Chronicles of a Supermom – Day 1

 

Why yes, you may be wondering what happened to me last night when I was clearly supposed to be blogging about my day. Somehow I fell asleep at 7:30, I kid you not. I know y’all were waiting with baited breath to see if I survived. Right?! Well I am happy to say that one day is down and all five people are still alive and in tact. Granted I have added some new accessories to my wardrobe, 2 rather large bags under my eyes. Boy are they beauties.

 

 

At any rate, our day started before the crack of dawn, at 3:15 in the morning. No lie. I crawled out of bed, and loaded 3 kids in the car for our trip to the airport. Thankfully my parents took Ethan for the night so he could get a full night’s sleep since he had school. Of course our trip to the airport was smooth because not even God is awake that early. Also, I am fairly certain nobody looks good at 3 in the morning. That thought is an urban legend.

 

Dropping Sam off almost seemed surreal. There was just simply no way he was going to be gone for 10 days. I’d like to say I was merely sad because I wasn’t going to be able to see or hear from him for those days, but honestly my wing man was gone. How was I supposed to fight toddler crime without him. Straight up, my kids can smell weakness from a mile away, and I was bathing in it without him. As I stepped up to the curb and hugged him tight, clinging to his smell, memorizing every detail of that moment, I was abruptly interrupted by a voice from above,

“Do not leave your vehicles unattended. All unattended vehicles will be towed at owners expense.”

Well played DFW Airport, well played. On that note, I squeezed Sam for the last time and headed back to the van. It was time to don my mask and cape…for now I was Supermom. Let’s do this thing.

Maybe it was my lack of sleep haze, or the shock of my new parenting role, but I swear I got lost in that airport like three times! That’s when the kids decided to chime in and “help” me find my way out. Yeah, they weren’t asleep. Why couldn’t they go back to sleep?! I needed Starbucks. But the one thing about being out and about at 4am is there is no Starbucks open. That should just be illegal, do they not know what I had been through at this point?!?! I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that when we made it home, I drove around in order to keep the rascals contained as I waited the 30mins for my beloved coffee shop to open. Don’t judge! Every Supermom does it.

 

 

To my surprise the kids were raring to go for the day. So like any good parent, I made a pallet in the living room and turned on a movie. Mom needed some beauty rest (see above 3am train wreck). Though by 7am Penelope had enough and needed to head back to bed. And somewhere after that I might have fallen asleep on the couch. I mean what Supermom doesn’t?! If I hadn’t I wouldn’t have had this beauty to wake up to.

 

 

Jealous?!

Thankfully the rest of the day flew by, but naps were minimal with the kids since I had to go pick Ethan up from school. Ethan happened to get a yellow face at school for his behavior. He thought it was appropriate to body slam a fellow classmate. Yes, we raise them well.

I knew the kids were going to crash and crash hard. So like any good mother, I tried to buy more “good” time with food. And who doesn’t love Jason’s Deli (or as Paisley calls it: Jason’s Belly)?!

 

 

Success! Our dinner went off without a hitch, but as we finished up our ice cream, I saw their eyes glaze over as they headed into a sleepy food coma. We needed to leave…and now. Once everyone was buckled into the car I was greeted by a chorus of screaming, crying, and general chaos. It was a beautiful thing. Ha.

So because I clearly mastered my first day as a Supermom, I finished it off by tossing the kiddos into bed at 6:30. No shame.

And I might have soon followed.

 

But it’s a new day….Let’s do this!