Trying to weather the storm

courtesy of This site.

After the worst day yet this deployment, I am going to take my girls to the zoo today. Anyone that would like to come along, we'll be there when it opens for about and hour and a half or so. I think I'll skip the gym and focus on my house and then focus on the girls at the zoo and come home for some "quality" time.

Quick recap on my yesterday.... crazy lady was blocking the way for those cars turning right (me) while they were working on the Railroad across the street. The light turned green for EVERYONE else 3 times before the woman finally did something about my honking (and those behind me honking too). Then I got stuck behind all sorts of other interesting drivers. (Those who ride their brakes when there is no one slowing down in front of them, etc) Then I went to the mall. I was supposed to meet someone - but it didn't work out. The girls still got a chance to play and had a good time - things were fine at that point. I decided maybe I could be a nice mom and let my girls eat something better than Burger King and took them to Chili's. Things went fine at first.... until the end of our meal. The girls were getting restless and I hadn't seen my waitress in over 10 minutes to ask for the check. Julia disobeyed one too many times which earned her a seat in the stroller (buckled in). She screamed bloody murder (her thing now) for what seemed like the last forever bit of our stay. The hostess could clearly see what was going on - did she help? NOPE! My waitress finally came out and I took care of the check. As I'm packing up our food and trying to get out of there - a woman walks up from no where and says, "is THAT YOUR kid?" To which I say, "Yes". Then she tries to start an argument with me about why my child is crying and screaming. I tried to kindly tell her that she was crying because she was disobeying and that we were trying to leave the restaurant. She left me alone after that(good thing for her nose too.... I think I would have snapped up and broken it had she pressed the matter). Guess what? AS SOON as we left Chili's Julia stopped screaming... imagine that!?? Then... tried giving the lady at the parking garage exit the cash AND my time punched card only for her to ONLY grab the time punch card and let the cash be dropped on the ground and go UNDER my car. So... I get out and reach half way under the car to pick it up and all the woman has to say is, "Wow... that was really under there!" UGH!! I could have screamed!!! Instead, I just bawled on the way home from the mall and made a silent vow to never take my kids out to a restaurant again.