Nothing broke...and nobody cried!

Today, I had a glimpse of what it's like to be a mom!  All of you moms out there will probably laugh at this, but I don't care.  What I did today was a first for me, and I'm so glad that we all survived!

I babysat Emily, Rebekah, and George today while Craig and Robin went to a funeral.  Since tomorrow is the Loveland Opera Theatre Gala, I had a ton to do at work this afternoon.  So, at noon I piled the kids in the car and headed for Loveland.

(I should point out right now that I have only once, that I recall, taken all 3 kids in the car somewhere.  We went to McDonalds once and we all survived that.)

Our first stop was my house to pick up my computer.  Got the kids out of the car.  They came inside to say hi to the birds.  George rearranged Melissa's candles on the coffee table.  Nothing broke.  Nobody cried.

Next we went to my boss's house so I could drop off one thing and pick up another thing.  I left the kids in the car with the door open because I was inside for literally one minute.  (Emily even commented that I was really fast.)  Nobody cried.

Off we went to Art of the Rockies to pick up easels.  This was the place I was most worried about.   There are SO MANY THINGS that could have gone wrong in there.  Luckily, we instituted a strict NO TOUCHIE policy right off.  And I carried George most of the time.  Emily and Bekah were very helpful with the carrying of the smaller easels!  And they also discovered the Thomas Kincade Disney Fine Art painting of Cinderella, so that basically trumped everything else in the store.  So nothing broke...and nobody cried!

We managed to get all the easels in the car without breaking any of them.  Emily had to crawl under some of them to get to her car seat.  (Yes, she could have gone in the other door, but she was already halfway there before I realized what she was doing!)  We then waited about 10 minutes to pull out onto Lincoln.  Special thanks to the guy who let me in.  Traffic was INSANE!!!  (The protesters at the museum half a block away weren't helping the traffic flow, by the way.)

We got to Mr. Neats (Yes, it's not Mr. Neats anymore, but that's what we still call it.  Does it have an official name from the City now?  I have no idea.)  We had to park down the street, so it was a little bit of a hassle to get all of the easels, all of the kids, and all of our other stuff into the building.  But we did it!  Thank heavens for the stroller.  Otherwise, George might have wandered off.  But nothing broke, nothing got lost, and nobody cried!

I got the kids settled in a back corner and they watched a movie on my computer.  The fruit snacks from Grandma were then passed out.  They had definitely earned them!!  Once they were set, I got to work.  They did okay.  I had to corral George a couple of times.  And we had one potty run.  But they did really well until Craig and Robin came!  Here's a picture of  my little helpers:

We all survived!  I'm so proud of the kids for being good and being good helpers!  It was a fun day!  And nothing broke.  And nobody cried!