My (really long) day without the internet

It started out fine. The kids are on fall break this week so I was able to go straight to bed when I got off work.

I woke up around 10:30 and told them to get breakfast (something I'm really going to miss when the new baby comes lol) Then I made a list of lots of things to accomplish and got started.

I cleaned the kitchen, put away lots of clothes, washed two more loads, had Sage and Jake wipe down the tables...etc.

At about 11:30 (kind of backtracking here) the cable and internet went out. My first thought was did I pay the bill but about an hour after it happened the truck came and the people were working on it. It was weird because the cable came back and the phone came back which runs through the internet...but no net. No email, no wasting time browsing through things...it wasn't happening.

I was glad to have the phone back because I was supposed to call my mom at a certain time. Well, we were chatting about whatever when Mycah asked me for a drink and I told her to get one. All of the sudden I hear a huge splash and she has dumped almost the whole huge container of Gatorade on our (gas) stove and floor.

I understand that spills happen but I sent her out of the kitchen because she was so flustered then in a break in the conversation with my mom I called her in and gave her a towel to clean it up with. It was only two or three minutes later and most of the drink had pooled where the carpet meets the tile. I told her to put the towel down and step on it and wipe it back and forth. She has spilled enough to know what I was talking about, its the same instructions every time. Instead, she threw the towel into the middle of the kitchen floor.

Okay, now I'm annoyed because she didn't listen. I made her pick it up and start to clean it, but she was just acting like she had no idea so I sent her back to her room and had to finish it myself.

During this whole time Jake was on the porch playing. He likes to wipe stuff off and say he's cleaning so I sprayed a rubbermaid that we keep out there (more on that later) with windex and gave him a paper towel. While talking to my mom I noticed him coming inside and spraying more windex and I didn't think too much about it, even though it was a waste to continue to soak a wet paper towel... So, after I cleaned the gatorade, I noticed that the windex was gone from the counter where it was so I went to check on Jake and he had spilled the ENTIRE bottle onto the top of that rubbermaid. I was so mad! Why is it that I cannot even talk on the phone without some mess being made???? So I sent all three of them to their room without the tv on. And I shut the door and told them not to make a sound.

I felt bad for doing it to Sage because she was out here with me working on a paper in one of her school books, but I know her and as soon as her brother and sister are out of the way, she becomes really clingy and I was too frustrated to deal with that.

So I left them in there for 30 minutes with no tv, then I made the two who were in trouble stay there and let Sage out since she hadn't made any messes.

I also poured the windex with vinegar onto the porch floor hoping it would drain but no such luck. So now our porch smells like vinegar. Too bad it doesn't rain here.

So, concerning the rubbermaids... we have four that stay on the porch tucked in this little corner. I thought I had them mapped out:one of Christmas, two of girl clothes, one of boy clothes.

I was very wrong.

I had one of Christmas, that one was on top, then I had one and a half of boy clothes, which, I didn't know I kept that many, then I just had a few girl clothes in the bottom of one of those.

And the fourth. I'm still wrapping my head around this one. All last winter, I was tearing the house apart looking for some winter clothes that I knew my girls had somewhere. The blue hooded sweater, the indian print very warm looking jacket my niece gave Mycah... but to no avail. Well, I open the fourth rubbermaid to find, not newborn girl clothes, but ALL of those winter clothes!!! And most in there still had the tags on them. I could not believe it! Is it possible that I never looked in the rubbermaids??? I guess not, but...I don't know...it seems like it would be a very obvious place.

The good news is that all the clothes will still fit them, even though most might be too small for Mycah she will still get some things out of there. And the big thick jacket that she was so excited about will keep her tiny body very warm this winter. :) And between all of those clothes and the seven vacuum bags of winter clothes we don't have to buy them anything except maybe during the after season sales for next year.