Nothing went right!

Today was suppose to be a great, fun, neat day with my family. My great Uncle was in Redding visiting and we were going to a big Coulter family get together. I was excited to get to see so many family members I had not seen in years!! I was excited to take my kids and have them meet everyone. And I was excited to see my mom and give her the gift I had been working really hard on for her. It was gonna be a GREAT day!!
It all started to unravel yesterday when I went to save the slide show I had worked on for my mom. I went to make the dvd and NOPE the program was not gonna do it. I tried EVERYTHING but it was just NOT gonna work. But I kept a positive out look. I could just take my computer and let her see in on there and then send her the dvd later.
Then this morning I got up and started to get everything packed we would need for the trip to Redding. We did a quick run up town for some mother's day things for church tomorrow, and things seemed to be going as planned. After getting home, Dan and Hannah ran up town to get things they said they needed for tomorrow and I did the last few things to get us ready to go. They came home and that is when things went down hill. The battery light came on in the car and Dan had to figure it out before we could leave. So I got the kids ready and was excited, because the kids looked extra cute and I had just lost enough weight to fit in my smaller jeans!!! I felt good and was ready to get out of this house!
BUT that is not what happened. The alternator was shot and the trip was off. It was a bummer. I really wanted to see my family. So I put the kids down for a nap and Dan went to try and fix the car. After the kids got up, Dan had not been able to get his mom her gift yet, so while he worked, I put the kids in the stroller and set out to find my MIL a gift. Now she is hard to buy for, not sure just what to get her. Once I finally found her a gift, and was hot and sweaty and that "looking good in my jeans" feeling had left for good, we walked back home. Which is when we found out that daddy needed a different tool and was gonna walk to Kmart to get it. So I headed in to make dinner.
I was in the kitchen for just a few moments when I got a bad feeling...not sure what it was, but I knew to check the kids. And that is when I saw my little girl standing in a very weird position. She has been potty trained and is very good about telling me when she needs to go, but guess today was different. I asked her what was wrong and she started to pee...right there on my floor. So I jumped the kiddie gate and scooped her up and headed to the bathroom. Where I started to pull off her pants and discovered a she had done a little more than pee her pants!!!! OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH it smelled so bad!!! I told her to stay right there and I would be right back (big mistake). I ran and got a wash cloth, and when I came back.....it was sooooooooooo gross. She had crawled up onto the toilet, and gotten her shorts and panties off.....BY KICKING HER LEGS AS HARD AS SHE COULD!!!!!!! Yep POOP EVERYWHERE!!! On the floor the walls the toilet....oh man. Hannah is a cute little thing, but it is amazing how fast the cuteness can fade in a situation like this!!! SO instead of dinner...we did BATH time!!!!!!! I cleaned up and then gave both the kids a bath. Of course Ben decided to play with momma and daddy's soap...(a no no) and got it in his eyes. This was just too much for Ben so the WHOLE time the kids were in the bath, there was the crying from Ben. At one point when I thought I was gonna lose it, I started to sing, and I just kept singing. Over the crying and the splashing and the smell that was stuck in my nose. The kids calmed down, and so did I. It got us relaxed enough to finish up. I just wanted to go to bed at this point and start again!!! I FINALLY got to head back into the kitchen to make dinner. By that time Dan was back and working on the car again. I started to run out there and complain to him about "what HIS daughter had done"...but then I thought that HIS day has been a bummer too!!! And that he was out there saving us money by fixing the car himself. So I thought I would make him a glass of tea!!! OF COURSE the tea was gone, so I had to make some more up. So I did, I made it up and filled a glass for him. I put the tea container (the kind with a spout at the bottom) in the fridge and took the glass out to him. Then came back in to feed the kids. I opened the fridge and ........tea was EVERYWHERE!!!!! The spout was open!!! SOOOOOOO after cleaning the tea up I finally fed the kids. They had pizza and yogo bites. This ended by mom on the floor picking up all the yogo bites that Ben had spilled.
So today, the day before mother's day, nothing went as planned. But it was still great to be a mom today, and I am praying that tomorrow goes better, or at least has less poop!! These days come, but it is great to have blessings mixed in with the hard parts. It is now a little less than an hour before bed time and I am hoping things go well!!! :)