Mom, Keep the Kitchen Clean Please

There was one day last week where I was really having a bad day, I was exhausted, had a migraine and just really felt like crap. Since I get the migraines often, my kids quickly pick up on the fact that mom is hurting and they usually just let me be and do their best to not fight with each other (that typically doesn’t happen but I know they do try).

I had left the house to go grocery shopping and they were sitting on the couch watching one of the ridiculous shows they like, Finding Bigfoot! I just shook my head and went out the door.

About an hour later I called the house to ask them something and when my son answered he was out of breath. When I asked what he was doing he just said, “we’re cleaning.” Wow, that’s something that is rarely said in my house so I didn’t want to jinx it and just left it at that.

When I arrived home a little while later, I walked in the house to find furniture rearranged, floors vacuumed and my kitchen, unrecognizable. They had cleaned up everything on the counters and found a place to put away each and every little thing. Needless to say, I think I went into shock!

They quickly took the bags of groceries and put everything away. They then pointed to the counters and said, “Mom, you see how clean the counters are? Now YOU best keep them that way!”

I thought to myself, I’ve never seen my kitchen so clean, it’s usually all their crap that is spread out all over the counters, and they have the nerve to yell at me! I smiled and gave them all a hug.

The counters stayed clean for about 2 whole days and then once again there were chemistry and algebra books, pencils, homework and old lunchbags back on them. It was great while it lasted!

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Can I Get on Retainer, Please?

Aug 8, 2013 by Alyssa

We have a local walk-in Doctor’s Office a few miles away that, thank goodness, is open 7 days a week and until 8 pm.  Sometimes there’s a bit of a wait but usually we can get out of there within 30-40 minutes.  Having 4 crazy kids, I do frequent the place a lot, but not usually as often as I did the last 10 days.  It’s pretty bad when the staff knows you by name and the x-ray technician asks, “weren’t you just here last night?”

It all started with my daughter needing a sports physical, then a strep throat visit, 2 more sports physicals, a hip injury, another sports physical, a sprained wrist  and then lastly, another broken bone.

Football practice hadn’t even been going on for a week when my son comes home and asks, “should my thumb be this purple?”  This was the same kid that I told to suck it up and get back in the baseball game after he had just gotten nailed with a line drive and broken his hand (I really thought he was fine).  Rather than get another mother of the year award for blowing off an injury, it was evident from the looks of his thumb, it was broken.  Although he insisted he was fine, I took him for an x-ray based on my gut.

the broken thumb

Sure enough, his thumb was broken at the growth plate, need to see an orthopedic.

I don’t know about you all, but all this “growth plate” stuff is a bit questionable in my mind.  Of the last 5 broken bones my kids have had, 4 of them required an additional visit to the orthopedic due to growth plate concerns.  And in the end, there was NO growth plate issue at all.  Heck, me and my friends broke a ton of bones when we grew up and there was never a growth plate issue. We just went off to the hospital, got a quick cast and then followed up 4 weeks later to get the cast cut off.  I hate to say this, but I really think it’s all a crock, just an opportunity for another office visit which equates to more $$$$$.

Anyway, sorry I went off on a little tangent but as I left the office, one of the staff said, “See ya Mrs. B, hopefully we won’t see you again tomorrow. Oh and don’t worry, we’ll just add this visit to the bill!  Never a dull moment in my household.

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