Super Mom??

Mmmmm....not so much!

So this morning was a crazy one.

Makily has been sick for over a week now and is JUST NOW able to eat again. She was retching at one ounce and running fevers on and off. Yesterday I finally got her back up to full feeds. So today was her first day back to school since she got sick.

We spent a few days over the weekend in Orlando because Makily had a sleep study. I still hadnt totally unpacked and put everything in it's place yet.

HUGE MISTAKE.

This morning I get up and start getting her ready for school. Nothing was where it should be and some stuff was still in suitcases so I am running around like a mad woman looking for her right shoe or her brush. She had her bath last night so I just had to dress her and do her hair. She screamed like a MANIAC the entire time I did her hair.

I get her backpack re-packed with school stuff only. I go to pack her feeding pump and realize I have no opened case of formula in the house. So I have to find some scissors, open the HUGE box of formula to get the smaller box, then rip that open grab two cans of formula. I go put her in the car along with all her stuff when I realize....her Kidcart is in the house. Allen had taken it out when he packed the van.

ACK!

So I go get the Kidcart, take it apart put it in the van. I get in the van and realize while I have the pump and formula, I had not packed, set, or loaded it in it's case. So I start the car, pour the formula into the pump bag. I begin driving to the school with the window down while priming her feeding pump at the same time. As I am priming her pump while driving I think to myself

"Wow I am SUPER MAMMA, here I am priming a feeding pump while driving". I was so impressed with myself I ACTUALLY was thinking of buying myself a "Super Mom" shirt.

My head starts to swell as I revel in what an efficient multi-tasker I am....when suddenly I see something out of the corner of my eye. It's something black and is FLYING through the air away from the van.

I look in the rearview and realize in a panic what it was.

It was "My life".

Those that know me, know what my life is. My friend Justin sometimes mistakenly calls it my brain (which actually is an appropriate name for it). It's a "personal planner" with EVERYTHING in it. My credit cards, money, checks, appointment cards, phone numbers, Makily's id, my license. (see why I call it my life?) In my rush to leave the house I had put it on the hood of the van and forgot to get it off.

As I see it flying through the air I notice something else seperate and fly away from it.

My cell phone.
(my life has that little cell phone pocket in the front).

In a panic I pull over, turn around and go back to the area where I saw "my life" land. I am feverishly searching when low and behold there it was. THANK GOD I had zipped it closed so it was all intact. I thought for sure my cell phone was a lost cause but I looked a bit more and found it about 10 feet away.....flipped open and dead. I put it on the charger when I got in the car and SURE ENOUGH THE SUCKER WORKED!

So Makily was about 10 minutes late to school today. When they asked me why she was late to this morning for her tardy slip I just said "Ugh, the alarm didnt go off".

Super Mom, I am not.