just happenings...

Woke at 5:45am this morning- my first day back in the gym for a 1-hour circuit training workout.  Felt great, considering I haven't done any resistance training since pre-pregnancy with Georgia.  Came upstairs after my workout, sweaty and disguisting, and certain that this pre-dawn sweatfest + one hot shower was sure to = a great start to the day. 

Here's what ensued in the first 70 minutes of the kids' wake-up...

1. Hot shower was taken + 1 kid (its actually becoming a treat to shower alone lately...)

2. Miss G blew through another diaper with her explosive bowel movements, leaking out through her pj's and all over the exersaucer.  Left Rowan eating his breakfast (mistake!) to run upstairs to "hose" her off in the tub.  Turns out, we washed Gryph in the tub last week, so the drain was clogged with dog hair, and did not drain, leaving poo floaties in the water.  Ick.

3. Returned downstairs with a clean Miss G, to find Shreddies and milk all over the kitchen, and Rowan trying to clean up the mess with a towel.  "Look Mommy- I'm helping you!".  M: "What happened, Rowan?"  R: "I was flinging Shreddies to Gryphy and my bowl dumped everywhere".  Argh.

4. Opened the laundry tub to run Georgia's poo-y clothes through a hot cycle, and was hit with the worst smell ever when I opened the front-load washer door.  (preface: our front-load washer door is always left open, otherwise it tends to smell musty and aweful when we open it the next time).  With closer investigation, it appeared that there was black mold  all over the inside of the rubber gaskets in the machine.  So, the next clean-up to be addressed...sat Rowan at the table to colour, and Miss G to play on the floor, and attacked the disguisting mess of the laundry machine.  I'm almost vomitting just re-thinking about it...

5. By 8:30am, I had enlisted Rowan's help to vaccum and wash the floors where his cereal had dumped, only to regret the "help", as he regularly forgets to ring the mop before slopping it (and a litre of water each time) all over the hardwood. 

Aiesh.