Day 1 and I'm about to lose it!!

PART 1



The Dad left today. Well wait let me back up.....Kirke got out of bed got a shower as loudly as humanly possible cause I still wanted sleep! He said goodbye like 22 times then went out the door.....loudly. He came in about five minutes later, stomped his way up the stairs (which is not safe in our house....see earlier pictures) to the room and said "I can't figure out how to program Maggie without a street address"!



Of course he can't program MAGGIE , who by the way is our Magellan navigation system. Why would he be able to type in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland and have it give him turn by turn directions to his destination! So I drag my lazy butt that hates mornings with a passion, especially when they involve the Army stealing away my husband six weeks earlier then necessary, out the door. I run out in my sweatpants, jacket and barefeet to his old beater of a car that has the doors locked! Duh look up here I am running to the car unlock the door please, I'm cold it's freezing out, please please let me in! Finally he did. (I'm sure it was really only a matter of seconds but in the morning my seconds are prescious!) And of course once I got in Maggie was "calculating route" which meant he had figured it out all on his own, I'm so proud........or mad and cold!



PART 2



Ok so then I get up, get two bratty boys dressed and ready to go to Lebanon 35 miles away for Tate's OT appointment. We stopped at Mc'D's for breakfast then proceeded to listen to my now 5 yr old cry because he wanted a cheeseburger not a mcgriddle because today he hates mcgriddles! We arrive at therapy after I blasted my music so loud on the drive I was able to pretend that the screaming from the back was simply my groupies singing along! Anyhow, at the OT clinic the receptionist smiled and said, "I tried calling about 45 minutes ago (if I had skipped the breakfast Hell I would have been there to get her call too) to tell you that his OT was out sick today." Okay seriously they open at 7am why wait till 9:15 to call me?



Then when we got in the car I noticed Korbin's eye was all pink and gunky. Nice huh? We've never experienced pink eye so why not start now! I call our military provider to get an appt and suprise surprise no openings today or tomorrow "but they can give us a one time referral off post if they have openings in the civilian dr's office". Super right? Not so much, see that meant calling another office registering him as a patient at their handy 1-800 number and then praying they could see him. OH and the person on the other end of the line was a previous host for TUPPERWARE for me and I recognized her voice and maybe her name too..... ok the name gave it away. She wanted to book a party for April, woohoo SCORE ! Yay! They had an opening, this must be my lucky day!



Home we go, took Tayton to school, and back home with Korbin. Time for the appointment so we pick up Tate early from school and go on to the doctors office. Had to fight Korbin from drinking from the drinking fountain cause they freak me out especially in a nasty doctors office full of sick people! I know shocking right? Then we wait and wait then he gets seen, yep pink eye, super. We're off. But wait, we have to check out, something new to me because we don't check out at the military dr's office we just go on our way. Then the lady cant find Korbin in the system. Turns out they spelled his name wrong! This meant I had to go use their nasty public phone set up for calling that 1-800 number again to fix their mistake while the nurse had to go change it on his prescription! UGH so much trouble! AND she tried to tell me I spelled it wrong! "Umm yeah lady you're right it's Corbin not Korbin silly me I've been messing it up for over 5 years thanks for catching that!"

Now we got home the boys are grounded which is torture to the mom. Into bed at 7 they go but wait, it's after 9 and I still hear little feet upstairs!

Let the fun begin.....bring it on, this is day 1 I'll have bags under my eyes and gray hair by Friday at this pace!