Intolerable Tuesday....

I swear today can go down in history as the longest day e-ver. Shawn has been holed up in a hotel in downtown Kansas City since Friday. He takes boards on Sunday. 1 week of uninterrupted study time for him. A long week with the kids for me. I'm so ready for this test to be over. So is Shawn. And so are the kids. This afternoon we went swimming. We only left because a fight broke out due to hunger. I think hunger was the underlying issue. Could've just been that my kids really like to irritate each other. I opted for Burger King because of the play place. And because my fridge is sparse. Still haven't done the shopping I was supposed to do when we got home from vacation. Dinner was fine. No major issues. Except Jackson and Landon can't keep their hands off of Presley. And sometimes they are a little rough. Irritating. I decided we better go to Walmart while we were already out so we could put some food in the fridge and quit wasting our money on eating out. We had only been in the store less than 5 minutes when they called a Code Adam. A small child was lost. The mother appeared relatively calm. But I could see that inside she was panicked. And about to lose it if her child wasn't found. They found the child on the opposite end of the store where he was lost. And he was fine. Unfortunately this happened to be my child. Landon. And I was the mother whom everyone gawked at as they passed. I'm sure they saw all my other kids and thought "no wonder she lost one. She has plenty." I'm glad he was found. I wish I could say that it made me grateful that they were all there with me tugging the cart, begging for things like donuts, and constantly irritating each other. But it didn't. Not really. I still wished I'd left them all at home and ventured out late at night when nobody could bother me. It's finally close to bedtime. Presley is down. And now Jack and Landon are in bed because I told them if one more fight broke out the two involved would go straight to bed. Is it sad that I'm glad I was able to actually act out my threat? Ugh. I can't believe it's only been 14 hours since I woke up this morning. Feels more like an eternity has passed. I'm hoping tomorrow doesn't drag out like today. I'm hoping sleep brings me sweet relief.