Monday Mid-Morning...

*Hysterical Laughter*

Well, I forgot to do the Valentines box this weekend... so guess what got to do this morning before leaving the house??? I didn't have to full-on decorate it but I did have to wrap it in white. I did a shoe box, so I had to wrap the box and lid separately. I could not wrap a Christmas present to save my life, so this moment was full of Awesome for me. Then I decided to be super creative and make the Valentine slot into a heart. Cute, until I had to put the paper on and get it curved around the edges of the heart... it looked terrible and was a complete Parenting Fail on my part.

I was able to get Gage ready and out the door with only four melt downs (1. shampoo hair 2. clean ears 3. clip nails 4. brush teeth) and two falls (1. in entry 2. fell out of van while loading up). Bo and Cote were set and ready without too much of a hitch and I even remembered the diaper bag today!!!!

So after loading everyone up I head over to pick up my brother. He is 17 and on Mondays he rides with me to help me get Gage to his classroom. I cannot leave Bo and Cote in the van to bring him in so this is a huge help for me. My folks are a few miles out of my way on the back roads but it is so worth it in my opinion. I pull up to their house and it is completely dark!!!! No vehicles!!! No brother!!!! I call my mom from their kitchen phone and she informs me he drove to school! Ummm.... say what???? BLAST!

DISCLAIMER- I, Rachel, have no room for any sort of drastic errors on Mondays. Mondays are the bane of my existence and are extremely hectic.

So, hysterical and quite frankly bawling (lol), I call Melissa. At this point I would ask her to consider moving in with me and be my personal assistant instead of just my PCA, but I know that would be asking just a little too much. I explain to her that I was thrown under the bus, and ask her if she will leave her son with her hubby and go to the school with me. She rationally suggests I drop the Little's off on my way past her house on my way to the school. Intelligence Fail.

So I get to her place about 40 minutes later. We unload children and I grab the diaper bag (that I for the first time remembered) and proceed to tell her I am stopping at the gas station to grab yogurts and banana's for the kids and energy drinks for us mature adults.

I get Gage to the school just in time and help him haul all his gear to his classroom. He is walking behind me fussing about his 50 pound backpack and it dawns on me to perhaps let him carry the 20 ounce empty Valentine box instead. Parenting Fail.

I get him to his room and confirm with one of his teachers for the 20th time that the Valentines Party is actually next week. I swear, every brain cell I own must be at some sort of permanent party.

I exit the school with that one scrap of dignity I have left and head over to the gas station. I drive through town fantisizing about my awesome Diet Rockstar I am going to drink the dickens out of. I pull up and reach for my wallet... in time to see I forgot it in the diaper bag... that I remembered for once... and dropped of at Melissa's. Memory Fail.

I arrive back at Melissa's and she has made CoCo Wheats for the kids, and is already feeding Bo. So far it is going a lot better that the Chocolate Malt-O-Meal! She is mixing it with pudding to get him to eat it but its working!!!!! I grab Cote and we get to work. She is eating it way better as well!!! The whole time my brain is spinning with things I have to do today, and I dont notice that Cote and I are officially covered in CoCo Wheat Devil Beads!!!! Blast Again! We finish up, clean up and I do diapers and get Bo dressed while Mel is getting to finally take that beloved Monday morning shower.

So as we speak I am at Melissa's. I am waiting for the Early Childhood Special Education Teacher, the Vision Specialist and the Speech Pathologist to arrive. I wonder what sort of havoc can incur in the next couple of hours.