my husband walks in at the end of the day and says, “Hey! What’d you do today?”…I bare my teeth and snarl.
And that seems like a perfectly reasonable response.
oh my. this is my day, except with a lot of crying. every. day. this. week. THANK YOU for sharing your day -it’s nice to know that ours isn’t the only house. Hope tomorrow is more fruitful!
Yours is never the only house, I promise. I vote we all should get more fruitful tomorrows!
Oh yes, I can totally see how that would eat up an hour, if not longer. Makes me just want to stay at home.
And we don’t even have snow. Figure in your winter weather and I say you *should* just stay at home!
Oh, have so been there. With two. I don’t know how you do it with five, ever!
I don’t!
So far with five, I leave the house as infrequently as possible! (I mean, it’s only been a few months, but still.)
Oh wow. I totally had that day today! It took me 2 hours to get myself and my ONE KID dressed in clean clothes with matching socks and shoes on the right foot with a coat on so that we could be at the other kid’s school in time for a teacher conference. I needed a nap before we ever left the house!
OH. YES. Getting outfitted is seriously nap-worthy! I’m always amazed that we make it anywhere, ever.
I’m voting with everyone else. I can’t believe that only took an hour. That’s an hour with just two kids. And I’m usually sobbing and vowing to start drinking heavily. Some day.
You’re magic.
There may have been some sobbing. And some whining. (From me.) There was definitely fresh-popped corn as a distraction method once I realized we had to give up, and chocolate for me when no one was looking.