Where does the time go?

I know I haven't posted in a while, I have been super busy although I can't really tell you what I have been doing! The laundry is out of control, the kitchen floor is disgusting, I just did about two days worth of dishes (finished at 10:20) and our day today was just about as chaotic as you can get.

Harrison is on "Fall Break" the last three days of this week. I think it is kind of silly but who am I? Perhaps I think it is silly for selfish reasons. I should adore every moment I get with him because some day he will be asking for the car keys and running off with his friends, calling and asking if he can spend the night with them since he doesn't have school because of fall break. I know, I know. I should cherish his smiles and embrace the whines because some day he won't want to talk to me because I am "just Mom" but, today I wasn't having one of those days. He started picking on the twins as soon as he rolled out of bed, started causing tears, fights and getting them in trouble. Tomorrow will be a better day!

Harrison had a dentist appointment today. The poor kid lost a filling about six weeks ago. At the time, he had his six month cleaning scheduled for two weeks after we noticed it was gone, so they said he should be alright. Well, then they called to say the Dr wasn't going to be in that Friday and we had to reschedule, so it took another two weeks to get back in, then we saw him but had to wait another two weeks to get back in for the filling/cap. So, that brings us to today; appx six weeks after the darn thing fell off. I talked with Harrison in the waiting room and asked him, if Millie got restless, if I could bring her to the waiting room while they did his things, so she wouldn't be screaming etc. At first he said yes, then he changed his mind and said no. Undertandable, I don't know if I could have left him anyway! We were in the "quiet room" so it isn't like anyone outside the closed door could have heard her anyway...We decided to go ahead with the sealants on his molars. He had a new cavity as well as the one needing to be replaced, so we decided sealants would be a good plan. Tom's teeth are prone to issues so perhaps Harrison has inherited that from him. The hygenists painted his teeth and then it was time for Dr Sean to come in and do the fillings. Well, he took one look and said the one was absessed and it would need to just come out. Poor Harrison! He struggled to look up at me, white as a ghost!

About a few days before we noticed the missing filling, Tom was in the process of having a root canal or two done. He, of course, was miserable and suffering greatly, as his Masculin Book of Rights spells out in Chapter 42, paragraph 4, line 17. So, at one point when Harrison asked him for the 900th time how and why and when and where and who, Tom snapped, as we all do, and said "This is why you brush your teeth, because it hurts A LOT to get this type of stuff done!" Ladies, you will be proud of me, at no time during Tom's tooth episode did I roll my eyes or downplay his pain, at no time did I play the "Twins, 38 weeks, 7.4 and 6.5" card! I was very compassionate, very Florence Nightengale.

Ok, back to Harrison in the chair: I immediately had to switch out of my "magazine reading" mode and assure him he would be given medicine, he wouldn't feel a thing, and the tooth fairy pays out big for absesses!

He was so brave! Dr Sean did the injection and left the room for it to take affect. Harrison and I talked about what was going to happen and that he would feel some tugging but no pain. When they came back in, he just layed right back and let them do their thing! I think I cringed more at the sight of the Dr woggling the tooth back and forth to get it to loosen up and come out!

He got a cool little treasure chest for safe keeping of the tooth. They then fit him with a spacer and sent us on our way.

Tonight at bed time, I was tucking him in and telling him how proud I was of him, how incredibly brave he was! I told him all about how some other kids are not like that at all and I bet he was Dr Sean's best patient today! He looked up at me and said the thing all Mom's *need* to hear sometimes..."But Mommy, I couldn't have been so brave if you hadn't been there with me"

Need I say more