Seriously, anxiety again?

So I know this blog is an emotional roller coaster. I quite literally just finished editing some typo's on my very fabulous day, but tonight SUCKED! This blog is to allow you to see that you are not alone. We are not crazy, even though we feel like we are.

I had envisioned this fabulous night with my kids, giggling and cuddling and watching a movie together while curled up on the couch...then reality hit. Homework and snacks and more homework. Homework that had to be printed out in color, yes that's where I began to unravel.

I ran out of ink in my color printer yesterday and took the time to find my phone and add it to the list of things I needed. If I didn't stop and do it right then, it would have become that annoying thing I forgot for 3 or 4 weeks and didn't have when I really needed it. (Tongue-in-cheek) Luckily...I didn't have to wait that long to need it. Homework that has to be printed either in color or in black-and-white is straight from the devil. You know what else is from the devil? Printer/Scanner/Copier's that will not scan if the ink is empty. What is that about??? How infuriating...I had thought of this whole other solution to my printing woes when I realized this ridiculous design flaw. Where is the moron that invented this thing when you need to release some tension? Seriously?

So cool enough, I bought a laser printer just this morning, I simply forgot to check aforementioned list until I was already in my car pulling out, to remind myself that I needed ink for the deskjet. I was NOT going back in. So I send the item to my email and felt extremely proud of myself when I was able to print from my phone for the first time ever! OK, how awesome is that? IT'S NOT because my new laser printer is MONOCHROMATIC! That's right, it printed out in black and freaking-white! Sheesh. So I thought to myself, I wish we still had that old printer that we used before we bought the deskjet. I peeked out the door to the garage when all of the sudden...I see it!!! OK, I finally have the solution as I run through the mine-field-like heap, that is my garage. I grab the printer and run into the kitchen and go to hook it up when I realize....THERE IS NO CORD!!!! AHHHHH! CAN'T FIND THE STINKING CORD!!!

It's 7pm at this point and my youngest school-aged child has to be in bed at 7:30 or it is absolutely the end of the world! So I grab the baby and wrangle the kids and RUN out the door telling them, sure, you can wear your pajamas but you'll have to wear them inside the store! They were great with that. We drive to the store (not the same one because I swore I was NOT going back) and we went to get out and 3 of 4 people in my car have NO SHOES!!! Are you kidding me??? Was this all some sort of sick joke? Am I on Candid Camera or being "Punked" or something? Much to all of our dismay, the children go inside in sock feet. We grab the ink and decide to peruse just a bit but before we can check out I take my eyes of my son for one second and hear an ALARM GOING OFF. Of course, I knew it was something that one of my children had done but wasn't sure which one. I spy the boy-child and his cheeks are rosy-red. It was him, despite the "if you don't have enough money in your pocket to pay for it, then don't touch it" rule, he "just" picked it up and set off an alarm that of course wouldn't stop until a store clerk came and manually took care of it. At this point I can't get them back in the car fast enough as thankfully, we begin to make our way back home. THEN I realize I have to RUN, very quickly, in to the gas station and as we're pulling in, my darling son said to me "mom can we go eat at _________ (insert favorite mexican food restaurant here)? To which I swiftly replied "NO WAY, we just ate dinner", wait....did I feed you dinner??? "No", I hear from the backseat.

Since I had already lost the mother-of-the-year trophy, I so desperately desired, at that point I went in and got them each a big bag of chips and a hoagie to split. That's right people, chips from the gas station is what they ate and they LOVED it! Hahaha! So basically what I'm trying to say is that things don't always work out as they are planned and life can seriously kick you right in the...teeth sometimes, but just remember to BREATHE! This too shall pass, and when it does, I'll need a whole lot more therapy because I totally adore every single one of them. I can't imagine how boring my life would be without them in it.