A moment to breathe!

Yesterday and so far today it's been a whirlwind of crazy fun with the kids!

Yesterday:
Went to the jewelry store to pick up my ring that lost a diamond (again).  This time there were 3 other ones loose too. I guess that happens when they replace diamonds.  The whole ring gets worked and things come loose.  They were told to tighten everything this time, so hopefully 2 weeks after getting it back I won't be sending it back AGAIN.

After that we headed over to the bank.  I had to deposit money into the kids' accounts.  Of course I did the drive through since I had the kids.  Well, I knew that would be a mistake.  They put Girl's money into Boy's account.  Now I need to take money from his stash that I forgot to bring with and put into Girl's piggy bank.  I had a gut feeling they would screw it up.  Oh well.  It is an easy fix, just annoying.

We then headed to Toys-r-us to exchange our baby monitor.  I had called the company and agreed that the fact that it was losing a signal every 2 seconds, LITERALLY, was not normal.  They wanted me to send it back and they'd send me a new one.  Uhhhh, NO!!  I have a baby and can't be without a monitor for a week.  Idiots.  So they said to bring it back to the store and exchange it.  Toys-r-us was very good about it and didn't put up a fuss at all.  They were more annoyed with the company for sending me to them than annoyed with me.  I also picked up a pair of khakis and shirt for Boy for $8 (on clearance) since we were there.

After some lunch I headed to Rainbow since I had to get groceries.  I was so impressed when I looked at their produce section when I walked in.  Then I got closer ... ewwwww.  The oranges were all dented in, the cantelope were all literally molding, the strawberries were dried out, the bananas were ready to turn brown, and I could go on.  I was able to find a few things and moved onto the "healthy" section.  I needed to get Girl her yogurt.  Well, ALL of the yogurt was expired.  WHAT THE HE*L????  I was starting to get SUPER annoyed.  I then went to the dairy section to get some other things, at this point I only had some fruit in the cart.  Well, they didn't have what I wanted.  I got so pissed I turned around put the fruit back and left.  I should have just threw it on a shelf, but I'm too nice for that.  I just brought 2 kids into a grocery store and left with nothing.  That is NOT something a parent wants to do.  It's a lot of work to pack 2 kids into a cart and to get them to behave.

So, we headed home.  I was pulling into the garage and heard a big scccccrape.  Uhhhh-oh.  I looked into my sideview mirror and noticed I had run into the side of the garage with the back part of the Acadia.  Ahhhhhhh CRAP ....

I brought the kids in, read nap time stories, and put them to bed.  I went back outside with a rag in hand. I didn't want to look at the car so I took a peek at the damage I did to the garage.  The weather stripping part was in pieces on the ground and some of the door framing was broken off too.  eeck.  Oh man I REALLY didn't want to look closely at the car.  (I took a sneak peek when I got Girl out)  Okay the time had come, I HAD to look.  I took a deep breath and got mentally prepped for calling the dealership to find out how to use my "freebie fix".   I started by washing the area off.  Then I started scraping the handle off with my fingernail.  WHOA - it was coming off.  Hmmm ... I kept scraping and scraping and scraping all over the car.  Then I went on got my magic eraser.  I got to gently swirling and VOILA my car is perfect again.  OMG, that was sooooo close.  I learned my lesson.  Side note: Jared did this SAME thing at our old house with our old truck - he just broke the mirror (worse than it already was) in the process.  So after the kids woke up we went out again ...

I had to go to the post office!  I was crossing my fingers that they would have a box big enough for me to send back my "rainforest" playmat.  It was ready to fall onto Boy and I wasn't cool with that.  The company sent me a shipping label and said they would pay for a box too.  Well, the post office didn't have one for sale.  Then the guy says, "Hang on".  He comes back about 3 minutes later with a long skinny box used to hold broken down file boxes.  Amazingly it fit!!  Wahoo.  He used the tape I brought and packaged it up for me since I had the kids.  Then he adhered the shipping label and sent it away.  Ahhhh one more chore off my list. Next ....

Lowe's here we come!  I bought new weather strip molding and had them cut it to size.  Then I made a stop at the diaper store and did a quick exchange.  Once home I turned on Tinkerbell for Girl and Boy was asleep again.  I took down the rest of the molding and put up the new piece.  Good as new and it cost less than $10. It took me about 10 minutes to clean the car and 10 minutes to do the molding. GO ME!!!!

Today:
We had a normal start.  Then we had some delicious lunch.  As we were wrapping things up the doorbell rang and I thought, "what did I order now?".  Is that a sign that I have a online shopping problem?  Well, to my surprise it was the baby soother that had to be replaced since the motor was louder than the "soothing water" sounds.  (If you're keeping track that's 3 baby items that I had to get replaced in 1 week.  I have the WORST luck with products, really I do.  I bet every manufacturer out there has me in their system by now)  Now that we've been without the soother for a week, boy doesn't really need it to fall asleep anymore.  I may keep it for him to have something to play with when he gets older though.

After lunch we went outside.  How could we not on such a gorgeous day?  Girl spent most of the time with my watering can.  She would catch the water coming off the roof and pour it on my mum (leftover from last fall).  We were having fun.  I even took a close look at the mum and it has new sprouts!  WHAT?  Amazing, spring is here!  So ... after I swept the garage, she took a walk around the yard, she played with chalk, and she learned to pedal her trike, we went back in.  By this time Boy was sound asleep in the stroller.  I also noticed that the dang woodpeckers have been having fun with our fence.  There are a ton of notches in it and there is almost a full hole in one section.  Damn things.  Just another repair for Jared to make.  I told him he just has to stain it so it doesn't look so bad.  He happily agreed.

I plan to head outside again after Girl wakes up.  I had to promise her that we would to avoid the impending nuclear meltdown that was about to happen when I told her we had to go in for naps.  We were already a half hour past time ...

OHHHH - Girl has gone 3 nights in a row waking up dry!!  After a week we're going to switch to underpants.  This is so exciting to me.  Boy is up to 2Tbls of not too liquidy oatmeal at night too.  He is going 5-6 hours before he wakes for a snack then sleeps another 5-6 hours.  Ahhhh.

Well, this little break has ended, Boy is awake and chatting away to the dogs.  Write more another day.