How was my night last night?...Let's just say Lesson learned!

Warning......don't look if you have a weak stomach, motherhood is NOT for wimps!!

I don't want my blog to come across as a perfect peachy life of nothing but wonderfulness, this is the real life of the Allreds. We take the good with the bad and want to remember both!

Last night Aaric had run in from work, changed his clothes and ran back out the door to a stake leadership meeting so I thought I'd let the kids have some fun. They thought it was so cool that I was letting them watch a movie in my bed, and were thrilled when I told them I would get them all a sipper of chocolate milk. They were giggling and all excited all lined up together with their drinks and pillows and bears. I left such a perfect fun moment to get some things done, and I came back to this!!! Are you kidding me?

Avery had thrown up all over my bed...she was standing there saying "I throw up, I throw up" I went to pick her up and BOOM there she goes again...this time ALL over me and the carpet and the dresser, and all the pillows from my bedding that I had stacked next to it! With one more good hurl onto my pants I finally just grabbed her and made a run for the bathroom. Oh the joys of motherhood. I quizzed the older kids about the episode that I didn't see. Avery did have a cough but wasn't really that sick. She's done this before by just chugging it too fast.......

Then in the mess I saw a big slimy round thing and asked Brecken what it was. She simply said " oh that's a crabby patty I gave Avery from my backpack"

I said, "A CRABBY PATTY...sick, Brecken you have to ask me before you give her any candy okay, especially if it's from school."

I was scrubbing the carpet and almost throwing up because of the real "throw up" smell and my mind got running here's what I was thinking:

"oh seriously it's 9:00. By now the kids should be in bed, I wish Aaric was home helping me with this, shouldn't I have some sort of entitlement to a guardian angel when my husband is gone for church meetings every single night of the week? My nights should be calm, collected, and completely watched over because of our sacrifice for the church. But here I am all alone, 3 kids running around, no husband, covered in throw up. Something is wrong with this picture."

Then Bam....The spirit hit me so strong I couldn't believe it. Here I was complaining about having no guardian angel to keep my home perfectly content, when really that very gaurdian angel was probably the one that saved my 2 year old from choking to death when I wasn't in the room. DUH how could I be so negative? How could I be having this pitty party for myself right now? I have no idea what exactly happened but suddenly I was very very thankful to be cleaning up throw up and not on my way to the ER with my child turning blue!! I had to hit my knees and thank a loving Father in Heaven who taught me a good lesson last night. oh ya and thankful for my rainbow vacuum system, what would I do without it!