Giving up Chocolate: Day Thirteen

Patrick leaves and the chocolate disappears...I wonder if there's a correlation there?  Patrick left this morning to drive to New York and install a staircase with his boss.  Leaving me here alone with the three crazies...who all felt the need to wake up at 6am today.  Man did that suck.  Anyway, no chocolate today, though Isabelle did request brownies for dessert, but I said no.   The reason being (I mean aside from the no chocolate thing) that Patrick thoughtfully bought us some of those ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls to have today.  When he bought them he forgot he was leaving at the crack of dawn and thus wouldn't get any.  His plan was to make them for breakfast.  I made them for lunch.  ;)  The kids also had tomato soup, so I'm not that bad...they each had one roll, Henry had half and I had four and a half...I was only going to have one, it just didn't work out that way.  Anyway I saved two for the kids to have for dessert this evening, but when James and I got up from our naps I found only an empty bag.  Isabelle thoughtfully drew a picture to tell me what happened....in it she's taking a roll out of a bag with two rolls inside...then she's taking a roll out of a bag with only one inside.  So James didn't get another one.  Poor baby.  So I guess today was a success on the chocolate front, but a fail in the battle of the bulge, if you know what I mean. ;)

Side note:  had all three kids by myself at church today.  Man did that suck.  I don't know how mom did it with the five of us...and then they kept calling her to be the Sacrament Meeting chorister!  I would have been really mad/annoyed/etc...if they did that.  I would have said; "don't you see me sitting alone with my five kids?  Do you really think they can behave by themselves?"  But I never remember he complaining, so I guess she was okay with it.  Of course this is probably one of the reasons we always sat on the second row.  So yeah, anyway I was ready to go sit out in the foyer after trying to muffle James shrieks during the sacrament prayer, but as we were getting ready to leave my nice visiting teacher came and sat by us and blocked the kids in on the other end of the row so they couldn't get out.  So after finding some crayons and paper, they weren't so bad after that.  Then on the way to primary (while juggling car seat (with baby), board, easel, church bag, diaper bag, tape, 4 year old, and toddler) my friend stopped me in the hall and offered to take Henry.  I'm not sure if she meant right then or for the rest of church but I assumed the rest of church as she took him and walked off.  That was very nice as I was planning to just let him crawl around bugging people in primary, which probably wouldn't have worked out so well.  Hopefully Patrick will be back by next week (he should be) and I won't have to do that again for awhile...though he said it sounds like they're going to be going back at least two or three more times.  I told him he should take me with him one time.  Or better yet, I should go somewhere for a week and he should watch the kids.  Who wants to come?  I'm not sure where we'll go but there will be no babies!  We'd better do it soon though before another one finds it's way into my uterus (I don't know how they keep getting in there...)  So any takers?