The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day

I'm having a hard time remembering what we did for the past week. Somewhere in there we played with some neighbor kids. Friday the boys spent the day at my friend RiKelle's house while I helped my mom pack up some of the moving van. Friday night we all headed back to help finish up two of the three vans with Dave. I don't know how much help the boys and I were, but Dave helped with the furniture and big things. 

Saturday night Dustin came down with a bad cough. Deep in the chest, honking like a little pitiful duck cough. Sunday I kept him home from church while Logan and Dave went (Dave had to teach Sunday School and Elder's Quorum). When Dave and Logan left it was so pitiful! Dustin stood at the door crying "DAAAAAAD!!! and knocking. We had a slow, casual Sunday to try to help Dustin rest and heal.

He was still sick on Monday, and it was just a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for all of us! Dustin's cough only got worse, so bad that he would cough and cough until he threw up. The past two nights he woke up at 1 and two and didn't get back to sleep until 5 or 6. So I was totally exhausted. Dustin too. Logan was ornery from not being out of the house for a few days. We slowly survived the day (Dustin took two 15 minute naps, I didn't get any!). By 6 we were dieting for Dave to get home. But he had to work late. So we put in the third movie of the day and just waited for bedtime.

Just as I decided it was late enough to put the boys to bed (7:30) there was a knock on the door. The guys in the basement had a flooded toilet (which apparently had been flooded all day). Why they didn't tell me earlier in the day was beyond me. So I went downstairs, cleaned up the 1/2 inch water and ascertained the problem (between the bowl and tank), and headed to the store to buy what I thought I needed, and called Dave to get him to head home and my Dad to verify what I was buying. By the time I got home with the parts, Dave was home too. So I sent him down to do the install while I got the boys to sleep.

An hour and a half later, the boys were finally asleep, so I headed down to help finish up. Well, the bolts holding the toilet together were rusted on and stripped, so Dave hadn't been able to even take it apart! We were able to saw the bolts off, and finally get to the root of the problem by 10:15. BUT more than the 3 pieces I bought were broke, so we needed more parts to fix it. The hardware stores closed at 10, so we were out of luck for the day.

We cleaned everything up and got to bed by 11:30. We woke up at 6 the next day (with Dustin and Logan both getting up in the night me being up again from 1 to 5). We were able to get the toilet fixed and put back together by 7:30 (before the boys woke up) and Dave headed into work. Fortunately the boys were less ornery Tuesday (had to be a blessing, because they were sleep deprived to the max by now).

I had to go to Walmart to get some dishwasher soap (did I mention we had run out of that too?), so we all decided to get a treat while we were out. The boys picked out a pack of fancy socks. Logan got super heroes, and Dustin picked Star Wars. I picked nail polish, and I got Dave a channel locking pliers (the same one I have and he had been coveting during our plumbing fiasco). The boys wore all 6 pairs of sock throughout the day, and wouldn't stop dancing around for me to take a picture (and yes, we have spent the past 2 days in PJ's, but we did change into clean ones for bed).

Dave got home from work on time and let me sit and read while he played with the boys. They went to bed relatively well, and actually slept through the night and up to 8:30 this morning (another blessing!). So I'm feeling a lot better today. I don't do well without sleep. Now if we can just survive today, Dave has a half day off Thursday and all day off Friday for the 24th! So here's to a long, horrible beginning of the week!