While driving down the road this morning, I had this epiphany, that my blog is not just about all things "Lex", but rather "a day in the life" of ...ME. I was working on writing this wonderful blog about my youngest son with lightly sprinkled antidotes of my other children when I realized that although yes, I do wish to finish my blog about the wonderful experience of my most recent birth of one of my children, I also want to capture all of my children equally, and I want to blog about my life, my mundane, boring, always on the go, LIFE. This is it, me and my life, in a blog. Some will find it humorous, and will laugh at the spots where I laugh, others will find it sad and cry with me when I feel like all is lost and I just want to give up, I just hope that people read this. If not, one day I will print it out and maybe some long lost relative 10 years down the line will find my life interesting, maybe.
My story of today begins with the short, fat and furry, aka...LuggNutt.
I went back to work at CAPCA full time on Feb 7, Lex's two month birthday. It was sad. It didn't even take me being there a full week to realize that my full time working arrangements weren't going to work. I couldn't make it into work on time since I had to wait to get the kids off on the bus before dropping Lex off. I am still breastfeeding, so I had to take time out of my day for pumping which my boss (being a man) did not understand having to do this more than once a day. Plus, with Lex at a sitters, I had to take off promptly at 5 to pick him up. There were also the other catastrophes, such as forgetting pieces of my breast pump, or the sitter needing to do something which meant I had to pick him up early. I soon told CAPCA I would be leaving. That was when I was offered something different, the opportunity to work part time, so starting this week, I work 3 days a week for 5 hours a day. I am off on Tuesday's and Friday's meaning I had this morning off.
The day started much the way it would if I were headed into work. Lex slept from 11:30 last night until 5:15 this morning. I was so sleepy, I couldn't wake myself, so I gave him the pacifier, and laid back down. The alarm started going off at 6 and by 6:30 I was up and feeding Lex (who was still sleeping from his earlier 5:15 wake up call). After the feeding, I got dressed and pumped. Ben had the boys up and they were eating, getting dressed and making their lunches for school. Aaron was nice enough to feed LuggNutt. Ben took Luggy out for his walk while I changed and dressed Lex. Instead of walking Luggy back inside, Ben loaded short fat and furry up in the back of the suburban so I could take him into the vet for a grooming. (HE STINKS!!) *Grooming might sound like a frivolous gesture, but for a 55lb bulldog, it is a sanity saver. Anytime we bathe him, we get bathed, and if we bathe him in the tub, he clogs it and it hasn't been quite warm enough to chase him around the yard with a hose.*
Ben leaves for work, and I work on getting the boys out the front door as I am walking out with Lex in his carrier so we can get Luggy dropped off. Everyone is now gone from the house, Lex, Luggy and I are loaded in the suburban and heading out. Then, it starts to rain. I have not thought this scenario out completely. All I was thinking of when I booked the appointment was having to drop Luggy off, I forgot about the part where I have to do this with a 3 month old, and now in the rain. Oh the adventures of mommy hood.
We make it to the vets office and I decide it will be easier to handle Lugg if I just carry Lex instead of the whole carrier. I didn't take into account how I will get the lease on the furry monster while holding the squishy mommy monster...hummm??? I get it taken care of and Luggy jumps down out of the back, and then takes off with Lex and me tow, having the need to go mark his territory.
We made it inside and were able to get Lugg dropped off. The poor girl who came running over to help a mom with a tiny baby and huge bulldog was a little timid and I feel she bit off more than she could chew. Lugg was left in good hands.
Now for the rest of my day, I have to write a 2 page paper and put together a bibliography for paper due in 2 weeks. I also need to do some laundry and basic housework. I have to prep for a Thirty-One show I am doing this weekend. Then sometime around noon I have to head out the door to go pick up pictures, after which I want to stop by the consignment sale, then to go pick up Lugg,(once again trying to figure out how to juggle the dog and the baby) hopefully all in time to make it back home by 4. Whew...I am getting tired just thinking about it. Busy day, but such is my life. Welcome to adventures in Mommy Hood!!
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