Snow Days

I tend to wake up on Monday mornings with all sorts of crazy ideas.  This one was to invite my working friend's kids over for the snow day so she wouldn't have to use her valuable time off to stay home with them.  The oldest is really a sweet boy, but when he and my son  are together it's a nightmare.  They can't keep their hands off each other, they run around the house in constant motion, I saw a bottle of water (without the cap - gasp!) making its way upstairs for what ever reason, and just the general chaos.  You know it's going to be a rough day when they come in with their own toys.  You can say good bye to those silly kid!  By 11am I got them outside and watched like a hawk from my perch in the kitchen.  They could see me too.  Every time one of them hit my 4yo he'd look up to see if I was looking.  I figured if the little guy was hurt enough someone would tell me so I ignored it.  After an hour my 4yo was in tears but not because he was hurt; he didn't like the snow in his eyes, a sign he was getting tired.

After lunch the guest boy's little sister showed up so they all had someone to play with.  Within the first 5 minutes the two 4yos ran into each other, bonking heads and a subtle sound of a nose cracking.  They were both okay.  It wasn't a bad afternoon but at 4pm I started to lose it.  There was pee all over the downstairs toilet and the upstairs was clogged.  I noticed that all my toiletries had been rearranged.  My little one informed me that the older boys had the room deodorizer with them.  I didn't want to deal.  In the last hour everything fell apart, toys went everywhere, the kids were running all over the place, and I lost control.  To make matters worse my husband came home and just started yelling, so it got even louder to boot.  I had a headache.  Finally, at 5pm my friend arrived to collect the monsters.

Yesterday I found a coffee mug of something orange in my older son's bottom desk drawer.  That would explain the bottle of water.  Ahh, a science experiment.  I sure hope it was just the vanilla room spray they put in it.