"cinderella, cinderella, night and day it's cinderella"

geez, now i realize why on some days i just give up trying to accomplish anything before half the day is over. 

this morning daniel woke up at 7 wanting to nurse...and kathryn woke up at 8, so i finally kick myself out of bed to make breakfast...but daniel, with his really bad ear infection, only wants to be held, and so putting him down for even a second is like murdering him...(which i figured out is the cause of all of my horribly painful back problems) 

so since it is cold, i figure, lets make oatmeal...get in the kitchen with daniel in one arm, getting the bowls out, only to realize kathryn is going for the oatmeal container, but it somehow slips, and crash, a nice mess to clean up. ok, not bad, it's dry, just sweep it up....so i put daniel down, ugggh screams ringing in my ears, i clean it up while taking a deep breath...

ok, so pick daniel back up, get back to the oatmeal, i get it all preped for the microwave, give daniel a piece of bread, put him down to get the bowls to the microwave, turn it on, turn around, and daniel has crawled over to the highchair where kathryn has just placed her juice (he is just tall enough to reach) and grabs her cup (not sippy cup) and turns it over...all over him. 

so do i give him a bath or just change his clothes wipe him down and fill my own growling tummy...

yeah, skip the bath, struggle with daniel to get his clothes off, wipe him down, battle with him to get clothes back on, and at this point trying to calm kathryn down who is now screaming for more juice...deep breath...."JUICE JUICE JUICE MAMA!!!" aaaaagh, "i just want to finish the oatmeal!!! is that too much to ask!!!" 

ok, so now i get to eat my oatmeal, and only hope the rest of my day doesn't go this way. 

i've still got to do the dishes and the laundry, and clean the kitchen, vacuum the floor (for remaining oatmeal), mop the floor (all the juice will get sticky) and possibly make dinner too?? i feel like cinderella. couldn't possibly be because that is the movie of choice kathryn decided to play 4 times already this morning.  =) ::sigh::

but i would like to say thank you to my wonderful husband who watched the kids and put them to bed so i could run off to foxy's last night and sit in their hot tub to loosen up the muscles and pain in my back. it helped so much, i feel much better, so thank you  johnathan!

getting to be a kid again

so, my in-laws let everyone open gifts yesterday, because that was the only day that everyone was going to be able to get together before christmas... (thanks to retail) and kathryn got a nice 5 pack train set (geotrax) and so, after sorting through everything, i decided to get it out and put it together, after putting together the other new train set at the in-laws house yesterday (trackmaster train set). i just had so much fun doing both, and realized obviously because of the lack of money my mom had, we never got things like this (except legos and barbies) but i have always like the "boy" toys better. hehe. so i got to be a kid again and play with the flippin sweet train sets with kathryn and daniel too. he liked to look at them. so check out all the fun we had!