A normal Wednesday

You know the day you blog about your kids and you paint this great image of them and then all hell breaks lose the next day??? Well, that is what happened today!

This morning at 3 am I heard Payce throwing up in the utility room. My first thought was, oh no my suitcase. You see I put my suitcase in the laundry room to unpack it from this past weekend and to repack it for this weekend. Payce's room IS closest to the bathroom and she had to pass two rooms to get to the laundry but that is where she decided to do her business. In my haze of consoling her and thinking what the hell, I vaguely remembered a Pinterest life hack that said pour coffee grounds on throw up.  After I consoled Payce I grabbed Matt's coffee grounds and poured the whole container on the mess, closed the door and went back to bed.

So then at 5 am Thomas woke up to the smell of coffee. He goes to investigate the smell,  opens the laundry room door and black stuff was everywhere and the odor of coffee was so strong he started gagging. By the time I got there I was gagging because I have a very weak stomach and am not a coffee drinker. I have never even tried it because of the smell. Anyway, getting back on track to the story. Thomas is looking at me crazy and I explain what happened. He decided to go sleep in the game room.

At 6:30 am Matt wakes up and can't find his Folgers anywhere. I can hear him looking in the pantry and banging stuff around I lay in bed laughing because I know he is fixin' to be mad. He yells, "Baby where is my coffee" and I reply, "In the washer and dryer room." So you can imagine how our morning went from there. He kept saying, "I so hate Pinterest." The good news is the throw up came up so easy. I would do that again, but you really just need a little coffee. The whole container was over kill.

I could wrap up my blog here and I know all my readers would LOL and share a smile with me, but that's not the end of today's story!

Today is Wednesday. It is the night we go Mexia for the kids to do first communion and confirmation classes. We have been doing this for almost two years because last year when it was time for First Communion they said Payce didn't have enough hours. Well I can tell you if I'm taking one to Mexia, I'm taking them all, but I'm not even going to go there right now. Last year after what seemed like a week of Payce being heart broken that she couldn't do First Communion with the boys a light bulb went off and she realized that waiting a year meant First Communion would be ALL about her! She got right to work planning her Quincenera. She picked a light up dress, crown, sequin wand and even the boy's clothes. I keep saying it is your first communion but she didn't listen.

My point to telling you all that is we only have 5 weeks left and I didn't realize what a part of our story our Wednesday routine is. We pick the kids up from school, they do homework on the way to Mexia, we eat dinner with them, then we drop them off at church and Matt and I go on a date. We have eaten at every restaurant in Mexia and shopped at almost every store. We have witnessed high speed chases and just missed a robbery at Walmart. I'm so full emotion thinking about how I didn't cherish the car rides with the kids screaming at each other and asking me to change the music 100 times. Where I always looked at it like an obligation just now I am seeing it as a commitment to the Lord to bring out family closer. Knowing once a week we were having dinner as a family and then Matt and I were guaranteed alone time for a hour and half was priceless.

Here's what I really want you to get. Being a Martin means no matter what happens in the day, no matter all the crazy that surrounds my life, at the end of the day we stick together. Knowing our Wednesday night routine and having that time to reconnect in the middle of the week has been a lifesaver and one that I now realize I will miss with all my heart. If I could challenge all of you to do just one thing it would be to find those moments, cherish them and don't let anything life throws at you get in the way them. Including 3 a.m. throw ups!