One Of Those Days

Less than a week ago I wrote about how I love to do spontaneous things with my kids during the day... and I do. Today, however, was a somewhat-failed-attempt at a spontaneous outing. A friend called today to see if we were done with our school work and wanted to go to the pumpkin patch. We were almost done, and although I was feeling a bit under the weather, I decided to pull up my mommy-bootstraps and head to the country. Now, we love our local pumpkin patch and love to go play and take photos there every year... BUT... we like to do it when it is not crowded.  That eliminates weekends and evenings, but during the day it is usually great.  Today, when we arrived, I was shocked at the number of people that were there... then I realized that it is Columbus Day.  There must be schools in the area that were not in session.  Oh well... we were already there, so I thought that we might as well go visit the patch.  The kids headed straight for the hay maze and after one trip through it, our 8-year-old friend was having a severe allergic reaction the hay.  His mom decided to make an emergency run home for medicine, and I offered to stay with the kids (my 3 plus her other 2).  Not a few moments after she was gone, Cooper started wailing for water and said, "I'm thirsty" about 100 times as he pulled on my legs and my shirt.  I quickly realized that my puny body and pounding head was not going to be able to keep up with 5 kids going in different directions in a crowd, so we soon decided to head home as well.  Once we were in the car driving home, I discovered that the few bucks that I had stuck in my pocket was missing - it must have fallen out at the pumpkin patch.  And oh!... to top things off... my new, favorite, off-white, monogramed purse got a ketchup stain on it.  Arrgh!  

So there you have it... my real-life-Monday-mommy-day.  At least I got a few good pictures of the kids.  I had to threaten them make them sit still, but I got a few good pictures!  (Actually, the kids were good... it was more of a bad-mommy, bad-coincidence, bad-decision day than anything else.)

~ My Kiddos ~

~Allie ~

(She really helps me get through these kids of days!)

~ kicked back Jack ~

~ cooper ~

 ~ my pretty girl ~

~ Jack on the hay stack ~

~ the thirsty little one ~