Monday my parents recognized that my life was slowly spiraling out of control. Every time I took a breath in and out around them and actually slowed down enough to look either of them in the eyes when they asked me how I was doing I felt myself on the brink of tears.
I bought a dry erase board at the beginning of February because we were entering birthday season, a real estate surge (thank goodness) and all kinds of spring activities and obligations. The last think I wrote on it was a reminder and to do list for the week of February 6. It is still sitting in a prominent place on my kitchen counter but I have not taken the time to erase it or update it since then. That was the week life got really busy and it hasn't slowed down since. I think until Monday, that was the last time my house had had a thorough cleaning.
Monday morning I had planned to go to a public hearing about Charter Schools in support of the charter renewal for my daughter's school. I was to have T to Mom and Dad by about 8:15 am so I could get downtown and find a place to park and get into the hearing facility. At 8:00 I looked at the clock and called Dad to tell him that I just couldn't go. There was just no way to have myself and Tucker up and ready in time and that I just couldn't stand the thought of walking away from all of my mess again. For another day. I knew I would never get back in time to clean without the kids and I just couldn't bring myself to leave it all undone, again.
About 30 minutes later Dad called me back. He offered to come and clean my house, mop, vacuum, and even do my laundry. I immediately started crying and had to call him back to get out my "YES PLEASE THANK YOU!!"
Dad cleaned away, mom came too and we went to work in M's room. We moved all of her furniture, organized her clothes, bows, and everything else, and gave her a big girl room to come home to. She LOVES it. We watched The Last Unicorn Monday night and after it was over she said- is it time to go to my beautiful princess big girl room now and go to bed? She has told me so many times over the last 2 days how much she loves her room. Monday night she crawled into bed after Tyler and I had kissed her and tucked her in. She lifted up her hand to her face like a phone and pretended to dial her best friend Sydnie. She made the dialing noises- boop boop beep boop boop beep boop and said, "Hello? Sydnie? You won;t believe my room! I have a big girl room now! And a hand phone! Do you wanna come spend the night and see it? Not tonight? Okay! We'll do it another night! Bye Bye!" And she hing up her hand phone. Tyler and I DIED laughing. She is so funny when we give her a chance to be.
In other news, I caught some flack for this but I chose to teach M and T the proper names for their private body parts. I also encourage Tyler to take Tucker to pee pee with him so that Tucker understands how things work. Also pay back for Tyler because I know I have not used the potty by myself for 6 years. Anyway, the other day Tucker was really watching Tyler go pee pee and said, "Wow Dada, cool butt." Tyler asked him what he was talking about and Tucker corrected himself and said, "Oh! I mean, wow Dada, cool penis!" Tyler is very proud that he has a cool penis. Tucker said so.
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