definitely not from my true love, but...

sing with me! on the 10th day of the new year my true love gave to me... 3 puking kids, 2 blow out diapers, and an overflowing toilet! (there will be no pictures accompanying this post!)
it's been a fun day. i just needed to get that out. so. my washing machine is working overtime today!
my dear kiki who is the only kid not sick came and "taunted me" (singing oo, oo, oo, oo, oo to the na, na, na, na, na we're working on not hearing in our house) while i was cleaning up the full 2 inches of water from the bathroom floor. i came out to speak with him and asked why he might need discipline. "idk". i thought i'd guide him to the answer - which he really didn't know because he wasn't really taunting me. "what was mommy doing?" - "cleaning the bathroom" - "what did you do wrong?" - "i went pee pee" - ok. nevermind.
then there's jojo. he wanted french toast for breakfast. we didn't have enough eggs. i said we'd go to the drive-thru dairy when sy woke up from nap and have french toast for lunch. (ky had only thrown up once at this point and it seemed like we'd be able to manage a 10-minute car ride). ky went down before sy woke up. so we had to wait for her too. when she was stirring i loaded up sy and jojo got in the car. kiki said he needed to run back to go potty (you already know what happened there). i came back in to get ky to put her in the car, but had just stepped into the house when i heard jojo yell from the car. i ran back and saw he was going to be sick. i got him out of the car just in time - only the driveway and the neighbors lawn were offended. then kiki came yelling at the front door with only a shirt on, "mom help! my shorts got a little wet when the toilet overflowed!" WHAT?! i ran inside. sure enough, water's still running... i shut off the water. grabbed every towel i owned which had not yet been used to clean up other fun things and threw them down to try to avoid ruining our carpet and vanity. ran back outside to retrieve poor sy (who's been strapped into his seat the whole time) and tell jojo to come in. whew! i told jojo that french toast just wasn't going to happen today. BUT he looked so sad and asked really nicely, so...
once things were back together and a load of towels started in the washer, i loaded the kids in the car to retrieve some eggs from the drive-thru dairy. i stopped momentarily to wash off the driveway and dilute our contribution to our neighbors' lawn at which point i also hosed off my pants - unintentionally, of course. oh well - i thought - nobody at the drivethru will care if my pants are wet.
on the 2 1/2 mile drive to the dairy, ky got sick 4 or 5 times and jojo twice. i had containers for that purpose. each time i thought - what in the world am i doing!? but it didn't stop me. each time i asked jojo - do you still want frenchtoast? and just like his mother, he would not be deterred from his mission. we've been learning about perseverance, but i am not sure this was the time to stick with anything!
sy fell asleep on the way home. ky & jojo wanted to try some dry toast, which proved unsuccessful as it came back a minute later. kiki had lunch. we read "the magic school bus and the giant germ"(how appropriate) for "school" and now they're all asleep. except sy who of course woke up right about the time the others went down. after all mom was free to play now! :)