Here's how the morning went

Well first let me give a bit of background information. Tayson had to have his book report turned in on the 27th. So on the 26th he finished reading his book (Diary of a Wimpy Kid II) and wanted to do a video scene from the book (his teacher is so much fun). So Meggan helped him figure out what to do and he, Luke and Claire made a video of the talent show (you can watch it here). After I put the kids to bed I was going to burn it to a DVD for him to take to school the next morning. This took 4 DVD's (2 of which I had to borrow from Steve) to get it so the kids didn't sound like Chipmunks. It caused lots of extra stress (yes I did smack my laptop at one point) but it was finally done so I put it out on the counter so I wouldn't forget in the craziness of the morning.

Back to how the morning went.....

So I had to teach spin then I knew I had an 8:00 am conference call with our marketing staff in Europe so I was very rushed to get ready. I kept thinking to myself...somethings gotta give either work, kids or beauty at this point because I didn't know how it was all going to happen. Somehow I managed to get ready by about 7:50 and hurried to get the kids breakfast. I poured the cereal, we said prayers and even got a few minutes of scriptures in. Then it was 8:00 and today of all days I had to lead the call. Usually I get on and listen while I'm doing things and when it's my turn to do my update walk in another room for 2-5 minutes. Not today I had to talk 90% of the time. So I'm talking, pointing at the kids what to do, giving them dirty looks to tell them when they weren't doing what they should be, unloading the dishwasher, etc. All the while frantically searching for the DVD which I somehow managed to lose. Let's not forget Sophie running around naked saying "poopy" so I kept trying to get her to sit on the potty and even muted my phone at one point and asked Claire to take her to the potty. Nice. I still can't find the DVD and it's 8:08 (they are supposed to leave for the bus at 8:05) so I hurry and write a note to his teacher that he did it and I lost it and will bring it in later then rush the boys out the door telling them to run to the bus. I finished my call around 8:20 and call my dad to see if he has any DVD-R's since I used all of the ones in my house last night and really don't want to go to Wal-Mart. Luckily he did and he was on his way out anyway so he dropped it by. He walked in to see me holding naked Sophie on my hip, with make up and hair done but still in my bathrobe and says "do you need help?". Not much he could do at that point besides what he had already done to help. Thanks dad that DVD saved me A LOT of time. So I set up my laptop to burn another copy and go to get dressed. I had to fight Sophie off the laptop 4 times during the burning process. Then about 30 seconds before the DVD finishes Claire walks in the room holding the other DVD and says "I found it in my room". What???? How did it get in there? She blamed Sophie - but I'm pretty sure that the night before when she was up during one of her nightly walks around the house before she decided she was finally tired enough to go to sleep she picked it up. Once I finished getting ready and Meggan got there at 8:30 I ran the DVD to Tayson's class and then off to work. Quite a morning. Thank goodness most mornings aren't like that.

I posted something on Facebook about how overwhelmed I felt while I was driving to work (yes I facebooked while driving....SOOOOOO bad!) That night one of my awesome neighbors made me dinner to help with the stress. It was so awesome. I was back to normal by the time I got home from work that day and could have done it. But it was so nice to not have to rush through making dinner for the kids. We just sat down together and enjoyed a few minutes of family time.