Danielle Marie

Mommy Duties

Imagine being in a deep sleep enjoying a nice dream, when you hear little feet coming up the hallway. My youngest whispered at the end of the couch (oh I’ll tell you why I’m on the couch versus my bed in a minute) “I peed on the floor”. In a haze from just waking up I ask her to repeat that one more time she said, “I peed on the floor”. I got up to walk down the hallway feeling wetness beneath my feet to come to a bathroom that looked like someone left a faucet running all night and the sink overflowed onto the floor but at this point I wasn’t that lucky because it was pee. I’m standing there at 3 in the morning staring at the kids bathroom covered in pee and baby powder and one little girl standing there smiling up at me (at this point she’s happy with herself that she didn’t pee in her bed). Oh did I forget to mention we are newly potty trained (minus #2 she will not sit on a toilet quite yet for that one)! Anyways back to the bathroom. I notice toilet paper in different spots now I know she tried to clean it up herself and by doing so she tracked little pee covered foot prints up the hallway. I just smile at her and proceeded to get a towel to start cleaning the mess up. Now I head to the kitchen to make some mop water so that I can mop the bathroom/hallway and start to run a warm bath for some little girl. Now I’m staring at the clock knowing my alarm will be going off here soon to start getting ready for the day. I get the bathroom and hallway mopped. Now at this time everyone is sleeping still it’s just me and Melle up. I come down the hallway from putting the mop up so I can bathe the littlest and I see my husband hugging her in the hallway. He asked, “everything okay what’s wrong” I just told him what happened and he went back to the room. Short time later all I hear is his snoring while I’m now bathing Melle. I think must be nice. I get her bathed and decide to go ahead and dress her for the day. It’s a cold day in Texas so sweatpants and t-shirt it is. Get her all snuggled up in her bed with Pringles, chocolate milk, and Kickboxer on her TV (yes that is her favorite movie). Come back to the laundry room because now I’m going to start a load of laundry and clean the towels that are covered in pee. Sat back on the couch turned on the ID channel because at this point my alarm will go off in thirty minutes so what’s the point in going back to sleep. Yes! If you kept up this started at 3am and we are now thirty minutes away from my alarm going off which it goes off at 4:45. This is how my Wednesday started off!! How did yours start?