Well, bless your heart!

Wonder woman, I am not! Who knew that so many things could go wrong in under 10 min.? Deane is on military duty for a month, so I feel like a single parent. I have felt like that before, the last time the military took him away. Nobody can prepare you for this however. We left to come up and stay with family while he was away, so here we are. I am learning so much, and having fun...most of the time. There are sometimes that I would like to ask to leave and come back another day. I know that my answer would be, not yet, you would never want to come back. Here I am..today,it all started with dinner. Gabriella was not happy, no matter what I gave her to try. She tried some watermelon tonight that my sister-in-law grew in her garden. She ate it hand over fist! She was still crying. I took her upstairs to get her ready for bed, and this is where it all happened. I was running the water in the tub, and made sure I had everything I needed to go through the bedtime routine. She loves the water, but apparently not tonight. She screamed through all of it. While she was screaming though, Nephi decided to come upstairs and see what was going on.  He thought he could kill two birds with one stone and get in clothes and all! I finished with Gabriella and wrapped her in a towel and put her on one hip. With the other arm I washed nephi, rinsed him off, and then he said he wanted to 'swim.' FINE...I went to the bedroom (right next door to the bathroom) and got Gabriella dressed and ready for bed, when I hear, "mom, I have to pee!" I pick her up, and go to the bathroom, help him out...and he falls to the floor. He doesn't cry, but got frustrated that he fell and it prolonged him holding it in. He does his thing, and then looks to me and says, "mom, I have to poop!" Since he is standing so he can do his first business, I need to put down the seat so he can do his second business. He was crying and screaming not to do that, but I insisted, because I didn't want to fish him out of his own...(well, you can fill that in.) Much to my dismay, he was already going, and really couldn't wait! So now he has poop all over the floor on the little carpet thing that is in front of the toilet. (i have no idea what the name of it is) Baby on hip, I reach over to the toilet paper, tare some off and start picking it up. As I am dumping the dump, my finger goes through the POOP! Now I have it all over my fingers.  Meanwhile now both children are screaming. I wash my hand, I get it cleaned up and Nephi gets down, and finds out that in the downloading process he STEPPED in his own (fill in the blank!) I wipe up the stuff, clean up the stuff and walk into the hallway just to find a staple in the carpet with my heal!!! (did you know that you don't need a stapeler to get the thing halfway into your heal????) I pull the thing out and get Nephi's toothbrush and toothpaste from the bathroom, to take two screaming children, into the bedroom. I brushed Nephi's teeth, we said prayers, (all while Gabriella is still crying) and he climbed into bed. I went over to the bed Gabriella and I are sleeping in to feed her. My little Nephi with his sweet voice said, "good night momma." (of course that was after he shushed me for being to loud when I told him I loved him." I fed Gabriella, who was asleep in 5 min. and so was Nephi. Now I am sitting here trying to balance my checkbook and realize I can't...I have forgotten the ID and Password to our bank! Now I am eating ice cream and laughing about what has just taken place. However, not too hard, because it is still just to fresh! (no pun intented) So I just wanted to 'whine'.....now I am done!