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

Yes, I stole my title from a children's book. I think it sums up my day quite well.

I must admit there were a few good moments, but overall I went from one bad event to another.

It began when I left the house at 9:30 AM. A bird flew into the front windshield of my van. Smack! Birds often swoop around and seem to be in danger of hitting the car window before pulling up to safety. This bird didn't pull up quickly enough. It hit so hard that I flinched, closed my eyes and shrieked. I'm glad I didn't have a wreck. I felt terrible about it. I almost cried.

I made it to the church building to purchase tickets for Hawaiian Falls tomorrow evening. But I was greeted with the horrible news that the tickets were sold out. There were more tickets coming later. But I was really bummed, as any mother of a 5, 3, and 1 year old would be, at the prospect of having to load everyone up for another trip to buy tickets. I really just wanted to be done with it.

So we headed to Office Max instead to buy the copier paper I need to print a newsletter this Friday. I had the church's tax-free and credit card. But Office Max was sold out of the heavy weight ledger paper I need. This was my only chance to purchase this, so I had to buy a lesser weight paper which will not look as nice. That's no-good.

We drove through Sonic on the way home. When I unloaded the food I realized that they had forgotten to put in the honey mustard dipping sauce for my popcorn chicken. I know that isn't the worst thing that could ever happen. But it continued to dampen my already darkening spirits.

Then something very bad happened. Nate started screaming and crying that his mouth hurt too bad to eat. He and Ava both had some fever yesterday but no other symptoms. Now suddenly their mouths were hurting. So I looked inside to find blisters. My regular pediatrician was not open today (of course) so we got an appointment with his back-up. The doctor had to do strep tests on both of them. I ended up paying $290 for him to tell me that they have the hand, foot, mouth virus that is going around and there is no treatment. We are now trapped inside the house for a week.

During dinner, I spilled spaghetti sauce on my shirt, so I grabbed the tank top I had just gotten from the dryer to change clothes. I found that it was covered in mottled blue stains. Something else in the wash must have bled. It's ruined. And I'm going to go ahead and make a guess that the spaghetti sauce isn't going to come out of the other shirt. My record with stains is deplorable.

We did have a nice rain this afternoon. I stayed inside because I felt certain I was in danger of being struck by lightening today.