Tuesday, October 10, 2006
 Yesterday was cRaZy! Of course, Mark is gone again and that never makes things easy. The day started with my alarm going off at 6:30am. That's early for us. . . I guess we're lazy that way. Anyway, I was laying there listening to the radio when WEBE108 said they were giving away four tickets to Disney on Ice if you could tell them what a couple of kids in their twenties had just sold to Google. Well, for those of you who don't know me very well, I spend a lot of time watching Nick Jr, Noggin, PBS Kids and Disney. And I spend a lot of time listening to Laurie Berkner and Barney. And I rarely have time to read a book, newspaper or magazine. So, when I know the answer to a trivia question like the one they were asking, it's a really big deal. And as fat and sore and achy as I was feeling, laying there all lazy in my bed, I knew I had to get up and try and win those tickets. So I did. I hopped up so fast Mark would have been proud had he been there. And I snatched the phone and dialed and dialed and dialed and waited and waited and waited and then. . . someone else won the tickets. I don't even know how I knew the answer, which by the way is You Tube, but I did and I was so excited, because for once in a really long time I felt smart and educated and I so totally wanted to win those tickets. But I suppose our unlucky streak hasn't quite left us yet and it wasn't meant to be. So I dragged myself out of bed the rest of the way and got myself dressed for the day.
I got Hunter and Noah dressed and fed and off to school. Then I got Denver and Caleb dressed, fed and loaded into the car and we were off. We managed to arrive almost on time for my 9:15am doctor's appointment, which thankfully was pretty brief. Then, I loaded up the kids again and headed over to the Lopiano's where Johnette was waiting to take my kids for the morning. Denver and Caleb went with her happily, which is always a relief, and I ran out the door for my NST. I ended up sitting in the waiting room for 45 minutes which put me in a serious time crunch since Hunter and Noah had early dismissal and I had less than an hour to finish the test, walk all the way back to the Suburban (which I parked several blocks away because I'm afraid of parking it in the parking garage), drive all the way back home and run up to the school to get the boys. Anyway, MaryAnn apologized and promised she'd get me out of there by 12:30. So she hooked me up to the monitors and ended up holding Baby A's monitor on herself because he (and yes, it's definitely a "he") was so active he kept dropping off the monitor. MaryAnn said something about him being a "wild child" and then when she did the ultrasound she managed to get a shot of him waving at us both. Looks like we'll be having another rascal baby.
 Anyway, I shot out of that hospital. . . okay, I waddled very slowly out of the hospital and up the hill to the Suburban and sped off to get the kids at school. Once I'd gathered them up, I ran home for a sandwhich and flipped on the sprinkler so our newly reseeded lawn (and all of Mark's hard work) wouldn't be for naught. Then I loaded up Hunter and Noah and headed back to the Lopiano's to collect the other two boys. They all jumped on the Lopiano's trampoline for a few minutes while Johnette and I chatted and then we headed off for Benedict's and their infamous Hay Maze. The boys could hardly wait. I think they played in the hay for two hours and even when I insisted they come pick their pumpkin, they still weren't finished. Hunter is technically too tall for the hay maze nowadays, but that didn't stop him and several other "big boys" from having a blast in there. Denver had hay in his underwear, Caleb managed to eat several handfuls, Noah's shoes were full of the stuff and Hunter was dumping pocketfuls of hay all over the place as we left. The stroller is full of hay, the car is full of hay and even when we got home I was vacuuming up piles of the stuff. Ugh!
  
 We left with three small pumpkins (two are for homemade pumpkin pie which is so totally fun to make) and one is for Hunter's pumpkin house he is insisting on creating, which requires a big round flat pumpkin and a second, small pumpkin for the second story. I ran into the store for some chicken feed and wood shavings and then we headed out for Dairy Queen. It was dinner time and I really had no energy left for cooking and cleaning, so we picked up some hot dogs and ice cream and headed home. The boys were filthy (which is a major understatement) so of course, I had to throw them all in the shower and bath and get them scrubbed down, which is no easy task when you are as huge as I am. I got them in their pajamas, Hunter got his homework done, bedtime stories and then. . . the chickens started screeching like something was eating them alive. So I ran downstairs to check things out. . . nothing. So I returned to finish the books and Noah said, "When you were on your way downstairs I saw what it was." "Oh really," I said. "What did it look like?" "Well," said Noah, "It had four legs, two eyes and a nose." Hmmmmm. . . .
I managed to finish tucking the kids in bed and then practically fell in bed myself. But I had a terrible time sleeping without Mark to rub the knots out of my back and also because I freak myself out without my man around to protect me. And despite the fact that I had checked on the chickens and checked Hunter's blood and I was curled up with my giant Mag-Lite and steak knife and several telephones and the remote control, I couldn't get comfortable and I couldn't sleep. And I heard what sounded like a helicopter circling the house ALL NIGHT LONG and a racoon screaming in our backyard and Denver came in crying because he was too hot so I turned the A/C on high and he curled up next to me, which is not good when your pregnent and already immensley uncomfortable, and I woke up every half an hour the ENTIRE NIGHT and felt like it was never going to end. And then, when I finally fell asleep hard, I was rudely awakened by what I thought was Hunter having a seizure. So I jumped out of bed (despite my achiness and the pains in my back) only to find out my alarm had been turned down (from trying to win tickets to Disney on Ice) and I had overslept and it wasn't Hunter having a seizure but the boys fighting and I had all of twenty minutes to get them out the door. But they made it on time and looks like today will be a much slower day. . . I hope.
posted by Shana # 9:36 PM 
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