Our day...because there's just no way to catch up!

I'm going to try & keep up but I know I can catch up the past few months so I'll start with today!

Last day of school before Christmas break, HALLELUJAH!!! I think I was more excited than the girls, I love having them home, not having to rush out the door, not having to tell them to hurry up & eat their breakfast 12x...we had snowman pancakes complete with bacon scarves to celebrate this morning. Dropped off big kids, hung out with Haley at her Christmas party, lunch, baked cookies for neighbors, was 1st in car line to pick up the girls...should have been a spectacular afternoon.

Got the girls, headed to a lab because Harper needed a blood draw. She's had some unexplained nasty bruises, a few nosebleeds & the ped wants to check for bleeding/clotting disorders. Harper has been worried about this all week because she's so squeamish, when we got there she was so nervous like I didn't know if I was going to get her in the door. The super nice tech puts the tourniquet on and Harper is freaking out, kept trying to rip it off so the lady told me she needed to sit on my lap so I could hold her down. Harper is freakishly strong, she's yelling and gets so upset that she throws up ALL over me, my coat, my pants, my boots, down in my boots, her shirt, her pants, her boots. Keep in mind she had just come from her school Christmas party where she probably ate everything in sight. During the freakout and vomiting, Lily had started sobbing because she's sensitive and gets upset when anyone she loves is hurt or upset.

This lab had nothing but those cheap paper napkins you use to dry your hands in the bathroom, not so good for cleaning up vomit. Of course we have to walk back out to the waiting room to a room full of staring strangers with vomit all over us. Harper of course is totally fine by now because they're done with the blood draw, Lily's still crying and we head home to clean up the disaster.

And in true Harper form, I get the giant pile of stuff to start rinsing it all and she yells from the shower, "Make sure you get all the throw up out of my jingle bell necklace" Yep, Harper that's totally my first priority.