Insanity people. That’s the only way I can describe the last few days.
Yesterday, I was still feeling icky and Jordan was miserable with his swimmer’s ear, but I had to get school supply shopping done. If we were leaving for Ohio tonight, I didn’t want to be frantically rushing around buying things when we got back.
I let Jordan stay home and sleep and I took the 3 youngest ones with me.
Target was great. Everyone was in a good mood. The only problem was that Target was out of half of the supplies that we needed. I checked out, grabbing water bottles for the kids to drink because it was 100 degrees here at 6 PM yesterday. I got myself the “old” Pepsi. It tasted so good, made with real sugar. Throwback Pepsi.
Off to Wal-Mart we went. I guess I pushed my luck. Christiano and Alyce were monsters. In the cart, out of the cart, push the cart, Nano wanted carried, in the cart, out of the cart, wonder off to try to touch everything in his reach, back in the cart, out of the cart, scream. Lord have mercy on my soul.
I complain about this every year. Will someone please tell me why schools do not supply dry erase markers for the teachers? I mean seriously. 25 kids in a class, each brings 4, that’s 100 dry erase markers. Why is it MY job to supply dry erase markers? Why is it the teacher’s job to supply dry erase markers if I don’t bring them? Why doesn’t the district supply dry erase markers? They are the ones who installed the white boards, right? I don’t remember my mom supplying our teachers with chalk. There was a supply cabinet in the hallway. Out of chalk? The teacher would go get some more.
Zip lock baggies in 4 different sizes between my 2 kids. Disinfectant wipes, hand sanitizing gel, the list goes on and on. I don’t even use hand sanitizing gel at home. (Because misuse and overuse are causing antibiotic resistant bacteria – they say.) I’ll use it when we go to Wal-Mart after touching the bathroom doors, let’s face it, they are disgusting, but at home, we wash our hands. I don’t like my kids using it all day long in lieu of washing their hands.
I was frustrated because Kat needed so many bottom pocket folders in ONLY these colors with NO PRONGS. Then she needed so many in so many different colors with prongs.
Sorry dudes, they were out of everything but yellow and orange with no prongs. Kat’s bottom pocket folders have prongs.
And I could not for the life of me find a large pink eraser.
A pink eraser.
How hard could it be to find one?
Impossible at the beginning of August it turns out.
I finally said screw the eraser, I’m done.
I spent $200 on school supplies, book bags, lunch bags, 2 outfits for the girls that were $17 each, one shirt on clearance for Jordan that was $5, and 2 pairs of shorts on clearance for Nano that were $1. (Yep, they were $1! I almost bought the whole pile. I controlled myself.) Pato can do the rest of the school clothes shopping and get them shoes too.
By the time we got in the car, Christiano was D-O-N-E. Done. So was mom for that matter. I handed him his water and he proceeded to dump the whole thing down the front of him, might I had it was on purpose. Then he was screaming because he was wet. I’d rather be wet and cooled off from the 20 oz water than sweltering from the heat.
I decided to swing through Culvers on the way home because there was no way I was turning on the oven and there was no way I was standing outside to cook on the grill.
Came home, ate supper, sat around feeling sorry for myself after the day from Hades.
Then Pato got home. I went and laid down, heading off to dreamland quickly. He came in and woke me up and said, the lightening just struck, it was huge! Then something went pop! Now the alarms are going off in the building. Crap. I called 911, just in case they couldn’t hear the alarms over there. (I’m sure they could.) Pato got Nano dressed, I got the girls up, Jordan was already up, miserable, not able to sleep because his ear hurt so bad. I ran around getting the diapers, my external hard drive, Kat’s computer, various important things. Asked Pato about the birds. He said if it was a real fire, he’d go in through the sliding glass door and get them.
So then we stood out in the rain waiting for the fire department to get here and tell us all was fine.
I guess we had 5 other buildings with alarms going off at the same time.
Lightening was striking everywhere.
Quite the lightshow I will say.
When I had called 911, lightening struck again, and I felt it crackle through my phone. I jumped, and the 911 operator actually asked me if I was ok.
Yes, just freaked out.
Finally got all the kids back to bed and went to sleep, only to wake up with a huge earache myself this morning. Called my doctor, no appointments and a 2 hour wait in the walk-in. No thank you. I’ll suffer. I can actually feel the fluid draining from my ear. As Shrek says, better in than out I always say. I know, he was talking about something entirely different, but it works here too.
I am not going to Ohio tonight. I don’t think Pato is either, since he is feeling like I was feeling last Wed and Thurs. Oh honey, that’s just the start of it.
Jordan is sleeping on the couch still. I think he’s feeling a little better. I haven’t had to give him a hydrocodone this morning. He said it still hurts, but he hasn’t asked for relief yet.
I am also waiting on an update from V-Tech on Alyce’s Mobi-Go. Last night she wanted to take her MobiGo because she didn’t want it lost in a fire. She grabbed it, then dropped it. It fell a whole foot or so to the carpet. Now, if something is made for 3 to 8 year olds, should it survive a foot fall to a soft surface? One would think. It’s not like we dropped it off the Empire State Building to see if it would bounce. We turned it on, the screen is shattered. No picture what so ever. Just white and black lines looking like shattered glass. I called VTech this morning. The helpful customer service lady told me that they would only give me a discount towards my next purchase because dropping isn’t covered in the warranty. I said, why? She said it just wasn’t. I said, so VTech expects parents to spend $59.99 on the MobiGo that is intended to be used by 3 year olds. THREE year olds (Not the most graceful of God’s creatures). It is not able to survive a very short fall to a soft surface and it won’t be fixed or replaced? She said yes. I had already told her that I had gotten this as a review product from VTech and that I would be sure to update my review to let you all know VTech’s position on this. I am not going to tell you to go buy this awesome toy for $60 (which it is awesome, until it breaks) whose screen will shatter if dropped just right, and here I sit knowing that VTech won’t fix it. Well, since I received the product directly from VTech, she will escalate the matter to management. That’s still pretty cruddy. You’ll do something about it because I am a blogger who received this to review? What about the people who this happens to who don’t blog. They just get a discount on their next VTech purchase while their kid is horribly disappointed and beating them self up because they accidently dropped their favorite toy on the carpet during a very stressful moment where she was trying to save her favorite toy from burning up in a fire?
Not happy. I’ll update you if they fix it for her. They need to review that policy. It’s not like I as an adult dropped my laptop, or better yet, my Kindle, built for adults, on the ground. (Which I have done, dropped it on my bed, the screen did the EXACT same thing Alyce’s MobiGo did. Know what Amazon did? Replaced it. No lecture from customer service about dropping my Kindle on the mattress.) This is a child, who dropped a toy built for a child. Our Leapsters have taken way more abuse than this and survived with nothing but a few scratches. We have 3 Leapsters, all various years old, all work like the day we opened the box, all have been played with by a certain 17 month old here, who is so much harder on toys than Alyce, screens work perfectly. I am dissapointed in VTech right now and their customer service lady.
On that note, I’m going to see if I can talk Nano into a nap. Maybe all the fluid will magically drain from my ear?
Have a great day!
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