Ruthie's 1st time cutting hair....hers AND Sophies!

My most wonderful childhood friend, Emily, known dearly to me as my Emmie Lou is getting married tomorrow!! I, as one of the bridesmaids, had to be at the rehersal (in ATLANTA!) at 4:45 today. My wonderfully gracious Friend, Melissa, said she would babysit the girls for me. Trying to "pay" her the only way I can afford-by baking with love-was in the kitchen mixing ingredients for a pie when Ruthie came running in the room.

"Mommy!" She yelled excitedly, "You have GOT to come see! Sophie got a haircut!!! I GAVE Sophie a haircut!!"

Oh, Oh.....My stomach is in my throat.....anger....no, excitement.....no, PANIC.....oh, yeah....there it is! PANIC!!!

"I have to leave in a few hours and I'm on a time schedule today!" I'm thinking as I assure myself inside,

"IT CAN'T BE TOOOO BAD."

Just then, Sophie cames running around the corner....stark naked I might add (how did THAT happen?!).....oh, you just can't imagine the sight! All of her curls were gone! She looked like a...a....a BOY!

Oh, goodness, in a panic I get in touch with my friend, Shandra, who is a whizz of a hair cutter and she said I could come right over!

Out on her deck I sat, taking pictures as my little Sophie got her "mainged puppy" haircut turned into comething quite decent! Thanks Shandra!!!

To add to the sheer panic of my day, I realized Ruthie had given HERSELF a haircut as well! A good CHUNK of the back of her hair had been wacked off! Shandra ended up cutting a bob for her, and I must say....it looks SO lovely and Ruthie ADORES it!!

So needless to say, my children look totally different from the way they did when they woke up this morning, but, of course, they are still GORGEOUS!!

And, YES, I did finish the pie, finish a load of laundry, iron my husbands clothes for him (!!!!) AND make it to Emmie's rehersal dinner ON TIME!

So, the one thing I did not add, is that today is my 5th wedding anniversary! So, in the middle of this drama, my mind wonders back.....

October 3, 2003 1PM: I had a hair appointment to get my "up do" for my wedding with my beautiful veil, where from there I RUSHED to the church to be a princess for a day.

And compares....

October 3, 2008 1PM: while in my horribly MESSY kitchen I try to make a pie, do laundry and am so pleased that the girls aren't fussing (all while in my jammies, mind you!) when suddenly my whole day changes and I, once again, RUSH, this time to get my kids hair "fixed" instead of my own.

And, so, I marvel at how things change in as little as 5 years!!

So, of course, I am looking for the meaning in all of this....the lesson to be learned...and I realize, that while five years ago, I got to be the princess for a day, now I live with two princesses (in training!)everyday....And for THAT, I am very grateful.

LAUNDRY!!!

Okay, so today I am drowning in laundry....and you think I'm kidding! The basket in the kids room is OVERFLOWING with dirty four year old and two year old laundry....
you don't even want to see my closet! Our laundry hasn't been touched in two weeks (and yes, we still have things to wear...that's how spoiled we are!)
And I can not even get started on the amount of peed on sheets I have to wash!! I mean, I'm trying not to buy pull ups to put the girls in at night...because honestly, why do we potty train if we STILL have to buy pull ups...and that just encourages the little one, Sophie, to pee all the more! So, every night I say..."not too much water at dinner...we don't want pee pee accidents"....and more mornings than not I get up to wet children! "pee "i" my be....moommmie!" says Sophie, with, of course, the sweetest smile ever imagined.
So, anyway, I have been trying to catch up on all the other laundry, so needless to say, these sheets keep piling up and piling up! At this point I haven't a clue how I will EVER catch up!!!
I feel like I'm in a huge ocean of laundry and the waves keep coming and coming..."wait let me get up!" I cry...and another wave of little girl jammies and panties come flying at me from the deep..."HELP! I'm drowning", I yell to another wave of my husbands dirty jeans and smelly t-shirts. oh no!!! a BIG ONE! It's sheets....pink ones, blue ones, polka dot ones! And waht's that smell.....oh, yes! The ever present smell of urine that I know now is a constant fragrance in the life of a potty training mommy......
WILL I EVER GET UP out of this endless ocean of laundry?! And I know the answer is yes, beacuse I always catch up....I always do though I don't know how because the odds are so painstakingly AGAINST me, but somehow I come through the piles of stink smellies and I know, deep down, that 'this, too, shall pass"...