A headache night, a terrible morning.

Last night was a long one for me. I had a headache and was headed to bed so I took a Tylenol PM, with sleep stuff in it. I only took one, because If I take two I feel kinda groggy in the morning.
Well at about midnight Trenton started screaming. I got up with him and he was really upset and did not want to be calmed down. He would throw a bottle, food, even his Binky if I tried to give it to him. So I started rocking him. He calmed down a bit. So I offered him his Binky, so he could fall asleep, he threw that.

Then started screaming again. I said if you are going to cry anyways I will just put you back to bed. I did, that woke up Tyler, but after giving him a Binky and leaving, they both calmed down and went to sleep.

Well 2 o clock came and Trenton was crying again. I tried to ignore him, thinking he would go to sleep again, or Joe would get up with him. After 20 min I got up and went to him again.

Once again he was inconsolable. So I took him to the bathroom to hang out. He shut the door, sat down on the kid potty and we hung out. I decided that even though he had rejected food earlier, that is normal for him, I know he loves fruit snacks, and since he never eats he might be hungry.

I know fruit snacks are not super nutritious although they say they are made with real fruit juice but I was desperate to get him to eat so that I could get a little sleep. Due to the medication I had taken earlier, I could barely keep my eyes open, Trenton kept coming over to me and opening my eyes. I was considering laying on the floor and sleeping while he hung out, I was just so so tired.

Well back to the fruit snacks. I got him like 6 bags, opened them, dumped them on the ledge of the bathtub,then closed my eyes. He ate them so fast, leaving about 3 left, he was done and so was I, I put him back to bed and he fell asleep, finally!!! Tyler did wake up when I took Trenton back but once again a Binky in the mouth did the trick for him.

So when morning came I was exhausted to say the least. I could hear my kids getting up and could not get myself out of bed. The girls all went into the boys room and get this, they got them both out of their cribs.

I was delirious so I thought to myself that this was a good thing. They would put them in their high chairs and feed them. Boy was I wrong!!!

When about 10 min later the little ones found their way to my room, to get me up.


I was still feeling very drugged, but got up to be the mom I am supposed to be, even with lack of sleep. I went into the living room to find a huge disaster.

Ugh!!

"Who did this I screamed" (remember I am feeling very drugged, I would normally NEVER yell at my kids) Yeah right

"I don't know" was the answer.... Oh him, Mr. I don't know, IDK as we will call him, is one terrible culprit I must say.

Well.....

IDK had gotten the garbage can out and the trash was strewn all over the living room carpet.(that is many a dirty diaper folks)

IDK had opened two bag of English muffins shredded many of them into small pieces and thrown them about the living room.

IDK had dumped a box of chocolate Chex cereal all over the kitchen floor than walked on them to make them smaller and broken.
IDK had left cereal bowls on the table with left over milk in them which he had then thrown on the floor, making a milky mess that was wet and sticky and brown for Tyler to crawl though and get his pajamas soaked in the yucky mess.

IDK had taken several blankets and made some sort of fort on the couch.

Needless to say I was pretty miffed at IDK.

My older girls were sitting among the mess looking through the many scrapbooks I have made, oblivious to the disaster around them. (They are also not allowed to get out the scrapbooks without permission.)

Jacqueline was the one who got the babies out and did nothing to stop the insanity that then ensued. I asked her why she did that. Her response was "I was being a brat." What? Is that a good, reasonable reason these days? I am confused?

Well after some good solid time outs, then got to cleaning up the mess. It looks fine now, but boy was it a disaster.

That is the last time I get a headache at night. Well maybe not the last time for headaches, but I don't think I will be taking any Tylenol PM again any time soon.