Today was a disaster!! When my schedule is SO full, it just sets it up to be such if the slightest thing is off. Today it wasn’t a thing but a who, actually a few whos!! We stayed up WAY too late last night to start with. The kids and I were having way too much fun, we lost track of time. When we got up this morning, it was later than usual. The kids really wanted to jump with Lucy on the trampoline before we left for dance. What I didn’t realize was that none of us ate breakfast. No one said they were hungry, which is usually what happens the second everyone’s eyes open. We all just completely forgot. When Lu and I got ready to leave for dance, I realized her dance bag was missing. We were going to be on time too. I spent 10 minutes looking through everything! So I thought. When I finally gave in and grabbed the spare pair of dance shoes, I turned around to see Lucy’s dance bag on the floor in her closet. Ugh! Go to dance, and Lucy did NOT fall asleep in the van this time! Yay! Or so I thought. She was HORRIBLE in class. She wouldn’t listen, wouldn’t follow instructions, kept running off and disrupting the class. I was completely embarrassed. To top it off, she was mad at me when I tried to put her in her car seat, so she grabbed my necklace and would not let it go. In asking her several times to please let it go because it was going to break, she still wouldn’t. She yanked a really hard yank, and I snapped at her.  She started crying, but let go. The entire car trip I had to listen to her screaming to the top of her lungs. She has such a temper. I guess I did not learn enough about raising kids with the others. Lu is going to do me in. Even as crazy as Natalie was (and still can be at times😉) she never misbehaved in any of her classes like this. None of the other kids did. Luckily, after we made it to Academy to get Natalie’s equipment for soccer, Lucy calmed down and just laid her head on my shoulder. She fell asleep when we got back into the van to bring everything to Natalie’s school. After all that mess, we still had to run home to get everyone lunch, go to the store to get snacks for scouts, go to scouts, then leave early for a mandatory parents meeting back at the school for soccer. For the 15 minutes of the meeting, Lucy screamed for 13 of them! We have made quite the reputation of being the crazy lady with all the kids and the screaming baby. Sometimes I don’t even want to leave the house anymore it is so incredibly embarrassing! I’m trying to give the older kids opportunities, but it is horrible to try and do with Lucy. She does not make it easy at all! I am beginning to wonder about a Mother’s Day out program for her. I really think she needs some time away from me. Loving mom is great, but I am being smothered, and she is not learning that other people love her too and she can be fine and learn from them as well. After the meeting, the kids still had church activities they had to get to. Natalie tells me that her new soccer shoes are too small. Yeah, that is waiting for another day. I brought the boys and Lu home, and we played outside until we had to go back to get them. Then Dad finally came home. Sometimes I feel like it is a marathon getting to that point. Score at the end of the day: He brought home pizza for dinner! It might have been 9:00, but Lucy fell asleep in the van on the way to get the big kids from church, and was out for the rest of the night. I got to eat my dinner uninterrupted and go to bed somewhat early. Glad the day was over! I don’t want a repeat! 😳