Crazy Day!

Once again, it's been far too long since I've blogged. You probably don't believe that we still do not have our flooring completed!!??? Yep! God is in control and let me tell you that he's teaching me a whole new level of patience. The floor installers were supposed to start this past Monday officially and planned to have all laundry room, kitchen, living room, evan's room, hallways, and our room DONE by Friday. Well, due to some unforseen challenges that they experienced on a previous job, they were behind. Thus, they came yesterday, Friday, to start with the linoleum.
I had a dream the night before that they put down the wrong pattern and color. So, being a bit paranoid about my dream asked them to show me the flooring that was in there handy dandy van. I became a little worried as my sample seemed to have more of a green tint and the flooring I was looking at seemed to not have so much of a green tint, but seemed a little more slate/blueish. Now, granted I was looking at it in the bright sunlight on the driveway. I had the installers call the floor place and they sent someone out to look at it. Long, story short- it was the right floor. The problem being that the little sample you look at doesn't show the entire floor pattern and thus you can pull out a color, such as the green and think that the whole floor is going to look more green. But, in reality, when you put it down, it has a different look. Let me assure you that I LOVE this new flooring. It is beautiful. It compliments the GREEN paint on the kitchen walls (I painted before the floor went down).
Anna and Abby were both gone last night and this morning...so you'd think I had it easy! Only 4 kids to deal with right? NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!!! AVry and Emma about put me over the edge this morning. The installers showed up at 9 for pancakes (John's sweet idea) and Emma/Avry love to talk to them and talk and talk! I needed them to clean up their room (put away clothes they had pulled out of their dressers). I'm sure none of you have children that would do such a naughty thing, but I sure do! The battle became so bad at one point one of the nice young workers, whom I KNOW will never have children now due to his experience at my house, says to me "Are you going to be alright?" I thought I was going to burst into tears. I had tried all of my family options to help me with the kids and didn't see any possibilities and I even tried calling my dear hubby at work and said "I need you to come home right now!!" He said "Why?"
I said, "Because your wife is mentally ill today and needs you home!!" He laughed in a fun way. But I didn't find ANYTHING funny about my mental state! NOTHING!! NOTHING! Can you sense my anger???? Then, it gets better. Emma accidentally knocked over a can of paint that didn't have the lid sealed on properly and spilled it all over the living room concrete floor and stepped in it!!!! Yes...I had a half gallon of white paint with a child's foot covered in paint. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! The poor men who were here came to my aid to try to keep everyone else away from the mess and I took Emma to the shower. They were so kind to bring in a big fan and said my best option for clean up was to let it dry and then it should just scrape up in one big sheet. Thank you , God, that they were here. Because I would have tried to clean it up some other messy way. Now, the key was to keep all of the kids from stepping in it while it dried.
My washer and dryer are unhooked, my stove is unhooked, all the clean clothes are put away, so had no housework to do admidst this disaster of a house. Thus, I sat down on the couch and closed my eyes to pray. I pleaded to God for help! This is Memorial Day weekend and all of my friends have plans, all of family is busy or sick, and my hubby can not get off work...PLEASE God, HELP ME!!! Shortly after, the phone rang and my mom asked if I needed her to come get some kids. (Earlier, when I spoke to her, her back was out of whack and so I sure wasn't going to ask her to help me!). So, she's picking up Emma and Avry at 12 p.m. and then she also invited us over to dinner at her house later!! Yay!!! God is good all the time!!
Enough drama from my home. Today's goal is not to lose my mind :)
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About an hour later, Emma comes to me and says "Avry is in the paint!" I lost it!! I lost it!!! What???? Sure enough, she was being naughty and putting little toys in the puddle of paint and I found her in the bathroom with paint on her and water everywhere as she thought she could cover her tracks!! I whooped her little hiney and put her nose in the corner.