Dentist - part 2

Positive: None of the kids have any cavities. :-)


Not so Positive: Taylor has to go back to have two baby teeth pulled because they haven't come out by themselves. It's a scheduling nightmare to coordinate her, Brittney and Zeke. :-/ (Tay to get baby teeth out, Brittney's re-scheduled cleaning because she had to work today, Zeke to finish root canal and front tooth restructuring)


Negative: Anthony kept chasing Sophia in the waiting room while I was trying to re-schedule Taylor and Brittney. After talking to him twice, I finally had him stand by me. He copped a huge attitude and you'd have thought I was killing him. He still refused to stand there. So I was trying to keep Sophia quiet, deal with Anthony's meltdown, keep an eye on Zeke and work with the scheduling gal. My stress level was a bit high at that moment. :-(


I finally got done and rounded up the kids. That's when I realized Sophia was missing. Perfect. I lost a child. I quickly checked the floor we were on. I didn't see her but Taylor said she went to the bathroom so I found the bathroom. I tried the door but it was locked. I yelled, "Sophia!?!" a few times through the door. I knew Sophia could lock the door herself but she can't always get it open. I could hear someone in there so I kept shouting until the elevator doors on the opposite end opened. Taylor came out and told me that Sophia was in the downstairs bathroom. Oh........ I guess I'll quit yelling at the poor innocent person in the bathroom then.


I already had my fill of stress by the time we made it back to the van. The kids tried to open the sliding van door but in the process, they broke the handle. They'd already broken the one on the other side last year but since it would be over $300 to get it fixed, I figured we could live with only one useable door. Except as of today, we now have none. Not only would the door not open from the inside OR the outside, but there was also an incredibly annoying beeping to tell me the door wasn't shut completely. I couldn't get the door open and I couldn't get the beeping to turn off. I finally had all the kids climb in through the front door. Then I turned a movie on for them, turned the radio up for me and drove home as fast as I could.


So if you see me at baseball tonight, it might be wise not to ask how my day was ;-)