sooooooo... today my mum (mom) & cousin came to visit from italy!!! yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
i was up really late tidying up the night before, doing washing, making up beds etc etc. i had a really busy day today: a dr's appoint @ 8.15 which we were a bit late to because flynn, (my 4 year old son) couldn't find one of his shoes... i know i keep saying this, but this is when i'm so thankful that humans have two feet... seriously... it's hard enough sometimes finding a pair of something...
dr's appointment took longer than i expected arhhhhh i don't have time for this today....
squeeze in a drop off for a client
pharmacy pick up... left boys watching tv in car to run in but forgot we have changed insurance, so had to run back to car for new card & then they had to input the new info & run the prescriptions again... i had to stop myself from jogging on the spot & saying go faster!!! then i ended up paying $45 for a minuscule tube of cream for my eye! no generic grrrrrrrr
shopping trip to 3 stores... first one trader joes. flynn was napping & oscar (my 5 3/4 year old son) was pushing him in the stroller. it was literally 40 winks, so i closed the stroller & after trying every which way to fit it under the shopping trolley (cart) i balanced it on the top... which was fine, i just needed a bit more clearance to manoeuvre... this very loud, very blonde, very overweight lady picked the wrong to be strutting her stuff around the wine section trying to sound oh so knowledgeable about every single bottle... somehow it didn't matter how many times i managed to get around her she got in front of me again!!! i just wanted to tell her to keep still!! of at least take your hands off your hips pleaseeeeeee there isn't enough room for that!
next to whole foods & then wegmans. oscar wanted to go in w kids!! but flynn didn't ~ he said the bracelet was spiky... i was trying to convince him that that was fixable but he wasn't having any of it. so i think to myself i need a coffee. i get in the line & i don't understand what the person in front of me ordered but it was taking forever!! i could have prepared it faster with my hands tied behind my back.
i begin rushing round when flynn says... mum (mom) i need to go poo. nooooooooooooo!!!! seriously!!! i'm keeping calm... after i've asked him 3 times are you sure we head to the toilets (restrooms). i park the shopping trolley (cart) only to get glared at by this guy because i am in front of the newspapers & he wanted one of them.
after wiping down the toilet (i can't tell you how many public toilets i've cleaned since i've had kids) i put 2 seat covers on & lift flynn on. i wait outside as instructed by him... & wait 10 minutes... i swear he'd be whistling or reading the newspaper if he could do either. i ask him a couple of times if he's done ~ no not yet!!!!
when what seemed like an eternity has past flynn announces that he doesn't really need to go...
shopping done ~ rush home, put shopping away, vacuum, tidy porch, get towels out, get flowers ready to give guests... then LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE!!!!
i have not left the 3 hours my lovely friend jackie said... i wanted to but i just didn't get enough done... :(
my phone is on charge in the car, got my gps leading me. every single traffic light is red, everyone is driving miss daisy... COME ON ~ i got to get me to jfk!!!
once over the verrazano bridge my gps dies ~ so i take my phone off charge & plug in my gps. nothing happens... i look at the plug & the end has broken off... nooooooooooooooooo!! i'm quite scared now ~ i have no idea what road to take... i have absolutely no room for error... noooooooo!! i call my friend, basit, but no answer.... so i'm guessing which road... while looking for the pieces of the gps charger on the car floor. i find a metal end piece, the broken piece of plastic that looked like it held it all together (i'd just lost my one of those!!!) a small glass tube with silver ends. still driving i'm trying to assemble. i need something to hold it together... realizing that i cleaned out my car that day i rack my brain as to what i can use... i kept thinking how people always stick things together with chewing gum on the tv!!!
then i suddenly remember the stickers oscar was given @ w kids & ask him for them. i tear them up into strips & stick them around the charger & plug it in. guess what... IT WORKED!!! i could believe it!!! WOO HOO!!! what a crap road the belt parkway is... i mean seriously. i kept switching lanes in the hope i'd pick a winner ~ but no. time is ticking ~ i so want to get there & be waiting @ the gate. i call my husband, mike, who is in germany & tells me about flight tracker ~ arhhhhhhh the website was all wrong!! they've landed!!
STRESS STRESS STRESS ~ lets go traffic. i finally arrive, park the car with almost a handbrake turn!! grab the boys and go to the terminal, just as they were coming out of the airport (not quite sure where they were going!!)
big hugs all round!! & safe journey home ~ HOORAY!!!!!!!!!! (eye cream ~ best $45 spent!)
