What?

Yes, it's Monday, the day everything was to begin. Kids went off to school, J, Squiggly, and I came home I put Squiggly in her excersaucer and jumped on the treadmill. Now I said I was going to start exercising which I did, I started over the weekend.
As soon as I got into my running mode I can see Squiggly starting to get fussy. I've only done 2 laps. Now I remember why I didn't like to run when my kids were that little. They are so unpredictable, you think they're going to be okay, they've been fed, diaper changed, and are happy when you put them with their toys until............................you move away.
Well, there goes that, I get off, turn off the treadmill, close the window, and close the door behind me. Once I take her out she's just fine, figures. I can't go off and clean up the kitchen or pick up the front room especially now that Squiggly just wants to explore, so I sit with her, watch her play, and just pick up whatever I can in the room that we're in.
Finally I get her down for a nap but of course now that she's sleeping I don't want to make noise that might wake her up and you know there's nothing worse than a baby waking up when they aren't ready to.
Squiggly sleeps long enough for me to at least get lunch for both J and I, we ate and then I cleaned up a little quietly until she woke up.
Happy, happy, Squiggly is what she was, fed her lunch, let her play and off we go to pick up the kids from school. We do our usual, meet up with a friend who usually walks the same way we do to our cars. Jr. and J run off way in front of us to get to the car first and as usual Jr. gets to the car first, J screams his head off because he wants to be first and Jr. just looks towards me smiling. Same story different school day even though I've told him over and over again "don't make him scream, let him get their first once in a while".
Well, I can still hear J screaming and now I see Jr. jumping up and down on something. I get over there and Jr. tells me "Mom, J was stepping right there and a bunch of red ants started crawling up his legs and biting him so I knocked them off".
Um, didn't we just have a lesson about the ants the other day? You would think J would've remembered the sting he felt when they bit him the first time...Oh, and now that I look I see what Jr. was doing, he was jumping up and down on the ants which only bothered them even more so now I can't open the car door to put Squiggly in because then the ants would crawl on me!!
I now tell Jr. and J they are no longer allowed to run off to the car because of all the drama it causes every day they do it. We come home Mom Jr. gets right on her homework because she goes back to full dance mode this week and today starts it off.
She does part of her homework and figures she'll have time to finish the rest when she gets home. I put her hair in a bun for ballet. Daddy gets home and jumps on the treadmill so Squiggly and I take Mom Jr. to dance. We pull up and I tell her "I'll walk you in" "You don't have to Mom besides Squiggly fell asleep" "Well, that's okay I can just carry her in and what about your skirt, who's going to help you tie it in the back?" "You can just help me right here" "alright".
I help Mom Jr. with her skirt and she goes in the door, back in my car, I drive off to get home before Squigglys Mom gets there.
After Squiggly leaves I clean up the kitchen and decide to leave to go watch the last half of Mom Jr.'s ballet class. I get there and she is just walking out the door with a friend and her Mom. "What? you're already done?" her eyes start getting watery as she's trying to laugh instead of cry. Her friends Mom said there was no dance. "what?" "why didn't you call me?" "I don't know, there was no phone" "you could've went next door and asked to borrow theres". Ugh, this girl sat there for an hour and a half instead of just going next door and asking for a phone, it wasn't like she had to walk outside these two places are inside the same area just down the hall from each other. I felt so bad for her, silly girl, I know she wanted to cry but because her friend was there she didn't.
I know this would've been one reason she would've said she needs a cell phone. Some kids in her grade have cell phones, I'm sorry first of all I don't need an extra bill, second of all, I personally think there is no reason for them to have one. What's the reason to have one when you're in elementary school, you don't go off anywhere by yourself, who are you going to call? and when, in between math and reading or how about recess? Even after school, all your friends are there with you and if your parents aren't picking you up, they're working.........I don't know, I don't get it, even as busy as my daughter is, yes, it would've been nice if she would've had one for this one time but on the other hand she should've known when dance really started (or I should've).
Well, another lesson learned, make sure we know our dates!!!!

Just a Mom glad to know we have one more dance free week!!!!