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Here we are - it is Saturday! I never thought I would make it. This week my husband's work sent him across the country for 6 days. (Boooooo! hisssssss!) And why is it that fate waits for you to be in an already-state-of-distress when it decides to dump the motherload of crap in your lap? Huh? Here's how my week has gone:

MONDAY:

• Get a call first thing in the morning that my kids' 2nd cousin barfed at school and needs to be picked up and watched for the rest of the day. I decline due to rest of the day's activities.
• Visiting Teaching appointment
• Post Office to mail 2 Etsy orders
• Full trip to the grocery store
• Racing home in time to watch my 2 nephews, which I regularly do 2 days a week
• Find out nephews cancelled
• Call cousin back to offer to watch the sicky
• Have sick kid at my house until dinnertime
• Right after dinner, discover mold growing along the base of my cabinets around the dishwasher
• Commence freaking out

TUESDAY:

• Dad comes over to take a peek at dishwasher, spends most of the day sprawled on my kitchen floor but he FIXED IT!!!
• Get another call that 2nd cousin is well and back at school, but still needs someone to watch him AFTER school.
• Go pick him up on the other side of the city, bring him home to stay until dinnertime again.
• Throw some frozen chicken nuggets at the kids and dash to change clothes.
• Mother-in-law arrives to babysit
• Leadership meeting at the church - 7 pm
• Arrive late to Book Club after meeting
• Hurry home to relieve Grandma from babysitting

WEDNESDAY:

• Call doctor's office to hassle with some insurance dispute over medication choice
• Call insurance to find out about coverage for mold issue
• Call repair company #1 for free estimate
• My sister Kim comes over to make some crafts together
• At lunchtime, 2 nephews arrive to be babysat
• Wait all afternoon for repair company #1 to never show up
• After bedtime, my Dad arrives to stay with my sleeping children
• 2 more Visiting Teaching appointments (yes, that late)
• Arrive home at 10:30 to relieve Dad

THURSDAY:

• Schedule family photos for next month
• Wait around all morning for repair company #1 to stand me up AGAIN
• Call repair company #2
• Take 3 kids to parent-teacher conferences
• Repair co. #2 says WHOA, big problem
• I officially file an insurance claim
• Take my kids to get Taco Bell and free Krispy Kremes for their report cards
• We eat it all at my parent's house, because I'm tired
• Spend 2 hours with Mitchell and his math homework and get him to bed WAY too late
• Sew 2 swords

FRIDAY:

• Repair company #1 calls back and wants to schedule 3rd appt. I tell them to bite me.
• Another trip to post office to mail the newest swords
• Swing around to doctor's office to pick up prescription
• Do all the week's laundry
• Spend entire afternoon on phone with insurance/contractor/husband to work out what in the heck we are going to do with this *&@#!$%!&!@ kitchen
• Get in argument with husband over what to do with kitchen
• Cry to MIL about the whole shebang
• Stay up till 1:30 am sewing birthday gift for my nephew

SATURDAY:

• 7 am (oh yes, 7 am on a Saturday) contractor shows up to take out moldy wood
• Breakfast? - my mega pain pill for nasty headache
• My entire kitchen is sealed up in plastic sheeting
• My sink and dishwasher are sitting on the back patio
• My moldy cupboards are on the side yard
• My countertops are stacked in the garage
• Did some dishes in the bathroom sink
• Cooper and I took a NAP!
• Went to pharmacy to fill prescription
• Went to 2nd pharmacy because the first didn't have it
• Took the kids out to dinner because what can I cook? I have no access to dishes or appliances
• Give all 3 boys haircuts
• Finish sewing the birthday gift
• 8:30 pm Jason returns from the airport and we all collapse into his arms

I sure hope the heavens begin to smile upon me in the next few days, because I sure would like to catch a break!!!