Last night was a sleepless night in our house.

Around 10pm we woke up Ellie {8 weeks} and changed, fed, and put her to bed for we headed off to bed ourselves. While getting meds for the sick hubs and it started. Izzie. Screaming from her bedroom. I hurried in there to hopefully figure out what was wrong before she woke everyone else.

What caused the panicked scream? Her knee hurt... Through all the crying and whining I think what happened was when she rolled over in her bed {apparently violently} she hit her knees on the wall... Yeah, that requires blood curdling screams.

After a long road of

• snuggles
• talking
• multiple trips back and forth from my room
• giving permission for the now wide-awake Mags to snuggle with Izzie
• a drink of water
• "medicine" {icey hot} on her knees

I just new we were back on track for a good night's sleep.

I made it back to my bed just in time for Izzie to start whaling as she marched into my room to tell Matt of her ailment. He sent her back to bed and gave Mags permission to sleep in the guest room since the single bed of snuggles wasn't working.

A few hours later when Ellie woke up again to eat, Matt made a trip to calm the girls.

A few hours after that Ellie woke Again to eat and the poor girls snot-filled nose wouldn't let her go right back to sleep. Matt was taking a turn soothing her after the evil snot-sucker episode when I hear, "Girls! Go back to bed." I look at the end of the bed to see two silent sisters standing next to one another and staring at their daddy.

I have not idea how little sleep they really got. Craziness.

Somehow The Brother slept through the entire night, wondering in our room {early for him} at 6:45ish. The girls followed suit shortly.

This was a recipe for a disastrous day! I decided to try to get out in front of it before things went south fast. After breakfast and a shower I told the kids to get dressed fast. {They LOVE going} Today was Jamin's Nanna day so he was pumped to go hang out with his grandparents so while the girls finished dressing I fed Ellie {again} and loaded them up. The sick hubs stayed with Ellie.

Where were we going that was so excited you ask? Target. lol I told ya. They just like going. I had been thinking about getting the kids a play broom {kid-sized} so they could do their sweeping chore easier so we headed out in search of a broom!

Target:

1. located meds for hubs
2. scored the last play broom in the whole store
3. found a cute clearance pillow case {Thoughtful Thursday post coming soon}

Our round trip was less than an hour and half and that's 20 minutes one way into town. 😀

One the way home we turned off the colors songs 8[ and rocked out to some Air1 for some mommy sanity. Izzie heard a new song and announced it was her favorite. {lub her} As she tried to sing the catchy yet slightly cheese song in the back seat it was clear that we were "counting our rainbows" by enjoying one another today after a long dark sleepless night.

Thanks Air1 for broadcasting truth
for my babies to learn and love!

You know you've earned motherhood tenure when you have...

1. peed while breastfeeding.
2. blamed your child for spilling something on your that morning because someone noticed the permanent grease stains on your t-shirt.
3. cooled of fast-food for your children with the air condition vent in the car.
4. convinced your children that they are privileged because they get to vacuum or share a room or give away some toys.
5. lost the real words for pee pee, poo poo, too-ta, and or dinker.
6. almost forgot to close the door when using the restroom in public.
7. pretended to eat the funky tasting dinner you just made and bribed the kids to eat it with the dessert you were now eating so you didn't have to throw away all that hard work or have it for leftovers.
8. thrown a towel over the wet bedsheets and sent your child back to bed for a couple more hours.
9. used the phrase, "Well, we don't usually bury people in the backyard...".
10. told your child it was their "last bite" at least 5 times.
11. taken a picture of your child's poop.
12. pulled your child out of bed for talking and playing to put them in time-out.
13. excused your children to others saying "they love to dress themselves" when you know good and well you picked out those clothes from the top of the dirty clean clothes pile in the laundry room.
14. rocked while sitting in a sedimentary chair and you weren't holding a baby.
15. licked a paci you picked up off the floor to clean it off before giving it back to baby.
16. found yourself socially inept when you don't have your kids to chase around at a social function.
17. used the phrase, "I know your trying to poop but you need to finish eating."
18. grounded your child from their invisible friend because they wouldn't stop chatting at bed time.
19. run out of the house with a  change of clothes for every member of the house because your headed to the grocery store for a few hours and ended up needing none of it but the next day you went to the gas station with nothing and needed it all.
20. needed and planed to take a nap when hell freezes over and all the kids are asleep at the same time but then watch an "adult" TV program instead and are shocked at where the time went when they emerge one-by-one an hour and half later.
21. wondered over to Facebook to "load pictures of your kids to share with distant family" and find yourself laughing at some random blog post you clicked over to that your mommy friend shared.
22. covered the baby you were wearing with a towel so you don't splatter hot oil on them while browning hamburger meat or cooking other food.
23. wiped splattered food off a sleeping baby you are wearing when said towel wasn't placed strategically enough.
24. removed your crumbs off a baby while they were being held, sleeping, or nursing.
25. scooped left overs off the floor regardless of their texture because you couldn't fathom cooking the next day.
26. sported mud on your jeans on a rainy day except for it wasn't mud...nor raining.
27. gotten shot with explosive poop from two foot away {or watched your husband get shot- bwahahaha}.
28. picked a booger out of a kids nose, in the church nursery, and the kid wasn't yours.
29. pulled your daughter's hair back into a pony tail using the food caked in her hair as hairspray.
30. swayed a swaddled baby in a car seat with your foot while music played from the bouncy seat sitting next to her so you could write down crazy things that you may or may not have experienced as a mother for a blog post to hopefully make other mom's laugh.

Head on over to the as Jules is going Facebook page or comment below to add your own qualifications for earning motherhood tenure 😉