Today was a rather interesting day in our house, so interesting in fact I thought I would share it with you all.
7am-woken up by mum asking if I needed to go to hospital (bump has been very quiet over the last couple of days....a little too quiet. Plus I've felt the bump drop and been having a few pains. With my history of not making it to hospital [with Mr4] I have to get everything checked out). Decision made we were going to hospital.
8am-a blood curdling scream came from the toilet while I was in the bedroom. This wasn't your average scream, this was the absolute scream of death. Mum was in the shower and nearly had a heart attack and I was in the bedroom and came running out (which is hard with a fat bump) to see what had happened. Mr4 was in the toilet and a mosquito had landed on him. He was literally frozen to the toilet seat. I had to grab his hand and drag him out of the toilet, pants around his ankles to calm him down. Honestly the scream he did made me think someone's finger had gone missing at the very least!!!
8:30-piled the kids in the car (after Miss5 had a meltdown about not wanting to go to school) only to discover my maternity paperwork was missing from its place in the centre console. The drivers side door also wasn't closed properly. Someone had ransacked my car. Bugger!! That maternity paperwork is super important, it's the ONLY record the hospital keeps of some of my antenatal stuff and I needed it to get to the hospital. After scrounging around the front yard we couldn't see anything so, pissed off I jumped in the car to drop the kids off.
8:32-pulled out of driveway, noticed antenatal folder in neighbours bushes and went flying up their curb to run and grab it.
8:35-back in the car and running very late we started the drive to school. Mum was separating soaked pages of my antenatal records and holding them in front of the air con which was going full blast.
9:00-arrived at school 10 minutes after the bell. Threw the kids in their classes with a quick kiss and cuddle.
9:05am-sat in the car and further spread out paperwork, cranked up the rear air cons to try dry paperwork faster.
9:10-finally on our way to hospital.
9:40-arrived at maternity ward after getting lost (note to other expectant mums, make sure you KNOW where the maternity/labour ward is for when you really need it!)
9:50-man came in and said "my wife's in labour" turned around only to find no one with him. "Oops she's back there she's having a contraction" mum, the receptionist and I all looked at each other and burst out laughing!! The poor woman got left behind because hubby didn't notice she was having a contraction!!
10:10-midwife finally took me through to get checked out. Hooked bubs up to a heart monitor. Baby didn't play ball so I had to eat freezing cold ice water to try and wake her up. She seemed to be doing well. Midwife made remark that baby seemed to have a small head. I was happy!
10:45-grumpy unhelpful midwife sent me home with no reason why baby had almost not moved at all for two days.
11:00-stopped for a feed of hot chips to keep us both going
11:30-arrived at cop shop to report car being ransacked (and mums car which was done over 2 weeks ago) receptionist "just let me turn the oven off and I'll be with you" mum and I exchanged glance. She returned with a tray of covered food, placed it on a table and returned to us. Mum and I had to hide our giggles. We started to report our issue. The poor old biddy was so lost and confused at our straight and simple story. I have no idea what actually got written on the paperwork. As we were finishing up the old biddy grabbed a piece of paper and said "you can always contact us on these numbers and of course if you want to know what's happening in your area or for helpful information you can follow us on twitter." Seriously did she just tell us to 'tweet' the cops??
Giggling like little school girls mum and I left. Neither of us do the twitter thing...and we kind of prefer to tell cops when something goes wrong-not tweet them!!
12:30-arrived home, dazed and confused. Scoffed down a quick lunch, caught up on last nights Revenge episode.
1:30-back in the car to pick the kids up early. Miss5 had a continence appointment.
2:00-arrive at kids school to pick them up.
2:30- arrive continence clinic. Park on a steep downward facing hill. Giggle that with all the weirdness today car will end up in river by end of day.
3:30-emerge from appointment with some good helpful tips. Make way to shops.
3:40-get stuck behind man with annoyingly fast windscreen wipers on-it's not raining. Followed him the entire rest of the way to shops. Not sure if he notices super fast wipers going.
4:00-arrive at local shop and stop for a coffee and cake, we deserve it after a strange day.
4:20-start out in Kmart. Kids have a dress up 'as something you want to be when you grow up day' at school.
4:30-convince Miss5 that she CAN'T be Dora the Explorer or Cinderella when she grows up.
4:32-convince Mr4 he CAN'T be a monster when he grows up.
5:00-leave kmart with a fireman and ballerina costume.
5:10-finish up with dog food and dinner at woolworths
5:30-finally leave shopping centre and realise it's too late to cook the pre packed lasagne we brought.
5:40-arrive home and microwave lasagne. Kids ate 3/4 I had small slice, none left for Grandma! Oops.
6:15-bath time.
6:30-story time. While reading Peter Pan I asked Mr4 "how do you think you get to Never Land?"
"Um, you have to go past Hong Kong" I was told.
6:47-listened to Miss5 reading story with Grandma. Miss 5 remarked how late it was getting "6 4 7, wow that's late!"
7:00-finally kids all in bed Miss5 thinking she was staying up sooooooo late!!
7:10- Mr4 ran out with tears in his eyes "mum I didn't do my homework." The tears weren't from not doing his homework though. I have a very sad little boy tonight. Refusing to cry or let on that he is sad-but with my mummy skills I can see the sadness in his eyes.
7:30-decide to move the cars around in case someone comes back for another go at them
7:40-run inside like Anna from "Frozen" after she goes through to cold water and turn the heater on full blast to defrost.
7:50-give up on the day and start getting ready for bed.
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