Shut the Door

       What a day. Not a great day. Justin's still coughing, now Ryan is barking and Andy has a little cough. Nothing bad, but I just hate it when they don't feel good. I wasn't in the greatest mood all day and made an absent minded mistake when I went to our girls night tonight. I just got out of the car, turned off the lights, locked it  and walked down the street to Turtle's to eat. I didn't have a clue that anything was up until Jake called me asking why the police called him to ask if he knew that the car was parked in front of Domino's for the past hour with the engine running and no one in it. I don't know what he said to them, but I know I feel like a fool. And now I am telling all of you about it??Why am I doing that?? I have no idea. I am glad that the car WON"T actaully lock if the keys are in the ignition or I would have been really upset. Can I blame it on the fact that the two girls I was with are pregnant and I suffered from sympathy pregnant brain for them?? (didn't think that would be a good enough excuse) Thankfully- it was no big deal, but it could have been! All because I had a bad day. I have never done anything like that before. I needed this night out for sure!
        Even through my bad mood today, the kids still had me laughing. Ryan was wobbling down the stairs to the basement, and since the steps aren't carpeted I like to watch him until he gets to the bottom so I know he got down them ok. (Like I wouldn't hear it if he got got down any way other than safely, right?). But he turned around half way down the steps and looked at me and said "Shut the Door". I just stared for a second trying to figure out if he could have possibly just told me to shut the door, so I said "What?" And he repeated it! It was one of those times where I couldn't hold back my smile and I giggled at him. Just to double check I asked him if he just told me to shut the door and he looks up at me and looks into my eyes and says "mmmmmhmmmm". Ok...so I shut the door :).
        Earlier I made Justin some dotted letters to trace on some handwriting paper. Then I bribed him with chocolate to trace the letters and told him if he practiced enough, soon he wouldn't even need the dots to trace- he would just KNOW how to write the letters. To this very second, I am trying to figure out if his response was a good one, or if he was yelling at me like the tone in his voice suggested... "Mommy, YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST THINGS FOR ME TO DO. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS FOR ME." He sounded pissed as heck at me but he was saying the sweetest thing...I am so confused. All I could say was...ummm thank you?  Then he hugs me and says "Mommy, you are the bestest for me!" I wonder what I did to get that treatment!
      Andy was home today for the first official day of spring break. It was so nice to have my 3 boys with me today... (In between the arguments and sassing back...but that is ok) I woke up this morning to him laying in bed next to me watching cartoons nuzzling his head into my cheek. How sweet is that??? I LOVE that. He said he did that to make me happy :) So stinking cute.
      Hmmm....didn't I say I was having a bad day?? After writing this, I am not so sure my day was really that bad. I was in a grumpy mood- but how could I be grumpy when my day is full of this???