Here is how my Mother's day went. It will sound funny to someone who did not experience it first hand, but I wasn't laughing this morning....
First off, our 2 month old slept for 6 hours! I thought, "Wow, this is going to be a pretty great day." When she woke up at 3am I fed her and put her back to bed assuming she would sleep another 3 hours or so. An hour later she was awake again. I changed her poopy diaper while she cried then....it began....the comedy of errors. She peed on the new diaper that she was sitting on while I was throwing away the dirty diaper. It didn't all make it onto the diaper so at 5am I was changing a soaked infants clothes while she screams...now she is too worked up to fall back to sleep.
(Side note: she got vaccinations a couple days ago and one was for the rotavirus...they said to be very good about washing hands after changing dirty diapers for the next two weeks because the live virus can be in the poop!)
Ok, so to calm her enough to sleep again I nurse her once more. All I wanted was to sleep until my alarm went off at 6:30 am (we have 9 am church) Soon after I laid back down our almost 5 year old opens my bedroom door to inform me he has wet the bed....welcome to Motherhood! I had him change his clothes and go back to sleep on the floor, vowing to wash his sheets in the "morning." By this time it is 6:15 am and baby is crying again. I get up to check on her and she spits up on her sheets...more bedding to wash.
Well, so much for waking to the alarm. Did I mention that hubby is on call today so he is already at work? Baby is very fussy and nothing I do is working to calm her....so I make sure she is safe etc. and turn on the baby monitor full volume so I can listen to her cry while I take the worlds fastest shower. While in the shower, the alarm I neglected to turn off comes on blaring the song "Dirty laundry", as if I needed a reminder that there is pee an puke on my kids sheets!....I couldn't make this stuff up.
I get sort of half dressed and then I get baby all dressed for church (she looked super cute) I now make my first attempt to wake up the "big kids". They assure me they are awake and I make sure they are sitting up so they don't fall back to sleep. As I am blowing dry my hair I am simultaniously putting a binky back into baby's mouth about 25 times (so she can go back to sleep) and re-awaking my two oldest who have decided to complicate the morning by falling back to sleep about 7 times. Multi-tasking is over rated.
I don't have time to use the curling iron I turned on for myself earlier so hair goes back in a pony. I have a horrible time trying to find something flattering to wear that I don't look still pregnant in. Not feeling the hoped for relaxation on Mother's day. Luckily the big kids finish breakfast without incident.
8 am I have to wake the sleepy baby to feed her one more time before church so she doesn't need to eat in the middle of the meeting where I am the one who has to lead the music.....I don't feel like breast feeding in front of hundreds of people...not today :0). By 8:30 am we are out the door..amazing, we are on time. When we get to church I get everyone settled and then I go up to put the Hymn numbers on the board for the congregation to see. When I get back to our seats baby is fussing. I pick her up to calm her and notice, a split second before cuddling her against me, she has had a BLOW OUT poopy diaper. For you who are not familiar with these parenting terms...that means the diaper did not contain the mess....hence you see me hurrying out of the chapel with our infant held at arms length.
I now have to change her out of the cute little church outfit into her standby change of clothes from the diaper bag. She is cold and screaming....I am rushing to finish before the meeting officially begins (because I have to lead the opening song)....and there is the matter of the viral poop...must keep it away from everything and wash thoroughly. We made it back to the chapel just in time.
Let's hope the other half of this Mother's day is a little less "eventful."
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LOL! Oh Natalie! I love it! But only because I was right there with you this morning! Because Tyler has a Stake calling I never get him at church with me so I'm used to doing the 9am thing solo, but Mother's Day is the one day that the Stake takes off so husbands can be home and give their wives the day off (SOO nice!). It's the one Sunday that I know I'll get to actually have him sitting next to me in church, I'll get to hold his hand and hear him singing the hymns with me and he'll be home in the mornings to help me get all the kids ready. So you can imagine how much I look forward to Mother's Day. Not to mention that I usually get breakfast in bed, flowers, etc. So I'm sure you can imagine my extreme disappointment when Tyler got called into work at the last minute early this morning. I was so bummed! Of all the Sundays he could be called in it had to be THIS day. This ONE day that I was supposed to get him with me at church. Of course, it was all downhill from there. Blowouts, missing shoes, spit-up on the one and only church outfit I have for Casten, boys not cooperating, me not fitting into anything (will I ever get my pre-prego body back?!!!) and then finally giving up, sitting down in the shower and just having a good long cry. Needless to say we did NOT make it to our 9:00 sacrament meeting (extra major bonus points to you for not only getting there but getting there EARLY) but we did at least make it for Primary (though admittedly only because it was my week to conduct).
I am just SO GRATEFUL that I'm not a single parent and if there are any single Moms or Dads out there that read your blog, I'm giving them all a big virtual high five because seriously, I don't know how they do it. There is no doubt in my mind that "God created families to help us become what he wants us to be..." That's from one of my favorite primary songs and it's so true. Heavenly Father knew exactly what He was doing when he formed the family unit and I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and 3 beautiful, healthy little boys!
Ahhhhh, sounds so familiar! (Luckily not for me today, though!) Hope the rest of your day was a little less stressful! You are a good mama! Happy Mother's Day! ~Em
Oh Heidi! That majorly stinks! I'm glad to know I am not the only one struggling, but I wish you had a better day!
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