Yesterday was rough

Yesterday was rough, but it was totally my fault. Sort of. Half of it? I don't know.

Anyway, we had double piano lessons I thought, but the second one ended up being canceled because the teacher was sick. Which usually I would be ecstatic about but this time we had a birthday party invitation. And everything was linear and suddenly with the cancelation, it wasn't. The birthday parrty was near Altavista (47 minutes from my home) and so I didn't want to go home for thirty minutes and leave again... so we went to target and window shopped. If I went home I'd be driving 15 minutes away from the birthday party...seemed unproductive. Target it was!

We bought nothing. 

Window shopping made me tired and then we still had 30 minutes to drive. Which is fine, Esther slept the whole time. And the birthday party was wonderful. The weather was perfect, the birthday girl was glorious and all the party guests played together wonderfully and I got to chat with other moms which is my kind of party. The kids cups were filled and they didn't want to leave at 4:30 but we had karate at 5:30 and we were 47 minutes away and suddenly I felt a little skeptical about the long drive.

5 minutes into our drive Becky started crying she was itchy. Becky is allergic to grass. Why she chooses to roll around in it when she is allergic to it, I'll never understand. There was a lot of grass. And goats. I don't homestead at all but I can appreciate a good goat when I see one. 

I am also allergic to grass. No thank you to the rolling in my allergy. But I'm not eight and hanging out with my best friends... 

Well, when Becky started crying from The Itchy, then Esther started crying because she was thirsty and Reuben, trying to hand her the water bottle, mishandled it (he said I went over a bump. We were on back roads, of course I was going over bumps) and suddenly emptied it all over the car. 

So now I have 40 more minutes of driving with one itchy eight year old and a thirsty (wet?) hot toddler and also no air conditioning. Why I do this to myself I don't know. Oh, friends are great and I love them but driving long distances with crabby kids is zero fun. 

We skipped karate and drove home and threw everyone through showers and checked for ticks then I made bagels for dinner and put myself to bed like the potato I am. It was wonderful. And also irritating. 

I thought I wouldn't have to leave the house today but we do have to pick up our raw milk and Becky has a wonderful group piano class so here we go! Tomorrow I will be a potato and stay home all day. Or maybe we will go to the park.

Motherhood and parenting with toddlers and in-betweens really keeps me on my toes. I'm so glad we are done with school for this week! Oh the break and the weather has been wonderful. Esther's been watching Kiki's Delivery Service on repeat this week and we've been reading all sorts of books in family time and most of the chores are getting done and I cleaned and decluttered our bedroom and its just wonderful. If only no one would cry for extended periods of time while I'm driving, that would be great. 

It just goes to show you that we can't have it all, and that's okay.