I'll take Epic Fail for $1000, please, Alex.

Right....one of those days...you know...those days that start with you counting the hours until you get to go to bed again...

My first mistake, and I instantly regretted it, was making a deal with Jim that if he got up with Austin when he started screaming (5:28AM) that I would get up with him on Sunday.  GRRR...now I am on the hook for that.

Second mistake was agreeing to take the girls to soccer myself.  Lilli had the meltdown of all meltdowns when her coach nicely asked her to let a teammate take a turn at being goalie.  This, however, I will blame on my brother, Matthew.  He is a goalie.  A really good goalie, for St. Ambrose University. (click to see really cheesy picture of Matthew).  Anyway, Lilli wants to be like her Uncle Matt and therefor thinks that she is already the Star Goalie.  So, when it was Rebecca's turn, she looked at Coach Mike and pretty much told him with her eyes where to go.  Ugg....  I didn't want to step in because of the whole they are learning to respect their coach, but he finally looked at me.  Of course EVERY parent was now staring, and as I got closer she sat her little bottom down in the net and crossed her arms.  Really?  I tried calmly rationalizing with her that Rebecca was her friend and we should share (insert eat S*it and die look).  I finally lowered my voice, got really calm, and explained that it would be ubber embarrassing for her to get carried off the field in front of all her friends and that if she didn't believe me to sit there for a few more seconds and try it.  She stood up, took off the mesh goalie shirt, and stormed off the field.  She then pouted for the next 25 minutes.  She has great team spirit. And I let her sit there.  You know what, little missy, you have to share.  And you have to play well with others.  So there.

Third mistake of the day was making an appointment with a guy about getting new windows.  Our house has bad windows.  They are the original windows, and they only function for keeping large birds out of the house.  They are usually covered in winter-weather plastic because of the leaking factor, and they are not pretty.  We know they need to be replaced.  We didn't know it would take 2 hours of explanation followed by a quote of $14,000 to get them replaced.  I am angry and I would like those two hours back.  (Oh, but if we allow them to use us as an "advertising house", they will knock it down to $11,500.  Yes, they are that bad that the company thinks we would make a good before/after house).

Three strikes, and I am out, right?  A little Target shopping didn't even help this day, but a bowl of GrapeNuts helped a little.  Big sigh....off to bed since I will be up early tomorrow (refer to mistake #1).  Tomorrows fun...Easter pictures at JCP.  Fingers crossed!