and today was a good day

today was just one of those days when nothing seems to go right, and today was a good day. it all began as i started my morning cleaning up mouse poo in my kitchen. at first i thought they were strange little crumbs that jason left behind, until i started finding them in different places. then it dawned on me. and i went into a cleaning frenzy, even though my kitchen was already clean. it's during times like these when i reevaluate the credibility of disney. i don't care how amazing of a chef remy is, never ever in my life would i ever eat food prepared by a rat. period.

so today, i was making a trip to the grocery store for food and mousetraps. while i was getting the diaper bag ready, riley was walking around with her morning snack dropping goldfish crumbs in various spots around the house. as i headed back up to riley's room to grab some more size 4 diapers, i stepped on one, leaving a heap of crumbs at the bottom of the stairs. as i thought about the little treat i had now gift-wrapped for our furry little friend, i was distracted enough to forget the diapers.

as we pulled out of the drive, i decided to give jason a call to see if he needed anything from the store, and my phone wouldn't dial. awesome. so, i made a "quick detour" over to jason's office to have him fix whatever setting he messed with. it was close to lunchtime, so hopefully we wouldn't be interrupting anything important. i took my chances on getting in without jason expecting us (they have security doors with card-swipe entry). we managed to get through the gate, but riley lost it when the door she wanted was locked and we couldn't get to daddy. so i "snuck into" the office with a toddler throwing a tantrum. two-year-olds...

long story short: we ended up going to lunch with daddy and some work friends after he heard her from another level in the building and came to the rescue. before we could even order our food at the restaurant, riley spilled water on her shirt. of course, now it was "yucky" and we had to pull it off. remember those little signs they post in public places that say, "shirt and shoes required"? i went out to the car and found a 12-month size sweater i had pulled off of samantha after it had warmed up that morning. although riley barely touched her food, we somehow managed to get through lunch without much fuss. but as we walked out to load the girls in the car, we noticed a nail in my front right tire, which totally made up for it.

we waved goodbye to daddy and finally headed over to walmart since i wasn't sure they even sold mousetraps at the grocery store. any of you with young children realize how much of a hassle it is to make more than one stop, especially when they are tired and fussy. all of that unbuckling, unloading, toting, and reloading is a pain. in. the. b-u-t-t.

before i could get riley into the cart, we suffered a serious diaper malfunction. pee leaked down her pants and into her shoe. i stripped them off to change her diaper, and reached into the diaper bag only to find that there were no size 4 diapers. so here my child sits in a sweatshirt half her size, a diaper two sizes too small, no pants, and no socks or shoes. (at least it wasn't 50 degrees out like it had been the day before). fearful i might wind up on peopleofwalmart.com, i bit the bullet and walked into that store feeling like the biggest white trash mom. thankfully, riley was being good in the store. i can only imagine how it would have amplified the situation had she been screaming and flailing all over the buggy. i can already feel the judgmental looks from the childless adults who crossed our path. anyone with kids knows that it's impossible to "control" a tired and hungry toddler.

after i managed to drag myself through those huge automatic double doors, i darted to the back of the store and managed to find the mousetraps without too much rummaging. i decided to go ahead and get the groceries i needed so i wouldn't have to embarrass myself at another store make another stop, only to realize i had left my list in the car. obviously. so i ran through each aisle, grabbing whatever i could remember while wrestling a squirmy little girl who wanted to walk. do i need to remind you what she was (or was not) wearing? i would have hid her in the diaper bag if i thought she would fit. there was no way i was going to let her walk around walmart without shoes. or pants. or in a tiny diaper and baby sweatshirt. i can confirm that i will not be receiving the mother-of-the-year award. needless to say, i gave up and hurried home for naps, having only scratched about three things off of my grocery list...only to have a certain little someone skip her nap! sigh...don't worry, i waved goodbye to my sanity a long time ago.

because i hadn't completed my grocery-shopping mission, i decided on BLTs for dinner since we had all of the ingredients. or so i thought. technically, we did have all of the ingredients, but we both ended up eating the heals of two different loaves of bread since that's all we had left. so they were skimpy BLTs. but whatever. after a day like today, i'm thankful we even had anything to eat.

so the girls are in bed, the kitchen is clean, the mousetraps are set, and we are cuddled up on the couch not even five minutes into our movie, when SNAP! off goes a mousetrap. i'm so stoked about not having to clean up mouse poo anymore that i don't even think about the fact that this isn't a cartoon. i've never had to actually use a mousetrap before in real life, except for the little plastic cage one on the board game and to make a little car in high school science. please take into account that i am a big fat pushover for cute little critters. i wasn't thrilled about the concept of killing a mouse, but i was not prepared to clean up mouse poo for the rest of my life. i did what had to be done. and let me just say that it was quite disturbing. i'll probably have nightmares about that stupid little mouse tonight.

well, at least something went right today. i'd say it's a pretty sad day when the only thing that went right was killing something, but i'll take whatever i can get. so...all in all, i'd say it was a pretty good day.