Woah, what a day!!

So today was just one of those days, it revolved back and forth from, crazy busy, to fun, to hectic to crazy busy, to we are all going to go insane soon. It all started out with me buckling down on my family to get things done around the house. Everyone needed to chip in and help put away laundry (5 baskets to be exact). So I start folding and Tom usually puts clothes on hangers and he will hang them up, and I give caitlin her and christians clothes to put away. Yes I do know shes only 3.5 but we've taught her to do many chores around the house. In our house, we all help out, that means picking up your own things and helping to put your own laundry away, and where the dirty clothes go after you take them off. I'm still teaching that to my husband, but my daughter seems to be getting it pretty well. Anyway, so as I'm folding, my children and my husband are watching Dilbert. CAN U BELIEVE IT!?!? I'm slaving away (ok maybe not slaving, but still working) and they are watching Dilbert. I was so annoyed I started to yell at everyone! TURN OFF THAT TV NOW! I mean for crying out loud we have TIVO, what more can you ask. GEESH! Anyway, so I get most the clothes folded, I even start to teach caitlin how to fold her own clothes. I still have one basket to fold, its rather large, but the vast majority of it was taken care of. Then outside we go to do some yard work. The kids play in their newly finished play area while Tom and I are working on the dog run, putting down some weed guard and gravel, emptied the garbage containers outside, and weed whacked. I planted some flowers next to the shed, first I had to dig up the ground and get rid of the top layer of grass, that was a job and a half. Caitlin of course got into some trouble several times for 1. throwing a plastic gardening shovel at her brother 2. pushing her brother over into a pile of rocks 3. stealing his toys away. She just doesn't understand what shes up for when he gets bigger. He already hits her back AND he bit her on the shoulder the other day. I had to chuckle to myself because she is gonna be in for a big surprise, he's not going to take her crap much longer. So after that was done, we decided to head off to the Great Mall to visit a friend who works at Johnny Rockets and then do a little shopping. Caitlin was a handful the whole time. She was so excited she had to touch everything and kept running away from us. We had to keep reminding ourselves she's only three. But it still was fairly stressful. We stopped off at Burlington Coat Factory's Baby Depot and picked up some pajamas for Goo. We haven't been able to find him anything anywhere. Not at Target or at Mervyns. Do people not make 18 month clothes anymore or what?? We found a vast array of jammies for him in 18 months. WOOOHOOO. Tom thinks its really beginning to become our favorite store. We can leave there spending 200$ and clothe our children for the entire season, underwear and all. So after spending A LOT of time at the mall, it was time to head home. The kids were exhausted and getting more cranky by the second. We got home Goo napped for a bit and caitlin slept a little in the car. I head off to Home Depot (its way to close) and grab some groundcover, some climbing lavendar, an orange tree, and a lavendar bush. (yes I'm planning to plant it all) I'm so excited. I didn't get back in time to do anything with it, we had to get the kids dressed and out the door to meet Diane at 6 for dinner at Sweet Tomatoes. We actually met up with some friends of ours from church. Jon, Kaye and their kids. Jon's also addicted to blogging, many more posts than me, but hey I'm trying to catch up. We get there, make it through the line after having to chase caitlin around the bar and finally strapping her into one of those rolley chairs, begging Jon to take one more child, he refuses fighting us off like the plague, we get to the cashier and Tom turns to me and says " Do you have your purse, I dont have my wallet" ok if anyone has ever been at the cash register and your S.O. turns to you and asks you that question, you know how I was feeling at that very moment. My heart sank to the pit of my stomach. All I could say was "you what??" . He repeated himself and I was getting annoyed; remind you I just chased caitlin around the food bar so my patience was a lil thin. So I went the car to check to see if my purse was there, but it was not, I had forgotten to take it out of Tom's car earlier from when I ran to Home Depot. Now I'm paniced and starting to get mad. Yea Yea I know it didn't do me any good to get mad. I just didn't know what to do. Plus Tom always forgets his wallet, but normally I have my purse. So I walk in and tell Tom my purse is just not in the car. Luckily, Super Jon comes to the rescue. Flying in with his Visa Gold Card! He saves the day. He buys us dinner and we promise to pay him back tomorrow at church and bring him and his wife coffee from starbucks. I mean its the least we can do right? THANK YOU JON AND KAYE!! :) So we eat dinner somewhat peacfully except for Caitlin having an accident in her pants and crying because now she has to ride all the way home in wet jean shorts.

How does our night end you ask? Well Tom promises there will be fuzzy navels in it for me when we get home(get your head out of the gutter, its a yummy alcholic beverage), Diane laughs and offers us 10$ to buy schnapps on the way home, we laugh, telling her its ok. We get home, Tom runs off to frye's and to safeway to get peach schnapps, I get the kids in bed in record time, they crash immediately. But I hear a knock at the door. Who can it be??? Its Diane branishing a very large bottle of peach schnapps. What a sweetie. I think I might drink the whole bottle. :) hmm hungover at church tomorrow. Could work :)