I know in my first blog I said that I would try and do a weekly post. HA! That was now a month ago. Seriously, I want to post often, because believe me my weeks are always full with something interesting to say! 

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After my first post Easter was here. Since the kids were going to be out of school that following week, I decided that I would travel to Virginia to visit my side of the family - 5 Hours -  no husband - alone - with 3 kids. Was I nuts? Yes absolutely!

Well I knew I did not want to be home with them for the entire week, alone. At least this way they could hang out with all of their cousins to. Yes there are lots. My husband says we breed like rabbits! I tend to agree. There are 15 in all. Ranging in ages from 5 months to 21 years. For each of my 3 there is a cousin of the same age. LOTS!!

I know that some parents reading this may think that staying home alone with their children would be a blessing. Your children must be absolute angels. I envy you.

I love my kids. But even the weekends are hard enough. After the first full day with ADD, Autism and a 3 year old, I am counting the time for when Monday comes.

So off we go. We left the house at 815am. I had to run in to town for a few errands. By the time I was done and ready to get going it was now 9:00am. So on our way I stopped by Burger King for breakfast. I knew this would keep them happy for at least 5 minutes. Shortly after leaving the drive-thru my 3 year old tells me "I gonna be sick." Oh no! Not 3 minutes later, up comes her breakfast. All over the laptop-we use it for movies. All over the bags, her blankie, her seat and herself. What a mess.

So we go back home. This throws Scott into a fit. If have never seen an Autistic child throw a temper tantrum you are lucky. Imagine the worst tantrum you have seen. Now add in psychotic body slamming and you have what I call, Scott. See, he was told that he is going to see G-ma. When you tell a child with autism that you are going to do something you have to tell them if it is not going to happen. Otherwise you get a, Scott.

Anyway, we get back home and I get her all cleaned up. I decided to wait a while to see if her tummy is better before I try it again. I call my husband at work to let him know that we are home again. I called my mom to let her know that I was home, again.

After about an hour Laura said that she was better. So we loaded up, again. Now it was 11am. Had I kept driving I would have been on the other side of Raleigh by then.

Whenever Scott has to get in the car he has this ritual of running around the car. I do not know why, but he does. If he is not able to run then we have another Scott episode. Since he was running around the car, Laura decided that she would to. After a couple of minutes I said it was time to go. I am telling you it was like hurding cats! One going in one direction, one in another.

Ok, time to go! Just as I get them in the car, my 10 year old with ADD decided that she needed to go to the bathroom. FINE! Because of her ADD it can take take her 10 minutes to complete a simple task, such as peeing. And it looked like that is what was happening. So I start honking the horn. She comes out, forgetting to shut the door behind her so then the puppy follows. Now we have to chase Tony Stewart around. Of course he thinks it is a game. By now I am about to loose it. We have not even left the driveway yet.

Finally! She catches him, he is licking her face. She climbs in the car. Everyone is ok. So we are off. AGAIN!

.... to be continued