One Thing After Another

Today we went to Topsy Turvy, a great jungle gym for kids. Abby and Sam had a great time. We came home and Sam had a three-hour nap, after which I decided we needed to make a trip to the grocery store. Upon returning, just as I was about to unlock the door, Abby announces she needs to use the potty. I quickly open the door and get her to the toilet - too late. She wees on the bathroom floor. No big deal, she tried. I partially clean up the mess, while simultaneously putting away the groceries. I decide to put her in the bathtub and throw Sammy in as well for good measure. I finish with Sammy and dry her off while Abby continues to play in the tub. I start to make dinner while Sammy wanders back and forth between the kitchen and the bathroom visiting us both. Soon I hear Abby and Sammy laughing hysterically. I smile to myself and think how nice it is to make dinner in peace. However, a few minutes later Sammy appears at the door of the kitchen completely soaked and dripping from head to toe. The vest she is wearing is hanging very low on her and completely drenched with water. The nappy she was wearing was so wet she might as well have gone swimming in it. I go into the bathroom where the rug is completely sopping and the floor is covered in a good inch or more of water with shampoo bottles and soap spilling out everywhere. Abby is sitting in the bathtub grinning. I can't help but laugh. I get Abby out of the tub to dry off and leave the mess for later. I finish making dinner. By the time Sammy is done with dinner, she has spinach and lentils all over her pajamas and in her hair (what was the point of a bath). Abby can't find her headband so she goes to the bathroom to find it and comes out crying because she is all wet (from the mess SHE made). I change both of them into new pajamas. I start cleaning up the mess in the living room while Sammy and Abby play in Abby's bed. Abby gets really hyper and before I know it she has knocked Sammy into one of the bars and she is screaming in pain. While I put Sammy to bed, Abby decides to take a pen and write all over our computer desk as well as on a check someone has given me for some money they owe me. I take the pen away. I start to finish cleaning up the first bathroom, when Abby comes in saying she wants to use the little potty which I packed up and put in the garage ages ago. She then wees on the bathroom floor AGAIN. I change her for the third time and just put her to bed. Then I proceed to clean up bathroom number two and the spinach and toast all over the floor from dinner. AND people ask me what I do all day. Who says moms have nothing to do??? At least Charles came home and made me a nice homemade apple crumble. Now that's more like it!