So How Was Your Day?

I will not allow the blog to become my job.  I will post stuff when I want to or need to...so you won't see a post everyday.  But I hope when I do post you enjoy them.

So how was your day? 

Mine started out fighting kids to get dressed and ready for school.  Then, when they should have been getting dressed, half of them went to Easter Baskets and got handfulls of candy to eat while they were getting dressed, or after, or on the way to school.  Then there was the 6 year old, who stole an entire solid chocolate rabbit and was hiding under the dining room table trying to eat it all before we had to leave....Don't worry, the candy is gone now....I ate the rest of it...ok, not really, but I'm already tired of this crap 3 days after Easter so the candy has disappeared....I will eat it slowly.....BAHAHAHA! (Evil Mom laugh..)

After I finally kicked the kids out of the car at school, I headed for the Independent Living Center where my Dad is to deliver his most recent Walmart order.  Then back home to start some laundry, dishes, etc. with my 28 year old special needs daughter.  Within about 5 minutes she started throwing a huge fit, unfortunately she doesn't speak, so I just have to figure out what is wrong.  I did, and she was happily watching Doc, otherwise known as Back to the Future II!

I settled in on the couch after starting the dishwasher and washer and dryer and the phone rang.  It was a girlfriend I don't talk to often so I thought maybe we could have a nice long chat.  Instead, she let me know that she had just seen an obituary in her local paper, my previous town, and wanted to let me know my Ex died on Saturday.  GREEEAAATTTT!  My Ex was 53, I'm sure he drank himself into the grave. (I might or might not talk about that another time.)  But I am still in contact with his grandmother, who I still call Grandma.  I don't speak to her all the time, but at least 2 or 3 times a year.  I called her and she told me she was in a Nursing Home now and had only been there a week or two.  Her Power of Attorney is not a family member, in fact he ran her over with a church bus once, I think guilt led him to be her POA.  I talked to him after I talked to Grandma and he told me her mind was going and that she had been in the Nursing Home for about 4 months.  I will be visiting her on Friday so I can assess the situation myself.

I have also been going through my Dad's Life Insurance information lately to make sure the beneficiary information is up to date since we lost my Mom almost a year ago.  Tomorrow I will FAX my POA to the insurance companies who would not talk to me today so that I can get the information I need. 

Then the kids came home from school and started screaming and fighting and looking for candy.....just a normal day for them!  In the meantime I was still trying to talk to Life Insurance companies who could hear kids screaming, dogs barking, and television in the backround....sooo proffesional.

I had to forcibly take my 6 year old outside to pick up the coat he left on the basketball court in the backyard, and then make him pick up said coat when he threw it down on the floor in the mud room after I made him pick it up.  I had one in the tub who apparently planned to stay there until tomorrow with her sister keeping her company in the bathroom.  When she got out of the tub I made her brush her hair....I AM THE WORST MOM EEEEVVVVVEEEERRRR!  When she was done, I asked to run the brush through her hair myself....yep, it was ugly, but I still have a pic from the '80s and it comes in handy.  Oh and while I was detangling her hair I heard again...YOU ARE THE WORST MOM EEEEEVVVVEEERRR!

They are all in their PJs now, and upstairs with their Dad.....he will be screaming at them anytime now.  (We won't talk about where he was, or the whining he was doing while I was going through all of this.)  OH, there he goes......he deals with them for a few hours a day....can't wait for summer vacation!

Have a great night!