A horrible, very bad no good....

Well you probably know the rest. I love that book. The one disappointing thing about it is that when I was younger I felt bad for him because his day was going so unjustly and now as a parent I find the kid a little whinny! Damn adulthood!

So today has all the makings of one of those days. You know the one where you roll out of bed, look at the clock and realize you overslept. See this problem would probably be eliminated if I would set an alarm, but I have the most reliable alarm clock ever, Lily. And if she fails usually the boys are up fighting. Not today, of course. The one day that my eyes are swollen with sleep and my internal clock doesn't wake me up, yep that is the day they pick to sit in silence watching cartoons. It is also the day that Lily slept till 8:15. Ethan has to leave for the bus at 8: 05. I got up at 7:50. Which actually wouldn't be to big of a problem, but as most mothers know when you wake up late you have willed the Gods to have your children fight you and move at the pace of the slowest snail. And boy did Ethan fight today. We seriously spent 7 minutes arguing about brushing his teeth. Something that happens everyday. The toothpaste was icky, he wanted to give me a hug, why does he have to brush his teeth today? Then it ended in a giant meltdown. The threat of keeping him home for the day combined with refusing to take him to soccer practice finally go through to him and he reluctantly brushed his teeth and barely even applying pressure. Fine! Whatever, if his teeth rot and fall out I ain't paying for it! Then he moved at super snail pace getting dressed. Stopping every ten seconds to play 20 questions. Good thing he is eating breakfast at school today or he'd have broken me.

Now in addition to being highly irritated I have a headache. You know the I rolled out of bed in a panic to early headache. Yep, today has all the makings of a bad day but I refuse to let it become one. All the snow has melted and the sun is shinning and Lily is the best of moods, Matt is being pretty good. Those are all the good things today so far and I refuse to let the bad cast a shadow. I will not be a whinny kid in a book who hate Lima beans and plain white sneakers!