May or May Not Monday

May or May-Not Monday: Where you can divulge the secrets of life's mishaps without feeling like a failure. So go on... own up. I may have...

My life as a single parent this week was dictated by decisions like eat dinner or sleep, take a shower or sleep. Sleep won every time. You see I barely slept while in Ohio. Not for lack of comfort or chance, but the littles didn't sleep soundly so neither did I. My sleep count in five nights was two hours two of the nights, and five the other three. I may or may not have literally passed out on my littles' lap on the second  leg of our flight home. On Thursday when I had my darling husband to shoulder some of the burden, I took a shower. I may or may not have realized the last time I had taken a shower was the Friday night before for the wedding on Saturday. Wow. 

I may or may not be issuing the warning that peanut butter explodes in checked luggage. 

My littles' great aunt may or may not have showed them how fantastic she is on the playground  sliding down slides in heels no less! 

I may or may not have learned that red lentils and green lentils do not have the same cook time, only after cooking them together in the same pot. It makes for mush. Yummy mush, but nevertheless mush. 

I may or may not have decided to be a fun mom and run through the sprinklers with my littles. Thirty seconds into the fun my ankle found a hole and my ankle popped. Hobbingly inside, I doused my foot and ankle in arnica. Thankfully, luckily - probably because I'm Irish - my ankle was fine the next day. 

I may or may not be a high maintenance traveler. Due to my food allergies, I literally have to bring all of my food precooked. No biggie when traveling by car but not so breezy through tsa. We get to the hotel and immediately I groan. I can smell scented laundry detergent. Don't get me wrong, it's lovely to know the sheets are clean. But I break out in hives wherever it touches. So we go to Target and find a pack of twin sheets on clearance for ten bucks. Then we have to find blankets because I'm going to cocoon myself in the fitted sheet and put the flat sheet on the bed horizontally for the littles' sensitive skin too. We bought two blankets that the littles would be happy to use after the trip. 

I may or may not have gotten sucked into The Keepers on Netflix and stayed up until 6am to finish the season because I knew I would never make time to turn it on again. I needed to know the conclusion. It started with my darling husband picking the show and promptly falling asleep through the first episode. Tread lightly with this show, it can be a trigger for many. 

Our pool card got left at the pool this week. Of course I didn't realize it was missing until we tried to access the pool. I asked the pool monitors if it had been turned in. Nope. Great, off we went to the HOA office to get a new one. Twenty-five dollars for a new pass. We used to punch in a code. But because of the denigration of morals in society, a pool card is required. So to access a pool that I already pay for with his fees, I have to shell out twenty-five dollars to access it. After shelling out the cash, I may or may not have received an email that says my pool card had been found and turned in so now we have two. 

I may or may not have realized my littles are millionaires, in Legos.