Everything (Raquel)
I should preface this by saying it hasn’t been a bad day. But why does everything that happens have to packed into fifteen minutes where I need to do everything at once? Theresa left to go to the library so we have some books and DVDs for the children while they’re quarantined. She’ll be gone for about an hour. That’s fine, I’ll just finish my blog post, cook some rice for lunch, and unload the dishwasher. The blog post takes a little longer than I think it will so I need to put the rice on first. Only by the time I get to the kitchen I forget the proper order. It’s noon before I realize that I need to put the rice on now and there are no clean pots. As I’m scrubbing out a pot Toby comes to running into the kitchen to inform me that Moriah coughed so hard she threw up. So now I’m prioritizing lunch and vomit. Toss in for good measure a sick child who probably needs some comforting which I’m not really good at, and another child who turns nearly every simple reminder into a more complicated discussion of having a respectful attitude. Now someone tell me I need to go read the last two sentences of my last post again…