I'm living up to my name!!

Yesterday was such a full day, I felt so gratified. I was living up to my name, A Busy Mommy.

After staying up way too late with ClassyJen the night before, 8am came very fast. But I drug my sleepy butt out of bed and got my day started! First I had to drive hubby to work, he had to be there for 9am. I had to work at 10am, and since we don't have any daytime child care, Ben went with me. Before I made it to work though, I headed over to the dollar store to pick up a few things I need for the move...a new mop head, a broom handle, and a few cheapy toys to keep Ben entertained while at work with Mommy. He picked out a phonics writer, markers, a bag of small animals, a bag of small dinosaurs, and a pkg with a few army men and a catapult. Just before we headed off to work, we picked up a Pink Lemonade sports drink for him to drink while at work.


Now, this is completely my fault but....He was a tyrant at work with me!! He had had trouble sleeping the night before, and I added red dye into the mix. Yup, that pink lemonade that I didn't even give a second thought too had hyperfied my usually very lovely and caring 3.75 year old into a wall bouncing, kicking and thrashing lunatic!! I was at my wits end with him come lunch time. Thankfully, my boss/stepfather came in and saw the smoke rolling out of my ears and offered to work through the afternoon so I could take Ben out of there.

We decided to grab some lunch and head up to the new apartment to get some work done.
We loaded up the car with a lot of my kitchen stuff and headed over to the new place! There is nothing better than an empty apartment for a hyperfied preschooler to burn off all that energy. (Well, maybe outdoors but hey, it's still flippin cold outside here) So, I cleaned for about 2.5 hours, (I love my new kitchen...it's huge!!!) and Ben ran for about the same...he's a great little helper and he was down on all fours scrubbing the bathroom floor for as long as his attention span would allow.



Around 6pm, Daddy was all done working, and I picked him up at work and he dropped me back off. I had to go finish my shift. We had our bi-weekly crib tournament last night, and usually I don't play, but they were short a person so I jumped right in. I tried my darndest but to no avail, I ended up in second to last place...not a winner for me, but I had a lot of fun!!

When I closed up shop at around 10pm, Daddy came back to get me and we took another load of kitchen stuff up to the apartment. We walked around the new place, imagining what it will be like with all of our stuff there. Chatting about what is going where, what to keep, what to sell, ect...we didn't actually make it home until about 11:30pm. And I went in, and turned on my PC...I had planned to tell you all last night about my productive day, but I didn't have it in me. I laid down on the futon, and watched 10,000bc on demand. (Pretty Good)

I hope all the other Busy Mommies out there had productive days....as for today, not so productive. I think I used it all up yesterday!