Pity Party

          

Put on your festive hat and pull out the confetti, ’cause we’re havin’ a pity party up in here!  Oh my WORD, Internets, I am needing some love.  My week STUNK!  LITERALLY!!!!!!

It all started with a fateful call to my SIL over a week ago, “Yeah, even though there is a lot of drama in my extended family right now… we are doing pretty good in my house.  I am on top of everything, and able to handle stress better than I used to.”  JINX!

I am happy to report that for the past 2 months Percy had been going through a pretty easygoing period.  I had just recently started to relax out of my manic “survival mode”… you know, the one where I am the Energizer Bunny & keep going going going.  But in that mode I got SO MUCH DONE!!!!  Problem is there is no middle ground for me, so after that I kind of stalled.  BIG mistake.  I got behind on housework and paperwork last week.  This has really come back to haunt me this week.

Things started getting complicated last Saturday when Percy turned back into his alter-ego, Bizzarro Percy  (I don’t mean that disrespectfully.  I am alluding to comic books… Superman and his alter-ego Bizzarro Superman).  At Music Class, which he LOVES, he had his worst episode EVER and it made me so sad & scared.  It hasn’t gotten much better from there.  He had been like this for about 2 months in Oct/Nov (which prompted me to go on anti-depressants), and then had those 2 good months.  So I guess I am in for 2 rough months again.  He is back to EXCESSIVE tantruming, hitting, biting, rigidity, destructiveness.  It in itself is exhausting.  

And of course Thomas was sick last Sunday, and then Thursday BOTH kids got sick.  Not only is that time-consuming and exhausting and you worry for your kids but it also ruins social plans.  And you know what, when you have kids with special needs you really NEED social activities.  No church last week OR this week, we had to cancel fun plans for last night AND tonight, AND it is 60 degrees outside and sunny and I am stuck inside with poop and puke!  POUT!!!!!!!

YES, that’s right, the vomit monster is back AGAIN!  Oh how I wish it was a 24-hour thing, but NO, it’s Rotavirus.  First Percy… in the church hall, then the church bathroom, then the car, then the bathtub, then the bed.  Oh, by the way, when Percy threw up in the church bathroom I called for help and the male youth minister came in to assist.  You should have seen the funny looks he got when he came out.  That is how rumors get started .  Seriously though, he is an awesome man, a real servant.  And then Percy threw up in the car on the way to the Pharmacy and I couldn’t do anything about it.  I rolled down the window to let the Pharmacist (who is my Buddy) see a dripping Percy, and he said, “Niiiiice!”

And now the Monster has moved on to dear Thomas.  At 1am this morning… and 1:30am… and 2am… and 4am.  Thank goodness for hardwood floors and my Shark Steam Mop.  Oh, and plastic gloves.  I had wanted to mop Thomas’s floor, but not at 2am!  Go, go Gadget Steam Mop!  To make things worse Percy has now graduated to the leaky and STINKY diarrhea while Thomas is puking so I have MASS QUANTITIES of laundry.  I hate messes. I am a germophobe.  I don’t think I will ever feel clean again. 

So anyway, the point is, I was already feeling sorry for myself  because my youngest kept trying to bite me and my house was a mess and I felt overwhelmed and my Christmas tree was still up and now I have EVEN MORE to deal with.  Such is life.  LOL, I guess I should be cleaning instead of blogging, huh?  But this is making me feel better.  But I am going to log off now and keep on dealing with my life and its drama.  Like Dory in Finding Nemo, I will “just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What can we do? We swim, swim…”