- Having a potty-training toddler
- Who will sometimes poop in the potty at school, but not at home
- Even if he is wearing Big Boy Underwear instead of a diaper
- Twice during the week before your first showing, including the night before
- Without telling anyone
- On the rugs
- And everywhere else he wandered before the smell gave him away
- Having a newborn
- Who cries unless she is actually being held (well, most of the time)
- And who is moving toward the poopsplosive stage herself
- Using your kitchen
- Going to awesome kids consignment sales (The woman in front of me had a Britax Regent for sale at $30 — WAH! As Noah would say, “I want some!”)
- BONUS: Having the entire economy, starting with the housing sector, begin to collapse completely.
- BONUS BONUS: Having a gasoline crisis in the metro area, in which almost no gas stations have gas, and those that do, have 2 hour lines and $20 purchase limits.
Other than being extra exhausted because most of my house stuff has been done while Josie sleeps after her last middle of the night feeding — which starts between 2 and 3 am — I’m doing ok.
Of course, if I don’t find an open gas station that has gas by Monday afternoon, that will no longer be true. Jill found one at 6 this morning, but by the time she left, the line was insane. At 6:30 am. On a Saturday.
At least I got the laptop functional. I hated HATED HATED not having Internet access for the last 2.5 days. Not even the little bit I’ve been getting since Noah was born.
Ok, time to join the rest of my sleeping family.
Do you live in CLT? There has been gas insanity here for several weeks!
I feel for everyone buying and selling houses right now. What a mess!
FIRST gray hair? We are SO out of synch on this one. I think mine arrived when I still lived in Portland. As you no doubt recall, that was 7 years ago. Since then, they have burgeoned. I even (overshare alert!) have gray pubic hairs.
On every other front, you have my sincere condolences and hopes that things will get better.
Yeah, I always hated the “sneaky pooper” who would go in a closet or behind the couch. Just know that they will be over it before kindergarten.
Hmm.
Ordinarily I read your NoahTales with a grin and think “ah, a glimpse into my future.” This one, though? Maybe a *grimace* and a glimpse into my future.
Hang in there!