What a day...

Warning- my grammar is terrible at 11:00 at night, but I feel my day is worth documenting! It's now 10:45 and I am sitting down literally for the first time today other than the time I have taken to feed a baby. I cannot believe how often I think to myself, "Is this how superman feels?" It has been cold and we spent the whole day inside the house. I was pretty proud of myself for how busy I was keeping the kids. We really did have a fun day, for an inside day. We painted, danced, did music and rhythm sticks time, read, etc. I had decided that the only thing that I really needed to accomplish was to go grocery shopping. We had an appointment this morning, ate lunch and then Corom took a good nap. By the time he woke up it was about 3:30. Off to the grocery store we go... It took about 15 minutes to bundle all of the kids up. This winter thing is so much harder than the kids being able to just go outside in a pair of flip flops. I got one child dressed. "GO stand by the door," I say. I get the other child's shoes on. "GO stand by the door... I just have to buckle the baby in the carrier. Then, Elijah decided he was hungry. So, I unbundled him and fed him. In the mean time the jackets come off and the kids are off and playing again. Going to the grocery store- Take 2. (20 minutes later) I then re-shoed the kids and put jackets back on. Being on the 3rd floor, it takes a lot of patience and time to make it to ground level. I either carry both babies down or take the long road of holding Corom's hand while he climbs down himself. (The latter is much better for development, but at times really inconvenient) I decided that because the kids were already with me and we had made it this far that we would do a quick laundry room trip to change the loads. Fast forward a few minutes, Noelle and Corom decided to play tug-of-war with a tricycle in the laundry room. Corom fell head first and the tooth went through the lip. Ouch! Good bye grocery trip. So, we go upstairs and unbundle, ice the lip and by then it was time to make dinner. The kids were so wound up by this point that Noelle put a toy in the middle of the living room and they ran around in a circle about a hundred times to preschool music. A few hours later dinner had been served and dishes were done. Sleeping Elijah and I snuck away after Dan and the kids fell asleep and I just finished putting the groceries away. So, you are probably asking yourselves "Why are you telling this story?" It is really just to answer the questions that I hear so often, "I try to call you during the day...Why didn't you pick of the phone?" or "How is it being a mother of 3 kids?" At the end of most days, I think to myself, "Wow! what a day!"