My absolutely DISGUSTING weekend!

If you are reading this while eating, you may want to either stop reading, or stop eating, because you aren't going to be wanting to do both of this things together.....I had by far, the most disgusting weekend of my parenting life (possibly my whole life, but definitely my parenting life!)

It started on Friday afternoon when I was trying to get ready to go on my mom's night out with a bunch of my friends from the neighborhood. Melanie went in to use the bathroom, and I was playing with Meredith out in the kitchen, when all of a sudden I hear Melanie screaming, "MOMMY! HELP!" I go running to the bathroom, and a flood of poopy water is coming towards me. Apparently, there was a ton of toilet paper in the toilet, then Melanie used the bathroom, and when it wouldn't go down, she just kept flushing.....luckily, I caught it before it hit the carpet in the hallway, so at least I didn't have that mess to clean up. SO me, never really having to unclog a toilet, tried to plunge. Yeah. That didn't do much except put more water on the floor and on me. YUCK. So I call Eric to see what to do. He very sweetly says to just leave it and he will take care of it when he gets home, and as much as I would have loved to have done just that, our entire downstairs smelled like a sewer, (and at this point so did I!) so I wiped myself down as best I could, put the girls in the car and headed to Home Depot, where I am pretty sure I am now known as the crazy lady with the clogged toilet...I was in gym shorts and a tank top, (in February, mind you) running through Home Depot with 2 little girls screaming...4 different men who worked there came to help me find exactly what I needed, thank goodness. They were all looking at me like I was nuts, and at this point I even had the crazy lady eye twitch going on.....it was not a pretty sight. And also, all Meredith wanted to do was try out all the toilets they had out on the floor....the kid refuses to use it at home, but not at the store!! SO at this point, I had less than an hour before I was supposed to be going out, so I had to get home, snake the toilet not once, not twice, but FIVE times to get all the toilet paper unclogged, then get the nasty water all off of the floor, and then get myself cleaned up so that I would be presentable enough to go out to dinner!

So the next day, Saturday, was fine and uneventful......and then came Sunday. It was supposed to be nice out, so we decided to go up to Vogel State Park and take the girls hiking. Eric decided that instead of taking the straight, flat way, we would take the curvy mountainous roads which knocked 20 miles off of our trip. It would have been a great plan if Meredith hadn't gotten carsick literally 90 seconds before we got to Vogel. So she is throwing up in the back, and I am having to catch it with my hands so that it doesn't get all over all of the food and things we have below her feet. We got out at Vogel and got her cleaned up as best we could, put them back in the car and had to go find a Dollar General, where we had to buy her new clothes, a barf bucket, and a thing of febreze so that the whole car didn't stink!

I know that this is gross sharing all of this, but I know in a few years we will look back at all of this and laugh!!