Stroke waiting to happen!

I'll get to the stroke waiting to happen, but first.... Let me say what a wonderful Mother's Day weekend it was!! The weather was fabulous! Rock was going to go buy tomato plants for our garden and he was going to take Owen, as usual. Which leads to Erik crying because he wants to go, too. Lo and behold, Rock took 'em both!! So I got lots accomplished before they got back. No fighting the kids off the vacuum! No screaming over toppled stacks of folded laundry! No plucking cars and animal/people figures from the dishwasher! It rocked! My mom also arrived from GA just before the kids and Rock got home, yay! We spent the rest of the afternoon in the backyard, where I finally planted my flowers purchased the previous weekend. Ah, it was great to dig in the dirt. The kids ended up in the pool and Rock blew up their bumper boats. Fabulous fun. My mom and I picked up dinner from the Dixie, which is one of my favorite new places! And it isn't really new at all, just newly down the street from us. Gotta love being able to get meat and veggies at a drive-thru!
Mother's Day was another gorgeous day! Rock occupied the boys in the pool again while Mom and I got lunch together. She brought grape salad and corn souflee (i think?), I made Paula Deen's Cheeseburger Meatloaf (YUM!) and broccoli, and Rock's mom brought her always-fabulous deviled eggs. The boys ate great, makes a momma proud to give them seconds of broccoli!! Then we spent the rest of the afternoon poolside again. Rock's mom called me after she got home and said she'd looked through the boook I made for her again and that she'd cried, which made me cry! I'm glad she wasn't indifferent about the gift. I just never know!
Owen's 5th birthday is still two and a half weeks away, but he'll be out of school then, so they celebrated in his class today. My mom brought letter and number cookie cutters, so our grand plan was to cut sugar cookies in the shapes of 5s. I hardly had any flour, but added the required amount to the dough and then spread some on my rolling sheet. after i rolled out some dough, I noticed all these black spots! ACK!!! Kinda noticeable in sugar cookies! So I tossed the dough, thinking I couldn't poison the kids in the 4K class. Turns out the black spots were actually ground coffee. I'm sure that wouldn't fly well for the class either. Sugar AND caffeine?! So I was pissed and we had to start over with another batch. the cutter wasn't working great since i had to toss my flour. So nix the 5s and do round cookies instead. Bummer! Of course we were doing this at 10 o'clock LAST night, so my options were limited! I think they turned out cute even if they weren't the original plan.


Now for the stroke waiting to happen. Let it be noted I've been to the doctor twice in the last month and a half or so to monitor the blood pressure. My first visit was actually because I thought I'd had a heart attack! And I may be a hypochondriac at home, but it takes a serious illness to get me to the doctor. Anyway... Erik has a cold, so had me up during the night. He ended up sleeping with me, so my quality of sleep was not great. My mom and I took Owen to school this morning, then she headed back to GA, and I headed back to sleep!! Rock didn't mention that he was going to retrieve Owen when the time came, and I was still snoozing while Erik was awake. Not good. I didn't wake up til Rock and Owen returned home and said, "WHAT SMELLS LIKE VICK'S?!" Erik had gotten into the Vicks VapoRub (the smaller jar, thank God) and smeared it on his and Raven's bodies. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I should have known the rest of the day would be in the shitter. The weather outside is cool and wet, so we were inside all day. Small house. Trapped Indoors. Because I'm certainly not taking these 2 anywhere. I've never heard so much screaming, whining, and fighting, or witnessed so much hitting, throwing, and spitting. Owen got popped and put in time out once, but I lost count with Erik. The last thing I remember before hauling the 2 of them to bed is that Erik got into my generic Pepto Bismol. He didn't get the whole cap off, but somehow, there was pink liquid on him and some on the floor. So this is what is going to lead to my having a stroke. I'm thinking on my next blood pressure check, medication is going to be demanded. Is it wrong that summer hasn't started and I can't wait til fall when I'll have TWO 5-HOUR DAYS TO MYSELF?!?!