How blogging saved my sanity today ...

@#%&!!!!  Teacher Appreciation is today???
I thought it was on Wednesday the 3rd ( today is Monday the second ... there is no Wednesday the third!!!)

... this is how my day started.

I had been sick all weekend with this awful cold and apparently my brain was stuck in some Day/Night Quill cloud and forgot that Teacher Appreciation Day was TODAY!!!

This would not be a big issue, if I would not have the project for the ENTIRE class in my house,
...half ready ...GRRRRRR!!!!!!

So after I dropped off L at class I dragged Lulu back home, jumped into my bruised 4Runner to race through town and get wherever was needed to complete the HUGE project.

We came back home and Lulu and Dork were happy to spend some time in their little fort, playing with Mermaids ...

I was inside, making my way through the project, laying out pictures, rearranging them 100 times and trying to find the best way to display the self portraits of 35 children ...

As I said, it's a HUGE project!

Here are a few drawings ...

We needed one more pic to line them up in a certain way and since Lulu attends class with the kids whenever I help out I thought we'll just sneak her in :)

My favorite!!!!

When it was time to pick up L from school I found Lulu in her fort like this ...

After I woke her up we went down to school to p/u L and race home to complete the other three projects that needed to be done by tomorrow.

The Ls were both crabby so I put on a show and they vegged out for 30 minutes watching TV while I was sewing quickly two Coffee Cozies for L's teachers for Teacher Appreciation Day (that was supposed to be our present and a little Starbucks gift card).

Well I should know better than trying to sew "quickly" two Coffee Cozies after having not touched my sewing machine in ages ...

So after they ended successfully in the trash I kicked out the Ls to play outside in the sun for a while, while I was letting out my anger on the dirty laundry ... better them than the kids I thought!

They played so nicely in their little fort, it was like Happy-Lovey-Dovey-School.

LOVE the "other" two students on the wall ;)

Lulu doing some quick calculus calculations ...

It was getting late so I decided to start making supper.
The pot with water for the pasta was on the stove, oil and onions were nicely browning when I heard something.

A quick look outside and I realized that the noise was coming from the, by now, NOT SO "Happy-Lovey-Dovey-School" and screams where heard throughout the neighborhood.

Lulu: Him (meaning her sister) is not a nice teacher to me!

L : Well she pinched me in the booby and then sticked her tounge out at me. That's it. I am not teaching you anymore. Ever!!

Lulu: See, him being mean at me. waehaehaheaheaheahe....waeaehaehaheahe

Grrrrr

Yes, I had long decided to capture this completely screwed up day on camera for the blog.
If I have to go through such a rottin time I might as well share it with the rest of the world.
And since they were playing "so nicely" school out there, I thought better get a pic of that for the blog.
Click, click, click ...

OH SHIT!!!
The onions!!! .... BURNT,
 pot ... BURNT,
pasta water boiling over ....

Awesome!!!
Another look outside reveals that L is ripping off the laundry from the clothesline in an attempt to be helpful, half of it lays on the ground (I am lucky if Ed didn't do his business just before it hit the ground) and the other half is being thrown at the still crying student.

Seconds later the student, on her way trying to escape the angry laundry throwing teacher, falls off of the monkey bars and owie-screams are now ringing throughout the neighborhood ( that nobody has called CPS on me is a wonder. Whats wrong with these neighbors? Don't they care about the well being of these poor children???).

I race to try to console the student/patient but of course now she wants her Lillie.
What a day!!!

L swaddled Lulu in a huge blanket,

Turned on Barney (that is exactly what I need right now, a fat, purple, dinosaur singing "I love you") and then went back outside to be more helpful with the laundry ...

The frickin sparkle glue is running all over the "quilt",

 The pasta is completely stuck and clumped up and the house smells like burnt onion.

We scarfed down the "gourmet" meal and the Ls made sure to point out the sticky pasta to me a few times. When they asked what else they could eat I answered
"Nothing. Thats it. Eat it! I am eating it too!"

 Then I go into the bathroom to start the much needed bath for the Ls.
When I walk in I find a whole roll of soaked TP on the floor. WHAT ...???

Lulu proudly explains that she was a good girl and cleaned up her own accident.
I guess the 100 times I asked her "Do you need to go potty?" didn't help remind her often enough ????

I did not take a complimentary picture, I was too busy searching for the bleach to clean up the MESS! Meanwhile Barneys love songs are about give me an anurism and to top it off the Ls are now wholeheartedly joining in the chorus.

I walk into their bedroom turn around and walk right back out ...

A frickin Tornado has nothing on these kids.
I walk into the guest room (which is where the Ls actually sleep, since they can sleep togethner in one bed) and walk right out of that room too ...

L needed a little "alone time" in her room this afternoon and wanted to read A book ...

LOVELY!!!

There was only one thing left to do!

I waited until Pat came walking happily into the house, expecting his loving family to race into his arms.
Instead I told him to take care of HIS children and  ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Thats it for today folks.
I had a lovely day and I hope you enjoyed the recap of it and the corresponding pictures.

Ta-Ta for now.

(sing to Barny's song... I Love you.  You Love me.....)
"I love you! You love me! I am going to shoot Barney in his knee! With a .50 caliber and some extra bullets too. Won't you say you love me too!