After being victim to a nasty bout of viral gastroenteritis, sick for a week, even a visit to the Tripler Day Spa (read ER) I have a new lease on life! I feel redeemed from being burnt out by all of my Day to Day Operations, a hidden blessing you could say!
I awoke with three children in my bed, I have no idea how they got there, I personally put them in their own beds last night. You never know how small a queen sized bed is until you share it with three little people...especially ones that have a deep seeded hankering to sleep as close to you, preferably on you with occassional kicking and flaling about.
After three failed attempts to beseech them back to La La Land (One of my FAVORITE vacation spots) I grimly made my way into the bathroom, before I have had a chance to fully wake up the demands start...
"Mama I want chocket melk!!"
"Mama what we dunnin today?"
"Mama, my daddy home?"
"Mama, I thought you makin' me chocket melk!!??"
Begging for just a moment of peace I throw my contacts in my eyes, sorrowfully glancing at what could be a glorious hot shower and head towards the kitchen. Its happened again... ghosts, robbers, geckos, or Hawaiian Menehune have once again stolen into my house, into my kitchen and left it a disaster! OK, that's not the truth, but it feels like it! Its takes 2.5 seconds for my clean, organized kitchen to turn into complete chaos. Its all that damn "chocket melk" orders I fill!! The fun stuff is when the "chocket melk" cups don't make it to the sink before they start a curdled milk nightmare!
So the "chocket milk" orders have been filled, the dogs have been let out, fed, watered, the trash has been taken out, and cartoons are ON. Time to get my bearings, today's going to be a big day! We've made plans with our Le Popps!
The plan is:
- Story Time at the Salt Lake Library @10:30am.
- Layover at Pass & Id (Mrs. Le Popp needs new base stickers...expired much!!!??)
- Picnic lunch at "The Blue Park" near Scott Pool on Pearl Harbor.
- Makalapa Clinic for Rx pick up.
- Quick stop at Le Popp residence to drop off a.) Carpet Cleaner b.)Dumpster Dived Excersaucer.
- Return to Kapolei for rest and relaxation (read Laundry and Dishes galore!)
But alas, I said extraordinary!
Minutes before we leave the house to begin our adventures I receive a call from Mrs. Le Popp whom informs me that Popplet #1 is feeling sick...so much so that he's asking for medicine and declines all previously planned festivities... I'm immediately mentally assaulted of visions of my aforementioned sickness. Time to re plan:
I decide to forget Story Time and instead knock off a few "To Dews" I've got.
So we head out the door, in search of the nearest Sprint Store. My poor Black Berry roller ball is ready to jump ship, and the previously spilled orange juice just isn't holding it together anymore! To my great dismay we walk into the Sprint Store only to find its completely overrun with people. Apparently people in the real world get today off, must be nice!
After waiting 20 minutes to "Check In" I'm told I can leave my phone and return in an hour. Feeling optimistic about our day I cheerfully head to the nearest Ben Franklin's. A quick Craft shopping trip to fill an hour, then off to the park...or so I thought!
As soon as we pull into a parking stall Jordan announces she needs to use the restroom, I think I growled... I know beyond a shadow of a doubt Ben Franklin's doesn't have a public restroom, so I ask where the nearest one is...
"Chuck E Cheese or Mc Donalds"
Seriously? Why not freakin' Disney Land!! I took the obvious choice and led my three ducklings down the street, up a flight of stairs to Mc Donalds. My "chocket melk" lover enthusiastically points out the Play Place just as I see a sign "Restrooms closed for Repairs". I reroute my brood back in the direction to Ben Franklin's with no other option but Chuck E Cheese. In my head I practice my opening lines to the expected door attendants...
'Hi, can we use the restroom... No, we're not paying customers... '
'Hi, GREAT shirt...can my kid use the restroom?'
Swallowing my pride and embarrassment I say nothing to the door attendant who's only care in the world is to stamp my hand with a black light specific hand stamp... (Great, no chance of ditchin' my kids here for a kidless craft shopping trip!) We head off past the flashing, noisy games, my poor kids drooling... After we all ceremoniously wash our hands and make our way to the exit doors I again start preparing my monologue...
'We're leaving now, we're fast huh!'
'HA We got you, we just peed for FREE!!'
I settled on mumbling something about our friend not being there... they didn't even check to see if my black light specific hand stamped matched that of the three kidlets on my heel... Oh well, guess I'll take them home, kinda cute anyways I suppose! ;)
We spent a horrific 45 minutes in Ben Franklin's where I somehow managed to pick out seed beads and pinwheels without breaking the whole store... We head back to Sprint, pick up my fixed Black Berry and head towards the Le Popps to make our delivery!
Once at Le Popp Res we learn that Popplet #1 is feeling MUCH better and ready to play! I unload my gang and head into the house... Ooooooohhh Aaaaahhhh, Air Conditioning! FREE Air Conditioning... I could stay there all day! And we did! The kids played (read playfoughtplayfought) and I covertly ate an entire box of Crunch n Munch, my drug of choice!
At 6pm Mrs. Le Popp and I decide to head towards Waikele Outlets in search of some fabulous July 4th Sales. We started at Oshkosh, put our finds on "hold", headed over to Carter's, back to Oshkosh, and up to The Children's Place.
Its there that I wanted to run for the hills! There was 1/2 dozen "$2.99" clothing racks that needed my attention, but six kidlets and two mama bears leaves lots of room for monkeying around! It still amazes me that the proper authorities weren't alerted! Of two things I'm sure of... Everyone in that store thinks we're horrible moms for letting our precious children run a muck, if they don't already have children they swore they'd never purposely have any(more)!
We left with four HUGE bags of clothes...and our tails between our legs.
My life is nothing short of an adventure! Lions, Tigers and Bears I've not got... but three monkeys with a passion to drive their mama batty I have!!!!
"Wooooooooo saaaaaaaaaaH"
