Monday, Monday, Monday

Oh Monday started out so great. Got up early, had a great breakfast Asher woke up dry in his first night of Big Boy underwear...things were looking good. Were is the key word here. Let me give you a glimpse in our morning. Everyday after breakfast we start with our day with story blanket time. This means each child gets their own blanket, their own books and I get about ten minutes of reading my book of choice before I read to each of them individually.
Today was no different and they were doing great, until Mason decided after his book he was done and he went downstairs. I still had to read to Riley so we kept on and he was down there for only about 5 minutes. And this is where it started...oh where to begin...books were all off the bookshelf, and they have A LOT of books. Legos (which I had already said NO you may not get them out you didn't pick them up the last two times) they were dumped scattered all over, light bright pieces dumped from their container...see where this is going...army men dumped from container kicked around. It seriously was like a monster took him over and he just started dumping and throwing stuff and did it very quietly because I can hear everything in this house. To say I was mad would be an understatement. So I decided he lost his one on one school time and he would spend it cleaning up his mess. Which still is not complete, but at least I won't be stepping on legos.
In the meantime I tried to start school with Madalyn and Riley all while being interrupted by our "20 minute potty timer" for Asher since we started potty training yesterday. During this time, I as nicely as possible, tried to encourage Mason to clean his mess.
Me, "Where are you going?"
Mason, "upstairs to go potty."
Well okay I guess that's a good reason. Until I came upstairs to find him getting into the brownies on the stove top from yesterday! And on my way up what did I find...a game he'd taken out and dumped all the pieces. AHHHHH! So heck with this off to bed he went to wait until lunch was ready. whew I'm thinking It's noon and I've almost made it to nap time, maybe after a good rest things will turn around. So I sit down to take a breather and write this haha only to find Asher has slammed his hands on my keyboard of my brand new laptop and now everytime I press the "M" key it minimizes the internet. oh man really? Come on God...help me out a little because everytime I think my patience has been tested to the end...here is comes. So after ten minutes I get that fixed and begin typing and get a cup of water dumped down my back..oops sorry mom says Mason.
Monday, Monday, Monday...please get better after lunch because we have lots of school to do still, a playroom to clean AGAIN and daddy is working late.

Just a glimpse...some days are so great and we have so much fun and others...well we are lucky we all survived the day and I'm thinking today is one of those days. I will feel successful if we're all still breathing and fed come bedtime tonight.

:-)