Friday September 20, 2013:
Most of my morning was spent playing with the kids and trying to get work done, with Internet that was not working most of the time (long story). Devlin ran to the bathroom and shut the door. I waited and didn't hear anything after a minute, so I went to investigate. He had peed his pants. Right in front of the toilet. He went to the bathroom and decided it was better to stand in there and pee his pants. Big 'UGH' from Mom. Then a list of questions to find why he decided it was better and then "Well, you need to clean this up, here's a towel."
After things settled down, I put Kade down for a nap. Then I got lunch ready, Kade got up, and we ate. I left lunch out because Devlin takes longer to eat than the rest of us. I was sitting on the couch and all of the sudden Hope jumped and put her paws on the table and starts eating our food! While I was right there!! I was so mad. I hurried and put her outside while the kids were crowding trying to see the damage to lunch.
Not even 5 minutes later, Devlin peed his pants again in the exact same way. This time, I put him in time out and told him to then clean up. He went in to take his pants off, and then there was a knock at the door...
*Now here's where time slowed down*
It was the postman delivering my Thrive Food order that had to be forwarded (for some reason my address update didn't work? something wrong happened). He began to hand the package to me, and naturally I reached for it. He quickly pulled it back and said "Woah, you have to pay me $9.88 for this." I was annoyed with how he was acting, especially since he was holding both doors open and Kade was trying to escape and Hope was barking a ton. I was overwhelmed. I teared up.
I couldn't find my wallet right away and when I did, I dropped it. I then got a pen, and dropped it. Then when I took the cap off, I dropped it. I felt like an idiot. And to make things worse, the postman was watching me and laughing at everything. He was laughing! I felt so dumb.
All the while Hope was still barking and I was writing the check and he says, "Don't you get so annoyed with all the barking?" I barely kept my cool. I tried to be calm as I said, "Yes I do, but she always does this when people come by." I kept writing the check. Who knew it took SO long to write one little check?!?!
THEN Devlin walks out to the whole scene butt naked!! I kid you not! I was still there trying to keep Kade from escaping while writing the check and the postman is still laughing. I was mortified. I immediately let go of Kade and grabbed for Devlin. I tell Dev, "You need to go back to the bathroom, you don't have clothes on!" He started to go back to the bathroom.
I turn back to the mailman, and I say "sorry". He responds with, "Don't worry, it's not the first time I've seen a penis." Not making this up here! I froze and thought, 'what a freaky thing to say...' My next thought was finishing writing the check (yes, it took forever to write this check out) and to get him away from my house.
Devlin starts to come back to say hi and the guy starts talking to him. I think, 'you freak, stop talking to my kids after being rude and laughing and talking about stuff.' I then pushed Dev out of the way, threw the check at the guy, and grabbed my package. Then I closed the door as quick as I could with getting the boys out of the way.
I felted so humiliated and embarrassed. I decided that the mature thing to do here, after so many frustrating things happening in such a short amount of time, was to throw the package on the floor and then get down on the floor and cry. Don't worry, it was food storage and it didn't break or anything :)
As I'm on the floor, the kids got down too. Devlin said, "you crying on the floor?" I had to laugh. Then Kade started patting my head. They brought me back to reality and I just smiled and laughed with them.
And all of this (in purple) happened in about 5 minutes. It felt so much longer than that.
Looking back, it's hilarious. I think the guy was trying to be funny in his own way, but with everything else that happened in the day, it came across in a bad way. The next day we saw each other while he was putting mail in the box and he laughed again. This time I just laughed too. I no longer cared what he thought.
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