Tuesday's Run Down

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DO NOT JUDGE ME OR MY CHILDREN BY THIS POST! KEEP IN MIND THEY ARE GOOD, SWEET KIDS MOST OF THE TIME, BUT THIS WAS A BAD DAY! A REALLY BAD DAY!

My day went something like this...
-Rob gets up early for a baseball clinic.
-I get the kids up and ready and apparently BOTH of them have woken up on the wrong side of the bed.
-Cade has a total breakdown about some pg-13 Star Wars movie that I will not let him watch until he is 13!
-Cora throws a toy at Cade and tells him to "hush his mouth."
- Cade cries harder.
- Cora and mommy have a heart to heart about how you throw balls and play with toys, but if you throw things at your brother, a spanking is the consequence. (yes, we spank, not often, but we do!)
- We all go to the car (crying)
- I forget something and run back to the house.
- I return to find Cade crying HARDER and Cora yelling something to the effect of "this van has 2 doors and that's MY door! Don't get in my door!"
- Between cries Cade sputters out that Cora has thrown a bottle of nail polish at him for using "HER" door.
- Cora verifies this.
- I spank Cora's hand firmly.
- Cora flies into hysterics and then a total rage!
- I get in the drivers seat in time to see Cora beat red, clinched fists, and violently screaming at the top of her lungs. She then looks at me and yells, "YOU'RE FIRED!"
- Cade's crying turns to roaring laughter and I try hard to keep a straight face.
- We drop Cade off at Vacation Bible School.
- Cora finds a sucker in the car and stops crying when I tell her she can have it. (breakfast of champions)
- Cora and I drive to clinic to get her counts checked.
- We walk all the way to the building and once we reach the doors, Cora falls completely apart and says, "I wanted to ride in to the building in my stroller!"
- I try to reason and tell her we are all ready here and the car is far.
- No luck, she goes boneless and falls on the ground.
- About this time one of her FAVORITE nurses walks out and says, "Hey Cora, what's wrong?"
- Cora screams, "AHHHHHHH! DON'T LOOK AT ME!"
- I get her a little calmer and we proceed into the building cautiously.
- Upon our arrival we are greeted by the ever so sweet childlife specialist, Ms. Annie, who Cora adores. She too says, "Hey Cora. What's wrong?"
- Cora throws her sucker at Ms. Annie. (yes, she did!)
- Mommy is enraged and has had enough.
- Mommy escorts Cora outside and spanks her firmly again, this time on the hiney
- Eventually Cora calms and we make it pretty much through the visit incident free.
- Cora's ANC was 2364! Yay for an immune system!
- Dr. G wrote Cora a prescription for orthodic inserts for her shoes because she now walks so flat footed that her ankles look like they may buckle. This is partially due to the chemo. (One more thing for mommy to worry about!)
- We pick Cade and his friend up from VBS.
- Eat lunch
- Send Cade and his friend to the slip and slide where they stayed for the next 2 hours.
- Attempted to put Cora down for a nap, once, twice, three, four, times. She continued to get up until daddy (who is WAY too much of a sucker for Cora) agrees to lay down with her. They both fall asleep.
- laundry, house pick up, monitoring the WWF on the slip and slide
- Cora wakes up and sticks Dora stickers all over the coffee table and squirts cherry burst shampoo all over her play kitchen.
- Walk
- Dinner with some interesting conversation about how Cade has now decided that he wants to be an archeologist in Rome (good luck with that, Cade!).
- Dinner clean up and bath
- At this point, I am BEAT! I am totally over Cora and her antics and I am near tears wondering where I went wrong with this unruly child!!!!! What the heck has gotten into her? How on Earth will she go to preschool next year?
- Rob and Cade are doing Math flash cards and I lay on the couch.
- Cora empties her entire piggy bank on the floor ( I am BEYOND caring).
- Cora brings me a box on the couch that has coins and a folded up piece of paper in it and says, "This is for you mommy."
- I half heartedly say "oh thanks!"
- She says, "It's medical fund money and a card." I get a little more interested at where she's going here.
- She continues, "I will read you the card." unfolds the paper "Dear Mandy, I hope you are having a good day and a good year. I pray for you everyday because you are a good mommy and I hope you feel better."
- Cora puts the paper down and hugs me.


So I decide to not worry too much! Because yes, she had a bad day. She's still two. But, she is learning. Maybe we need to work on not throwing objects at people, but she is learning a lesson way more important. (well maybe not way more important!) She is learning about generosity, caring about others, and prayer. And she is learning it because of you! Our family and friends who continually reach out to us! It really does take a village to raise a child! Thank you! I am glad somebody's getting through to her!