This week

Everyone likes a good laugh so I thought I’d share a few glimpses into life from the past week. I've been taking a break from work this week to stay home with the kids while my parents went out of town. I love these weeks as much for the change in routine as for the incredible appreciation it gives me for all of the stay-at-home mothers I know. I’m not sure I could do this on a regular basis. Not without Xanax, lots and lots of Xanax.

This was Monday morning. Things are good. The kids are a little confused about why I'm home, but things are good. On Monday night our refrigerator started emitting this horrible high-pitched squeal. MAYBE two minutes later I’m in full-blown panic mode, switching quickly between mentally calculating if we have enough readily-available cash to call a repairman and praying that God would PLEASE keep the fridge alive until we could get our tax refund. Luckily Robert is a bit calmer in a crisis and was able to find the problem. Apparently when the batteries die in one of these lovely things … it’ll make your eardrums cry.

  

    

            There was a thirty second window yesterday where I was pretty sure Abigail had flushed my phone. I found her in the bathroom, standing over the toilet, waving and calling “bye-bye phone!” Yes, she flushed a phone – a pink one – that thankfully floats.

  Got a call from the bank this morning telling me our checking account had been hacked – roughly three to four minutes into the conversation we both realized that he was NOT TALKING TO THE RIGHT PERSON! You think that’d be something they’d triple check. I don't have a cute picture forthis one - just a few hundred new gray hairs.

Overall, it’s been an interesting week. I love my children more than I can ever describe – and maybe if I did this every week I’d find that it gets easier. Or I’d duct tape the toilet shut, probably that one.