The kids don’t have school today. Public school is still in session, but for my kids it is a day between trimesters.
I had planned on taking them to the aquarium and possibly Pike Place Market this morning. Since Xavier is still taking afternoon naps, I thought a solid morning outing followed by a late return home for lunch would be a fun thing to do.
Then the snow started coming down.
I wasn’t afraid of driving in the snow myself as it was erring on the side of caution with other drivers on the slippery hills of Seattle. And with the weather being the way it is here, while the snow wasn’t sticking to the ground at my house, it could very well have been 20 blocks south of us.
At one point the snow was coming down sideways in front of the house and in the back of the house it was coming straight down. And so the morning got wasted putzing around the house, trying to referee the kids, work on a project for Laura’s classroom, cleaning the catbox, etc.
Towards the later part of the morning after the snow had finally stopped coming down I loaded up the kids and we went to Fred Meyer. This was a necessary excursion for some supplies that are needed both tonight and tomorrow. What should have taken 15 minutes wound up taking over an hour. The clerk didn’t ring in the coupons, and didn’t know how to retroactively credit me. He also didn’t ring up one item (that didn’t have a coupon) so that needed ringing up. Again. While my kids were getting rather squirrely. It wasn’t worth it for me to wait for a manager to come over and credit me a buck and a half.
And the clerk also held onto a couple of my reusable shopping bags because another store employee came running out after us carrying them.
I picked up a cheap frozen pizza for the kids for lunch at the store. I thought it would be a nice fun treat for the kids. While I was unloading groceries and on the phone, I had asked, then told, then yelled at my kids to be quiet. Finally I had to end the phone conversation because somebody was crying. And I could only tell he was crying because he was being marginally louder than the other kids.
Mad? Sure I was. I got so mad I wound up giving myself a headache. I tossed the pizza to the side, yelled at the kids, glared, fixed a different and completely unenjoyable lunch, and generally stormed around acting like a complete ass.
After everybody had lunch and I put Xavier down for nap I decided to go ahead and make the pizza for the kids as an afternoon snack. A sort of apology pizza. Then it stuck to the pizza tin. Approximately 8 square inches didn’t get stuck – it was a mess of such proportion that I should have taken a picture. Pizza was ruined.
What I had planned for a Phamily Foto Phriday post was gone. I was so mad the other blog post ideas simply couldn’t get written. And this is just me complaining, not even a real blog post. It’s just after 3 in the afternoon, and there’s still plenty of day ahead with other commitments to deal with.
And as I’m typing this up, I am realizing one of the things I absolutely needed to get for tonight, one of the two items I really needed, I forgot to pick up at Fred Meyer.
Oh, one of the cats *JUST* barfed about 2 feet behind me too.