Just One of Those Days

This morning my husband and I were awoken to our precious princess yelling at the top of her lungs, "M-O-M-M-Y!" Not really the wake-up call I had signed up for since I had just gotten back to sleep from giving baby Elijah his 5:30 AM feeding. So my not-a-morning person husband yells back at her, while still lying in bed, "No, Samantha Grace that's not how we ask to get up."

You see my husband and I made this rule when she first got her big girl bed that the only way she could get down from the bed was if she asked permission. Main reasoning for this rule was so she wouldn't come and wake us up in the middle of the night several times when she first got it. Well, this rule has been so ingrained into her, that now it has come back to haunt us on the Saturday mornings where we would love for her just to quietly get up and go upstairs to the playroom and play. Oh, well...

Fast track about 5 minutes, long enough for me to roll out of bed and stroll to her room and tell her she can get up. Then she comes into our room, crawls in bed and promptly says, "I'm hungry." So once again, I saunter out of bed with one eye open and one eye closed and fix, lovingly, a wonderful breakfast for her of waffles, syrup and yogurt with a side of Saturday morning cartoons (i.e. buying time for more sleep).

Thankfully this kept her occupied for another hour longer, long enough for me and my hubby to catch a few more zzz's and take a warm shower. (Showers are one of my favorites right now since it is the few minutes of peace and quiet with a locked door of course.) Upon finally getting myself and Samantha Grace dressed and presentable for the day along with getting beds stripped and in the laundry, I began, as I have every morning in the new year trying to stay to my daily routines, unloading the dish washer.

Here is where the fun began...I got the bottom rack unloaded, then as I am rolling in the rack I notice there is a bottom full of water in the dishwasher. Now you have to understand that just last night I read a wonderfully written article by Crystal Pain from Money Saving Mom on how we don't have to be Superwoman. I am trying really hard to not have this mind set, but being the type A personality that I am it is very difficult not to try to be a perfectionist.

So here I stood in the middle of my kitchen trying to explain to my husband exactly what I was seeing, all the while he calmly is watching his favorite DIY Saturday morning shows. I am freaking out thinking I am going to spend the rest of my day having to pay over time for a plumber and wash ALL my dishes by hand. (Not one of my favorite things to do.) Then I take a deep breath and pull everything out from under my sink and grab some towels from the garage just in case we have a reenactment of the story of Noah and the flood. Upon taking a second gland under the sink, I notice that the drain tubing is clogged with what appears to be....bacon grease. 'See I told you Honey that bacon is not a good food for you. This is what it is doing to your body,' were my thoughts as I stared and strategized about how Plumber Carri was going to take of this clogged line that was midway in the pipe stretching at least 2 1/2 feet long total.

Using my "I am not a plumber or engineer" brain, I took a metal coat hanger (surprised to find one in our house considering we don't use a dry cleaners and I strongly dislike them for what they do to your clothes), stretched it out and carefully shoved it down the tube trying to open the line back up. Then with abated breath I turned on the dish washer, with the tube in a bucket and Samantha Grace standing in front of the dishwasher to open it to turn it off once the bucket was filled...and success! I was so excited to see chunks of grease come flowing from this tube. I felt such a huge since of accomplishment and SAVINGS knowing that because of my metal hanger I just saved our family at least a $100 service call plus whatever it would have cost for the guy to clean the tubing.

So even though it is only almost lunch time, I feel I have completed a whole days worth of work. My kitchen is now in disarray, the sheets are done washing and have been for over 2 hours now, it looks like a tornado went through the living room, and I haven't checked one thing off the to-do list for today! So when my wonderful husband offered to take Samantha Grace to run some errands, I gladly accepted without hesitation. For this Mommy is hanging up her Superwoman cape for the day and getting this house back to normalcy.

Oh, and Daddy is getting some dishwasher cleaner while he is out!

It's just one of those days...

P.S. If you are looking for a great read of the new year, one of my favorite bloggers has a new book coming out on Tuesday called The Money Saving Mom's Budget. Highly recommend!