Really.

Who's seen the SNL Weekend Update with the "really???" skit? They show do outrageous stories and follow it with a ".....Really.?" It's actually pretty funny. Lately- I've been mentally saying that word, following an incident. Sometimes even out loud.
Here's a few examples....

1.) We're very close to the end of potty training. Maybe I'm being optimistic. Maybe we're just in the middle. But we're past the beginning, so I'm grateful for that. She pees in the potty all day and wears underwear...but I still have to give her a candy for going, or she refuses to go. She finally tells when she needs to go.....but pooping is another story. She gets really nervous to poop in the potty, so she holds it for several days. Each nap time I think...."this is going to be it..." and with several incidents, prior to this....I walk in and get smacked in the face by the smell of baby feces. The lights are on and she is walking around with a naked bum smeared with poop. Where is the poop, you ask? I search everywhere.....past the dozens of dirty wipes that she attempted to clean herself with, past the books she had pulled off the shelf, behind the curtains, under the bed, where could it be? Finally I checked her drawers. There, in her pants drawer....she had returned the poopy pullup inside of the pants back to the pants' original home.
Realllly.?

2.) I was putting all the groceries away in a my newly organized pantry. I'd been trying extra hard to keep things clean and orderly, despite the toddler and boys swimming against my current. I was keeping a sack of potatoes on the floor of the pantry to grow "eyes" so I could plant them in the garden. I was sweeping the kitchen floor and moved everything out of the pantry to sweep as well. I lifted the bag of potatoes to find probably 1/4 cup of mouse poop on the floor. Ratatouille and his fam must have stopped by....(are staying?) Do you know my husband's fear of mice?
Really.?

3.) Tee ball game- 2 separate cars. Dad has to drive over from work. Mom has all 3 kids and all their gear. First year playing....don't know the parking situation. I tried to read the signs but some were blocked by trees. I questioned this one particular spot, but the sign didn't seem to exclude it so I went for it. Game, heat, chasing toddler, "Watch the ball!" "Put your helmet back on!" "Good job, you got a (small) piece of it!" ......walk back to the car. "what's for dinner?" "I'm hot." "can I have a drink? Libby took mine..." Bam. Ticket on the windshield. $40? You gotta be kidding me! Drive past Jer's car (in a different area) and bam. Ticket on his too. $40.
RRReally.
Tball ended up costing more than anticipated.

4.)Pumpkin patch season was around the corner. Amazon local had a great deal- buy one, get one free ticket. and- free entrance into the corn maze. Told everyone about it that day. Didn't get around to the computer myself until 10pm that night. Began purchasing them and realized I had bought them on 2 different days. (1 set for T-Th, other for Fr-Sat.) Annoyed by that, I didn't print out vouchers, planning to call the office the next day. several days later got around to calling and explaining my situation. They couldn't do anything- they said to call the Farm themselves. So I called, and planned email and phone tag with the rep. at the Farm. Finally caught her and closed my front door to try and get quiet while I was on the phone (hearing screaming from inside the house...) almost to the end of our conversation and to a resolution, when the call was disconnected. Gave up. Thought- "I'll just take the tickets I have and pay the difference." Our printer was acting up and we were in the process of hooking up another one, so I still didn't print out the vouchers. Pumpkin Patch day arrived and 5 minutes before we were supposed to leave- I asked Jer to print them out so we'd have them. They were gone. Do they erase if you don't print them? ......speechless. out the money for them and out the money for full price tickets after ALL THAT WORK!
(deep breath. )
Really.?
I don't know if I have it in me to demand my money back. I'm so fed up with that scenario.

5.) Scrap booking night. I couldn't wait to be with friends, get my creative outlet on, use my cricut, that I rarely have a chance to......I had printed all my pictures and had everything packed in my rolling scrap booking case. I had just taken the pics out that day and was doing something with them. Then while at my friend's house.... I was ready to get started. Began pulling everything out......where are the pictures? They were in here....I know I put them ....right .....(gasp) I took them out! brutal.
Just tried to do what I could without them. Furious that I lost my whole opportunity to get it done....from a simple mistake. Got home and the next morning I was pulling out my pic-less pages and I was getting out some other things....found my pictures in the case....in the new safe pocket that I carefully stored them in. They were there all along.
Hm. really.?

Really.? A great response to an incredibly frustrating incident. And I often do a "Jim" (from The Office) stare with it. As if the camera is taping my hilarious life and someone else can chuckle with me.