A Mom of 6 Kids

 

Last week was a bit rough!  I wish I had a reason to explain why it was rough, but I don't.  Truthfully, the biggest problem was that I was just being myself.  It started out that I had just received a used smart phone from my dad (yep, I finally retired my dinosaur cell phone).  He had used it for several years and it worked and looked great.  Well, only after having it for a little over 2 weeks- I had my hands full of stuff (like a mom of 6 kids always does) and I dropped it face down on the cement and the screen broke.  Oooooh, I was so mad at myself!!

 ALL DAY!! 

 On different day that week I checked Kaden out from school to go to Walmart to buy some black church pants that he had to have for his choir concert.   I checked him out early because we had a time crunch to get him back to football practice.  We drove to Payson Walmart (about 20 min. away), parked, and started getting out the babies when IT (that terrible feeling) hit me again- I had forgotten my purse!  Who does that???  (A mom of 6 Kids) Kaden couldn't believe I would do something like that- I had to do the unthinkable and tell Kaden it was time he knew that I wasn't perfect:)  Luckily, I have a fabulous husband that was on his lunch break and he met me half way with my purse.  So we made it to Walmart, found the pants, and many other things I never knew we always needed.  As we were checking out, Kate was crying, tired, and hungry.  I had bought some milk for home, but knew she wouldn't drink it because it was cold.  She still likes her milk heated up.  So I quickly grabbed a warm drink in the check out isle that looked like what I thought was a vitamin water or something similar to it.  We loaded the car, and the crying babies and started homeward bound.  I had Kaden pour some of the drink in her bottle and feed it to her.  Kennadi was thirsty and had a few drinks.  I drank the other half of it.  It tasted just like a sweetened water- I never took the time to read what it was.....  From that time on Kate, and Kennadi were zonked.  They slept most of the evening away.  I told Josh I must've really wore them out shopping.  By the time eight o'clock hit I was not going to make it any longer- I was so tired, Josh told me to go to bed.  The next day I showed Josh the drink and he read it.  NOT GOOD- the NEURO drink "SWEET DREAMS" is a sleep aid.  It said on the back "Do not Drive", "Do not give to Children", and other important warnings.  Who puts that type of a drink right next to the candy?? Shouldn't that be against the law! AND-Who doesn't read the labels? (A Mom of 6 Kids) I felt horrible, I had given my children- my BABY- a drink that I didn't even realize was not good for them. I was just trying to survive the moment and didn't pay attention to details.... I'm glad nothing more came of it.  Except, that my mom decided she needed to try the drink out for herself.  She was a bit disappointed it didn't have the same effect on her.  (I will have to remember to buy that little drink for my kids the next time we drive to Lake Powell or Yellowstone though:)