Oh what a night

So... 3 baths, 4 outfits, 3 sets of bedding (one including mine), multiple times of scrubbing/ cleaning and disenfecting/ and a night of ups and downs and I think little Greenlee is finally done throwing up.

*Warning this might be gross* I've never seen someone throw up 8 hours after eating and have all the food be completely in tact. It was disgusting, and as a result, Mommy, Mommy's bed, and even my laptop were covered in scrambled eggs. Bleck. **

She woke up happy and chipper though so hopefully it's all over.

Add to it that my 16 year old had an emotional meltdown yesterday leaving me feeling completely helpless... sigh

I prayed a lot yesterday. First with Kirstan. (Hadn't realized how long it had been since she and I had just sat on my bed and prayed out loud) I think it helped though, maybe, a little. she blogged about it and I'm hoping it did some good. She's kind of at that place where she doesn't understand why God is letting things happen to her,..all I can do is pray for her and with her and hope she sees the beauty in the breaking.

Yesterday was most definately a full time Mommy day. Lots of coddling, holding, rocking, brushing hair out of teary faces, babying and assurances. I don't mind, I'm Mommy, that's what I do,... I love that I can be there for them.

But I will say I'm ready for my turn.

Oh crap! LOL there's no one to do that. Guess I'll have to settle for a hug and kiss from one of my babies and a starbucks.

Keep us in your prayers for later today. It's going to be a long one.

The things moms do,...I crack myself up

Stinker 1 aka "Alex the Room Raider" most recently dubbed "The mouse in my House", has been on a raiding spree as of late. He's managed to steal all the girls Halloween Candy, the candy a friend gave the kids, and eat the leftover chocolate dipper things from Pizza Hut. He does this all while we are sleeping in the wee hours of the morning.

We had a LOT of Halloween candy left that we gave out to the trick or treaters, and I've saved it to give the kids as treats. Well knowing that he is un-stoppable in his quest for junk food I hid it in bowls in a high cabinet knowing he couldn't see it there and would never check. However, yesterday he saw me getting it down, despite my bets efforts to thwart his cunning.

Knowing that he would sneak out on an adventure last night I moved it, set a trap with things that would fall to the counter and make a loud clatter when he tried to pull the bowl down, and wrote him a letter.

Taped to the side of the bowl the note read. Mommy's smarter than you. Moved the candy. it's not in the kitchen. So take your happy butt to bed.

This morning I woke up and checked the trap. it was still in tact but the bowl was moved. Then as I looked around I saw some crumbs of something lying on the floor. Oatmeal? Sure enough it was the crumbs from oatmeal- the kind that comes in a little package and you put int he microwave. So i called him in before school and made him clean it up, then told me to bring whatever else he had. Ofcourse he tried to look at me with his blue eyes that NEVER look innocent and tell me there was nothing else.

Then I asked himif he liked the note. HA, he scrunched his nose and shook his head. "I'm always a step ahead Alex. Don't forget that. I'm 'Mom' ."

He cleaned the mess and went to school and I went on an adventure in his room. That was some wild and crazy fun. oatmeal crumbs in his bed along with chocolate chips, and some powder that I wasn't quite sure of.

Upon further investigation I discovered - shoved in the heater vent in his room no less- an open package of baking mix for blueberry muffins, some candy wrappers, an empty bag of chocolate chips, an empty pudding cup, and sucker sticks. Geesh.

He's like a mouse that you can't catch. And Umm I was probably wrong, lol I misjudged his stealth skill and the lengths he will go to to get some sugar. I mean Blueberry muffin mix? It's just powder and dehydrated blueberries! *CRUNCH* *CRUNCH* *BLECK*

So maybe I'm not always one step ahead LOL But if the mouse is too big for the trap you just set a bigge rbetter one next time, right?

Oh, I have a plan!!!!!!!