Moments

At 5:00pm I made the quick decision to try and quickly rearrange the furniture in Natanya's room to make room for the crib. I was hoping I could do it fast because Nat would start getting hungry for dinner soon. Unfortunately, what I thought would take 15 minutes was going over 45. So I grabbed the girls and headed downstairs to throw some noodles in a pot. Now I was getting close to Mikayla's next feeding time and rushing, which is probably why I dropped a glass bottle of olive oil all over the kitchen floor. Just then, I heard Natanya say, "mommy wet," but I figured a peepee accident could wait 'til I cleaned up this crazy oily mess. However, that oily mess spread all over the place because my instinct to get the glass off the floor fast with a broom neglected the fact that a broom would work against me with the oily issue. Just then, Mikayla started crying in wonder where her milk was. I ran upstairs to get Nat new bottoms, put Kay in the swing with a binky (she was not amused), but then the water in the pot was boiling over. Whatever sweat I had worked up from moving furniture upstairs was just the beginning of the sweaty, oily, and shaking (I get low blood sugar and shake sometimes when I need to eat) mess I was now. I took care of the pot, put the binky back in Kay's mouth, asked Natanya to come get her new clothes on...but she slipped. She didn't have an accident, she said "wet" because she had poured water all over the living room floor. I ran over to comfort her, cleaned up the water, changed her, held her why I poured some sauce over the noodles, sat her in her highchair with a fork, meanwhile getting oil all over my flip flops and dragging it back and forth between rooms. I put the binky back in Kay's mouth again and did the fastest unrolling of paper towels in history. I got most of the oil up, ran back to Mikayla to feed her, and sat there catching my breath for 15 minutes. I went back to finish cleaning up all the oil then heated up some noodles for myself.

As I ate my dinner I said, "wow God," then I smiled and thanked God for the 20 minutes I had earlier to sit in the sun on the hammock.