Happy Birthday, Elliebear!/Happy Mother's Day!

I am awake at 3:20 AM with an extreme headache and my shoulders are amazingly tense. I took a blood pressure pill, a pain pill and an muscle relaxer. That's how bad it is. I had an emotional moment earlier. I don't know what that was about because I had a great day on Saturday...
It's pouring down rain right now. Buckets. After a beautiful sunny day Saturday, hate that! But I guess rain is always needed for growth of some kind, right?
So today, I woke up early for some reason. Before 8 AM. Everyone else was still asleep. I let Elliebear, since today was her 1th birthday, spend the night with 2 of her girlfriends last night. She went to one of their softball games and I was to pick her up at noon. So, I laid in bed for a bit, couldn't get back to sleep no matter how hard I tried. Decided to get up and make breakfast- french toast, grits and bacon.
From there, did a few chores and then took everyone to the park to play. It was so nice out. We walked on the trail and the twins actually stayed on the trail and behaved! There's a pond as well as a lake at the park we went to. The girls all were at the edge of the pond water, checking out the algae and tadpoles and dragonflies and turtles and ducks. Bubba was keeping his distance and saying, "ewwww!" It was so funny. I can't wait for hubby to get here for some male bonding. My Bubba needs a brother. Pinky came down a side and flipped face first into the playground gravel. I don't know what that stuff is, little rocks, so her forehead is all banged up. But she got right back up. Big girl.
After the park, we went to McDonald's for lunch. It had an outdoor play land. So we ate and I let them play a bit more. Everyone was tuckered out. I took them home for naps and Elliebear and I went to the grocery store. I spent 200.00 on groceries. I had to restock some stuff since the chef will be home soon. And I am still not done. Need meat... I see a trip to SAMS in my future. Canned goods for a couple weeks for a family of 8, diapers, etc... I think I did a good job but I know he's gonna have some weird cravings so I am so curious about the first grocery bill when he shops. LOL. They have opened up a new store called ALDI right in our neighborhood. We have made plans to check it out because I have only heard good things about it.
I was talking to the hubby on the phone, while putting away groceries and making dinner. We had been on the phone off and on all day. Until I got into moments where I had to be torn away. It's always good to hear his voice, laugh with him... But for some reason, at that time, all the little ones were underfoot. I kept telling C and L to watch them so I could get the kitchen in order and finish dinner but they were doing a terrible job. Princess was trying to be a big helper by attempting to put tops on their sippy cups and she spilled the red fruit punch all over my white counter tops. And you know it stains for a few days. That was the last straw. You can't imagine how noisy it was or how many times I heard "Momma" during that time span while I was trying to super multi task. I lost it. Big huge tears and sobbing. I don't know if I was tired. I can for sure say I was overwhelmed. I was frustrated because the girls can be so lazy. That lasted for about 15 minutes. I regained my composure. Princess came and apologized and I did the same. I don't know what came over me. I luckily had let hubby go from the phone because there was way too much commotion to talk.
Elliebear didn't want a birthday cake. She already had her party back in April at the ice rink. I didn't want to do it this weekend originally because I was honestly expecting this to be hubby's first weekend home. Almost timed that one right. I am glad we got it out of the way though. It is Mother's Day weekend after all. I wouldn't have been in the mood. I saved one gift for her for her birthday. The rest she got at her party. She decided to have banana splits with Blue Bell Vanilla Bean ice cream, peanuts, chocolate and strawberry syrup and a cherry on top. Man, were they good! We all sang happy birthday to her and that was that.
My hubby was rooting for the basketball team that I hate most in the league. We kid each other about it all the time. It's great. I am a huge fan of our local team but they never make it past the first (once second) round. Looks like the Lakers may sweep the Jazz. UGH. He bet money on the game so I said I'd root for them otherwise it'd be like shooting myself in the foot. They won by 1 point. How disappointing that must have been for the Jazz. An understatement, I'm sure.
He keeps saying he will convert me into a Lakers fan... I don't see it happening as long as Kobe Bryant is on the team. I loathe him.
Anyway, I gave up on all chores as my head was pounding. I gave the kids a bath and put them and myself to bed. And here we are...
I got a huge bouquet of roses delivered to me on Thursday at work for mother's day from Stephen (on the kid's behalf.) They were beautiful! Easiest the best roses I have ever received. Great job, Cannon Florists! The little ones all made me gifts at daycare too. I am going to open them tomorrow since they are actually gift wrapped. I love my kid's daycare so much. By the way, while I was gone last week, the owner told me Bubba was the only one crying for me. Everyone else seemed to be OK with me being gone. My baby boy missed me... All of them were happy to see me return. I could genuinely feel it. Bruiser fell asleep on my chest that first night after telling me earlier in the evening, "OK Momma! You love me! Now that's enough!" when I was oohing and aahing about seeing her after a week. She's 3 going on 30.
Speaking of going on 30-something... I will be 36 in just a couple of weeks. Wow. Where did the time go? There's so much I wanted to have accomplished by 35 and it is slow but sure but not quite done. It's OK. I am blessed regardless. I don't know what I want to do for Mother's Day. On Friday, everyone but Ellie, went to a Chinese buffet for dinner. Maybe I will go out to eat again. I don't know if I want to cook, the way I feel. Maybe Golden Corral or Ryan's. Hmmm...
I think I will end this post now. It's getting rather long... I do need to finish details my trip. So I will start another... I have been so busy getting back into the swing of things since being home, I haven't had a chance to blog.