What's On My Happy List?

Have to say this morning did not make my happy list.

It's been the oddest morning ever.

It began with Kate waking up at the unearthly 5:00 o'clock hour.

Then in the still of the morn as I was trying to get Kate to go back down, Kyleigh's closet racks completely came crashing down into this mound of mayhem. 
The picture doesn't do the mess justice. 

{Of course this WOULD happen just after we recently organized the dang thing.} 

More on the closet catastrophe later.

                                                            

Baby had her overnight diaper explode from the inside out. literally. Never seen that before.

Brie woke up and felt like she was going to throw up...

And then... as we were getting ready for church a real emergency occurred. I myself was half dressed and in the loo, {I have such great timing} when grandma tells us she has called 911 for grandpa, who was having severe chest pains and had collapsed upstairs. 
Paramedics came and took him in the ambulance to the hospital. 

Hubby was in another ward speaking at the time so I couldn't reach him to tell him about his dad until he was done. {That was a little un nerving not knowing the serious of the situation.} Once he was done, we left the girls with the baby at church and we rushed to the hospital. We spent some time in the ER. 

My sister in law who lives close by had taken my mother in law to the hospital. She had left the kids with her husband, who is recuperating from a leg injury he received at his soccer game yesterday. While she was gone, her 5 month old baby who was in its car seat on the kitchen table....toppled to the floor. Oh my!  

Gratefully, both baby and grandpa are alive. 

They ran some tests on grandpa. His high level of enzymes indicate he probably had a heart attack last night when he was also having pain {unbeknownst to us}and then possibly another heart attack this morning. That would be three within a year, as he had one last April. 
{um...not good} 
After a night in the hospital, more tests will be run tomorrow and hopefully we will know more.   

And then if that ain't enough, another minor mishap occurred when I slammed my finger in the dishwasher cleaning up after our family lunch. Ouch!

There is certainly some bad karma going on here within the family today. 

                             

We are locking the doors and staying inside! 

Now back to the closet chaos..... 

With Kyleigh's side of the closet crashing down this morn... and Emma's still fully intact, didn't help our case in making Dad change his opinion about Kyleigh having too many clothes. haha Ever since six weeks into the new school year when Kyleigh declared she hadn't worn the same outfit once, Dad has been insistent that she has too many clothes. And then to add more fuel to his fire....a few weeks ago she comes home and tells us she was nominated at school for their schools version of America's next top model by the yearbook staff.  Hilarious!

Yep, she loves clothes, no doubt there, but in her defense, she really doesn't have an extreme amount. Ya know, just a typical teenage girl collection. ;) 

That, and the fact that she has a knack for mixing and matching to where she isn't wearing the same ensemble too often. 

Plus she shares with Emma too.  

Which leads perfectly into my next story.

As I made mention in my Christmas Eve post, there was a little bit of drama between these two on Christmas Eve morn. {of all days?} Made even stranger by the fact that they really don't fight like this hardly at all.  

I {once again with my perfect timing} was showering and missed all of the action.

Apparently, a heated verbal argument began over which side of the closet a particular sweater, that they share, was too be hung. 

Like seriously? 

 Dad went in to tell them that this little tiff needed to end....like NOW. 

Even after his warning, the arguing still continued with Emma ending up in tears.

 Dad {uncharacteristically} lost it. 

He was mad! 

He ordered those two to get dressed pronto. He then proceeded to march them outside where not only did they sweep out the garage, but cleared the street gutter in front of the house of any dead leaves & garbage as well as the basement stairwell. 

{what a sight to behold}

IT WAS kinda funny seeing those two working together under the circumstances. 

Then he made them come inside and work for me....Scrubbing under the stove top burners, the shower and other parts of the bathroom. 

{Needless to say we don't put up with much crap around here.}

 And I think they learned their lesson. haha

We are in the middle of a long weekend due to the Martin Luther King holiday tomorrow. Just as we were gett'in back into the routine they are out of school again. This time for two days. Three for B. Olivia. 

But I'm not complaining. 

We started celebrating on Friday by making the cutest winter cake. 

Do you see baby Kate?