Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

So its been sort of a rough week. I started the week poorly because at the last minute we got to go to muscatine and Coralville last weekend and when we had to come back home on Sunday I realized that I had nothing fun to do this week and that the highlight of my week would probably be watching the new episode of Top Model on the new CW. (Not that it isn’t a fun show, but hardly worthy of being my week’s highlight!) So, yeah, I had a bad attitude coming into it. I’ve muttled through ok so far (is it muttled or muddled? well whatever, I’m alive and so is my family). Josh has been pretty helpful which I’m sure has made a huge difference. Monday, I had an appointment with the eye doctor. It started at 140 and I was slightly nervous about getting home before 3 to get the kids (not to mention NOT excited about trying to corral Cameron and Elena while I was being examined!) so Josh arranged his schedule to come home and keep the younger kids while I was gone. Little did either one of us know that I would be gone until 4:30! Yeah! Tuesday was appointment free, but I didn’t think so. I scurried to send notes to the teachers and took Jacob and Elise out of school to go to their dentist appointments only to find out when we got there that they had told me the wrong day (or I had written it down wrong in my calendar) and their appointments were in fact for the next day! ‚ UGH!!! And as ‚ soon as Josh got home he had to go for the Cub Scout pack meeting. He said he’d take the older kids but he had to take the van because his car was fully loaded (with construction type crap that he was taking to Galesburg the next day) and it was the kids’ school’s fundraiser night at Wendy’s so we all went and I was going to drop Josh and the kids off and take Elena to run some errands. Right. As soon as I got to the store she started screaming at me. She quieted for a little while when I picked her up out of the cart and carried her, but even that did not appease her for long. So I went to the pack meeting also. Wednesday I took the kids to their real dentist appointments which finished just when lunchtime at school was over so I had to take them out to eat something before returning them to school. And guess what…Elena is teething…more! She has 3 out of 4 of her first molars and the fourth and canines are about to push through. Yeah, don’t stick your finger in her mouth. When we got home I took part in my first 3-way call since probably 9th grade! It was fun. But things were outta control when the older kids came home from school. So. I sat down last night and made responsibility charts for each child (minus Elena for now.) ‚ So hopefully today things will start to get better. Already this morning the children have been following their charts. And now I have to go get Jacob out of school again for his eye appointment and I have nothing fun planned for tonight–Jacob has soccer practice, and tomorrow I take Jacob out of school AGAIN for his dermatologist appointment! At least I know they all have insurance coverage now. (Oh yeah, I didn’t get that figured out until I was on the way to the Dentist the first time!)