I'm just saying.......

Last night I watched Chandler; I picked him up from Cherie’s on my way home from work. So I had FOUR kids, all night long, until about 8:30.. Things were going just fine until Chandler decided to start SCREAMING his little preemie lungs out! I'm not kidding it was SO high pitched, and loud that I had to go inside and shut the door so that my neighbors wouldn't think someone was dying! He wouldn't stop no matter how I held, him rocked, him, burped him snuggled him. If I held him just right facing outward with pressure on his belly, he was okay, but dare I move him and he was back at it again.. Keena said he just does that and there isn't anything you can do but wait it out.. He’s gotten better, she said, but holy cow it was unnerving! I had to feed my three children and cooking while holding him outward was just not going to work, so I finally put him in the swing and let him scream it out till he fell asleep.. It took about 4-5 minutes.. (Which felt more like 20 because he was breaking my heart).. I was so relieved when he was sleeping contently.
So in that 3 hour time period between 5-8 I managed to cook dinner, serve dinner, eat my own dinner, clean up dinner, feed chandler a bottle, burp him, notice that my fridge was a mess, clean it out, including scrubbing the nasty shelves, take all the dirty clothes down to the laundry room where I quickly did a load of laundry, folded the clothes out of the drier, watched Ali do her gymnastic routine TWICE, listened to her tell me about the fire drill the school bus had in front of our house today (where Porter acted like a clown in front of her) 6 times, changed two poopie diapers, gave chandler a bath , put him in darling outfit from Mattie's bin, took cute pictures of him, carried him around screaming for 20 minutes, baked cookies, yes I baked cookies! (Two different kinds thank you) checked the girls backpacks, signed planners, helped them do homework, kept a watchful eye on Mattie, got him two sippy cups of water, AND cleaned off the chunk pile on my table…!So I guess what I’m saying is.......................I could totally handle another one......
And no, this is not an announcement.. As Ali would say….. “ What? I’m just saying…”