The wacky world of the Klauer Klan!

What a day.. Yesterday was awful. With Nick in the Military we try to prep the kids for these longer stints of their dad being gone. Unfortunately sometimes ok a lot of the times military puts a kink in the system of prepping the kids. When Nick left on Friday and stated I will see you in a couple of day that daddy is going away for drill. At the time this was correct Nick was gonna come home on Sunday night and then leave again monday night which we would have said to Isaac again that Daddy would be gone only longer this time. Well Isaac is not understanding the change in plans and as the week has gone on he is acting out his frustration. Wednesday he clocked his friend with a block though it was said by both kids it was an accident it still seemed out of place for me. The Yesterday the Craziness hit the fan. Starting off with a trip to the Grocery store for A LOT of stuff. I had arranged sitting for them but my helpers children were sick so I decided more out of necessity that I was gonna try this shopping trip anyways because we needed the ingredients for this week. What a crazy mistake after 2 hours and countless of not listening and running away from the cart and almost into the parking lot in front of a car on the way out the door that trip was over. I ran home and dropped off the groceries. Due to the overly long trip at the grocery store I was running behind for getting the kids over to Annette's. I just put the cold stuff away and then ran and picked up lunch and headed down to Oregon. We had scheduled a play date with Annette's son Ryan who is Autistic. He is a sweet lovable 7 year old and I have been told that we are one of the few families Annette knows that has Quote regular kids endQuote. I say this because we do not have a child afflicted with autism. Where other families she knows have children who do and do not have children afflicted with autism together so they call the non autistic children "SIBS". This endearing term is to refer to Children who are more accommodating and don't really put fights up becuase they have been raised knowing that their brothers and sisters need a little more patience and attention to help with therapy. So our children being the crazy full of energy little boys they are! Are helping with Ryan's therapy by exposing him to normal active children who will steal away a toy or play a little rougher because they are not conditioned to adjust behavior accordingly. So the play date went good. We did run out of diapers and chonies and pants because Isaac is also not pottying when he needs to and peeing in his pants again I think this is a control issue since he can't control that his dad is gone so he is doing it for extra extra extra attention even though it is negative attention. So with the diapers and the not listening and the not wanting to leave when it was time to go I was spun even tighter. We got home and Isaac and Noah went out to play while I fed Adam. Well not to far into playing I guess our neighbors let their daughter over to play with the boys in the yard, which I didn't know until she was on her way home from being hit by Isaac. So again Tighter and tighter I am being spun.. So with that Isaac was in for the night.

So in come the boys.. I made dinner which Isaac proceeded to dump his milk all over the floor.. This is the second cup that day on the floor and the 4th in the past 2 days. (nerves even more frazzled) Ok so I got him to clean it up and then everyone into the tub to get dirt and milk off everyone now. First Tubbie for Adam then I put the 2 bigger boys in while I was getting Adam cleaned and dressed on the bathroom floor. Isaac and Noah proceeded to DUMP FULL CUPs of water out the tub.. I told Isaac and Noah no but Isaac wanted to continue on. WHAT IS GOING ON!! AAHHHHHH (Ok at breaking point for nerves) Everyone out of the tub and got everyone dressed for bed and put Isaac to bed at 6pm.. Well in his room atleast he proceeded than to yell and be angry for the next 2.5 hours till it was time to put Noah to bed. I tired everything to calm him down. Talk to him... Call Nick frantically and see if he could talk to him... NOTHING. Finally everyone was in bed and asleep by 9pm and with that I went downstairs to cry. This day was horrible.. Isaac pushed every button I had, I changed over 30 diapers between Noah and Adam who both had terrible bowel issues. Poor Noah's butt is eaten to pieces from his poop.. I was changing him to the point of trying to get it off as soon as it was on hoping to hold off the pain but nope. And then we add Adam who didn't want to be put down because he had a fever and wasn't feeling well all day. I am one person who all 3 children needed me at the exact same time ALL DAY LONG! And their was no relief no where to go I tried calling Nick which led to his and my feelings hurt because there was really nothing to do at that time I felt like my mommy switch was turned off and anything I said was wrong anything I did was wrong everything was wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG! It is heart breaking to run out of options and be exhausted to the point that you run out of being exhausted. I didn't even know that was possible.. Trust me it is. So everyone I was short to yesterday which is pretty much my husband and kids I am sorry.

Today I pray for more patience and a brighter day..