You learn from your mistakes...sometimes

I was making dinner tonight while the girls had been quarantine to their bedroom until they cleaned up all the crapola on the floor, lest I blow the very last bolt that was keeping my head screwed on at that time. About 10 minutes into the "lock down", I heard Abby scream that kind of scream that makes every mother panic...because that kind of scream means that either A. Emma hung herself in the blind cord, B. Someone opened their window and was in the process of kidnapping them or C. Emma was currently applying Abby's favorite lip balm to her tongue. Little did I know that the kind of bloody scream that came out of Abby's head had a D. option: Emma stuck yet another random object up her teeny nostrils. Great. She obviously had not learned anything from the last encounter of nose-hole mischeif...but, this is the kid who would eat soap as a toddler, gag and cry, and then put the bar of soap back in her mouth. I worry about that kid sometimes.The passenger on today's trip through the nose-tunnel: a blue polly pocket shoe. And this one was stuck WAY up there. In other words, there was no amount of blowing that could have shot that sucker out. Enter in a good ole' set of tweezers. Now enter in a child who is utterly freaking out at the sight of a good ole' set of tweezers. After some serious sweet-talking and some master maneuvering, I was able to coax that teeny shoe out of her amazingly teeny nose holes. Success, once again! I'm labeling myself a pro at this now.
When all was said and done, Jay chuckled and said, "Well, at least all those years of playing the Operation game as a kid finally paid off."
I also washed my brand spankin' new cell phone in the washing machine today. It is now drying and we are now praying that it works in a few days. It's enough to deal with the stupid things the kids do day in and day out...but when I do something stupid on top of it all, it kind of throws me over the edge. Blasted cell phone!
After weeks of emailing back and forth between our neuro, we are finally getting everything settled for Nathan's mito medications. I ordered one of his new meds today, and it was $200 for a 2 month supply. Too bad that money tree in the backyard didn't survive the winter.

Here's hoping that this is not a precursor to the way the rest of the week will unfold.