Oh, What a Day

Okay, so I feel the need to just kind of vent and complain a bit. Be warned....

Today was my son's class Luau at pre-school. I knew going into it that it would be an exhausting day. 28 3/4 year olds running around?! Yeah, I was going to go a little mad. I'm not really sure how it happened, but I was "in charge" of crafts (which I delegated to another mom - thanks, Jody!), face painting, toe nail painting and tatoos (the toes and tats I also delegated - thanks Kari and Margo!), AND ordering the pizza. WTF?! Anyway, between the delegations and the constant clock watching (so I ordered the pizza on time), all went well. But I was tired by the end of the party (12:30).

Dragged my young son home and put him in bed for a nap, then crawled into mine as well. I think I read 1, maybe 2, pages of my book before I fell asleep. I was awakened 10 minutes later by the phone. "Hello, this is the nurse at BBS, your daughter fell off the monkey bars and is here with me. Her forearm by the wrist is swollen and she's very much favoring it." OMG! Are you kidding me?! I told the nurse that I had just put my son down for a nap after a long morning and that if she's wasn't in terrible pain, I would just wait until the end of school to pick her up. The nurse said okay, but didn't sound too thrilled about that.

Called my DH and told him what went down at school. He, too, was surprised that I was leaving her at school. And he, wisely, said, "if they thought it was important enough to call you about it, you probably ought to go pick her up" *sign*, when he's right, he's right. Damn, I hate it when he's right!

Turned out that DS wasn't sleeping anyway, so we hauled off the get DD from school. She was curled up in the nurses office, looking almost asleep and VERY pathetic. She just wanted to go home. SO SAD!! Before we left the school, I called our doctor and got an appointment for 3:40. So, we went home to relax a bit before that.

The doctor palpatated her arm and was pretty sure it was fractured and sent us to the local facility that does x-rays (the doctor's office doesn't). We arrived there at 4:30. By 5:00 it was confirmed that her arm had a "buckle" fracture and the doctor's office recommended that we make an appointment with OIP (an orthopedict). Don't you know, they close at 5pm. Arg. So, I will call them tomorrow morning.

Meanwhile, it's a little after 5pm and I have not done anything about dinner. I have been up since 6am, with much energy outputted and not much nap time to recharge. My allergies have been flaring up the past two days and most of the time I cannot breath, what with my nose either being stuffed or so full of snot! My eyes are tired and my body aches.

My dear friend, who is having a birthday party for her son tomorrow, who has already rescheduled it once because we couldn't attend, called about something regarding the party tomorrow and I told her what was going on. I think we'll still make it.

DH called and asked what was for dinner (in a joking way, cause he knew how the day had progressed) and we quickly agreed upon dinner at the local diner. :-) Great minds think alike.

After dinner, we all got into our jammies and had a pajama party. And now the children are in bed. I plan to take some Nyquil soon and be in my bed shortly as well.

So, that's the skinny on my "Oye, what a day" day. Sorry to be all "my life is so much worse than yours", but I just needed to get it all out there.