Do-Over Day

Today was supposed to be the day when I finished all my outstanding Christmas tasks.  My mom was going to watch the girls and I was going to wrap gifts and finish my shopping.  I was giddy at the very idea of such unencumberedness.

Sadly, it was not meant to be.  At 9:00 a.m., I found out my mom was sick.  Not only was she sick, but she was also babysitting my two nieces today too.  So instead of shopping, I ended up picking up my girls and my nieces too.  The only good thing about that is I had a fleeting thought about how nice it would be to have a third child this morning.  8 hours with four kids cures me of that notion, let me tell you.

As if babysitting on my day off was not enough of a bummer, in early afternoon, my 6 year old niece crashed out on the couch and when she woke up two hours later she had spiked a fever.  I fear that the chances that my girls will both be healthy for christmas after spending the past couple days with my mom and their cousin is almost nil.

THEN, when the nieces went home and I thought I was home free, M totally lost her shit.  She devolved into a colossal low-blood-sugar  tantrum in which she stomped around for 20 minutes yelling over and over that she DOES NOT LIKE SUSHI! and she DOESN’T WANT TO GO TO HALF PRICE SUSHI NIGHT! and THEY DON’T HAVE CHICKEN TERIYAKI THERE, ONLY SUSHI AND SHE WON’T EAT IT AND YOU CAN”T MAKE HER!!! (Which is completely false. They DO have teriyaki chicken and about 50,000 other things she would like, but M was too worked up to acknowledge it when I showed her on the sushi restaurant’s website.)

When we finally got to half-price sushi night(very late due to the tantrum) , we discovered that there was a line out the door.  We had to come home and eat hot dogs for dinner.

Today sucks, yo.  I am going to have a beer now.