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DH comes home tomorrow - my collection of parenting fails
Stop reading now if you don't like gross stuff.
DH flew home 10 days ago after his grandfather, uncle and aunt died all within the span of about 2 weeks and I felt like my life was turned upside down during those ten days, but I cannot express enough gratitude for the IN's in their support given to me during this time - from BlushingRose dropping everything to spend a week at my house to help out, Coffee and Cream, Esuvak, Neeps, Blushing and NCV2 meeting up for coffee, NCV2 bringing brownies and helping me through one of the most grotesque parenting moments of my life in a pub bathroom that I will never be welcome at again, Chelbel's offers of help despite having her own infant to care for across town and the awesome support and messages of everyone on the boards.
For what it's worth, DH is a stay at home dad and I've never really been the twins' primary caregiver - let alone while working full time and being in and out of the hospital for tests and crap with this damn disease all while still recovering - it's been rough.
However, there have been highlights (erm... not for my kids, though). While DH was gone:
Lochie will be welcoming daddy home tomorrow with a shiner. The kid damn near concussed herself today literally running into a door. I spent a good hour on the phone with the NHS about Kaitie, who may have swallowed an undetermined number of my idiot sister's antidepressants. Kaitie puked on the floor and I left it there for only a few minutes while cleaning her up - Lochie ate it. Well, part of it. Huar Huar ate the rest. Lochie shat herself in a pub so badly that I was picking corn out of the back of her hair (unsure of when we actually ate said corn) and I left her clothes in the bathroom bin. I didn't have spare clothes, a wet bag or anything that mums are supposed to instinctively bring. I left not one, but both strollers out in the rain. Twice. I fed them frozen pizza - three times. I can't remember when I last bathed them. I'm sure it was sometime this week. I had never bought diapers before, and bought the wrong ones. I used them anyway. They didn't work. I sent my IT guy and my receptionist to my house to mind my children. I debated cooking and eating the cat with a nice side salad. I've let them watch so much tv that even though they don't yet speak, they can both sing the mickey mouse theme song. I've resorted to giving one the iPad and the other my iPhone just so I can pee in private for a moment.
It's been a very long 10 days and I can't wait for DH to come home - he's going to get a lot more appreciation from me from now on and if any of your husband's have been thrust with the kids and their job out of nowhere and survived to tell the tale, they have my utmost respect.
In the end, I had a heck of a lot of help and we've all survived to tell the tale, but I'll strangle the bastard if he ever takes off on me like that again!
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
Re: DH comes home tomorrow - my collection of parenting fails
My dad's boss had twins and his wife used to joke that she was keeping copious notes on their childhoods to save time for the therapist later. Someone around here needs to save these reports for you for that reason.
Seriously though, you all survived; everything else is lagniappe. Not that I had any doubts.
Congrats on surviving and hopes that your family's next few weeks are quiet enough to allow for some recovery.
I'm gone at a seminar all of next week and DH, who has also never been DD's primary caregiver, will have her at his parents' (who are very hands-off with her, their first grandkid). I'm interested to see if he ends up with stories like yours, although with toddler twins I'm sure the situations are all a bit more extreme!!
It sounds like you all survived and are healthy minus a black eye, though, so I'd say you did a good job! Strollers dry, new clothes can be bought, poop and puke can be cleaned up. :-)
Hurray for IN help!
Glad you all survived, sounds like a crazy week.
Wow! From three deaths to the lost and found (2x) Meds! What a week!
Wish you all a peaceful, perhaps even boring, week!
jesus. that was a hell of a 10 days. I can't imagine.
glad you survived!
Whenever my friend leaves her husband in charge, she just asks that she comes home to the same number of children she left :-) Anything else that goes well is a bonus!
sounds like a rough week but I love hearing the IN support stories, so amazing.
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
well done on surviving the 10 days - sounds harrowing!!!
SO glad to hear you had such great IN support though - how wonderful
you did it lady - pat yourself on the back - you are a good Mom - and a little bit too much tv for a week never killed anybody!
Well my nanny running 10 mins late this morning so I had DS in the bathroom with me while trying to finish getting ready, he managed to: eat soap (an exfoliating body bar no less), put his toothbrush in the toilet, my iPhone in the bathtub (which had some water left over from my shower but survived) and my contact case in the bin (but I finally found it!). So twins for 10 days I think you did excellent. I you and DH deserve a really nice take-away and bottle or two of wine tonight!
And yeah for IN help!!
I'm absolutely howling with laughter at this! Howling! (which isn't great, because NVC2 gave me the flu and I literally laughed so hard at this that I nearly shat myself at my desk and had to make a run for it)
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
I think I love you.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
You girls are wonderful.
ROFL @ keeping notes to save their therapists time later.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk