Busy busy busy

I honestly don't know how you moms who work out of the home full time do it. Please enlighten me. How do you manage work, kids, housework, volunteer activitis and sports? I know there are those of you who do it so tell me how you manage? Because franky, I am a mess and I have only worked 2 shifts!

We had a pretty good Saturday, Taylor (after a huge fight in which I called her a selfish bitch- god, I know it's awful, I hate myself for the things I find I'm saying to her) spent the afternoon with her dad (that's what the fight was about- she refuses to see him and, ffs, the man is dying. She's only got a few years to be with him.) and saw Pirates 3. Liam took a break from going, since he goes all the time when Taylor won't and decided to hang out with friends. William and I took the girls to the Valley Zoo. Saoirse had a great time, she was excited to see the tiger, the elephants, snakes, monkeys and the sea lions. She really wanted to see penguins, but I guess you have to do that at the mall. One walked right past us last week. I said to William that we should go down to Calgary one weekend, because really? The zoo there is about a thousand times better. I got some cute pictures and should I ever get around to downloading them I will actually post them. Along with the confirmation pics.

Saturday evening Saoirse came down with what appeared to be yet another bad cold. She was lethargic and wheezy. We gave her some ventilin and decided to see how the night went. She was pretty good Sunday, had a runny nose and eyes but was out and about with William all day until she crashed at about 4. And she slept. And slept. And slept some more. She coughed a lot through the night, woke up at about 7 this morning, came downstairs and fell right back asleep on the couch until gone 8. She woke up with her eyes all stuck shut, which she was none to pleased to have me remove. She didn't eat much today, just a spoonful of macaroni and cheese, some cheese and breadsticks and a few drinks. She played outside for a bit and then fell asleep at 3. Slept off and on until 8, was up for 2 hours and then went to bed. Sorry- I'm sure you don't care, but honestly this is the only place I will record this and I need to know should we go to the doctor.

Sunday was also supposed to be my cleaning day, but before I got a good start my friend Jen called and asked if I could take her son until her mum arrived to pick him up. Jen was cleaning her empty house, as she has just moved. So Bennett came over and I had an excuse to stop was unable to keep cleaning. An hour or so later Jen called and asked if I could keep him because her mum didn't want to take him because she wanted to plant her tomatoes! Jen said "I don't have a mum like you, Emma." And it's true, I am so lucky when it comes to my mum, who babysits whenever I need her. Plus, when I moved my mum cleaned my old house for me. In fact, she went over to Jen's that afternoon to give her a hand. Yes, she's a pretty good mother. Though she really pissed me off at Janine's mum's funeral on Friday, but that's a whole other story.

I have Bennett all week, and his sister in the afternoons, as their normal babysitter had gone off to Disneyland. Jen has asked me to babysit come September, but I don't think I could, as much as I would love to stay home I do realize that I need the money and working just 2 shifts is what I would get paid for a month of babysitting. So I may as well as work a couple of shifts a week and then have the rest of the time for just the girls and I. Plus, it's hard to clean up when you have 2 babies, a toddler and a troublemaking 6 year old to watch over!

Tonight I had my final school council meeting. It was sort of sad, knowing that I am going to be away from that school for at least another 2 years. Tomorrow and Wednesday Taylor has softball games right after school and both she and Liam have soccer in the evening. Tuesday and Thursday's are killing me right now, they both play at the same time, always at different fields and as William is Liam's coach he always goes to his game. Jen and I were trying to split soccer, as her oldest daughter plays on Taylor's team, but with me not a driver, it's been pretty unfair on her. On Sunday I just had William drop the girls off, which means they had no one watching to cheer them on. Tomorrow my mum's babysitting and they are playing a home game so I will just walk them over. I really need to get my license. Seriously. This is getting ridiculous. Did I ever tell you I failed 3 times? Yep. Three. I have a great big LOSER tattooed on my forehead. Granted, it was 15 years ago since the last attempt but I still think I would fail. I just get too nervous.

Anyway, I totally lost the point of this post which was supposed to be that I am overwhelmed with the crap going on and how the hell do you amazing moms do it? I really want to know.

Oh, and my washing machine broke down, almost started a fire and all the jeans sat in water for so long they have noticeably faded. It's a good thing my kids have so many clothes, they would be fine for a month I think, it's William and I that have the bare minimum. Yeah. It's going to be a crappy week.