Chapter 2: Mommy needs a Time out and Horrible Mommy Moment 2008.....
When we last left off, we were on a Mears bus with no movie, heading to the resorts. First stop: Wilderness Lodge! Bonus. We piled off of the bus and headed over to check in.
We were quickly greeted by a check-in-person (Or whatever that title is), and checked into our room...which was ready. SWEET. No need to take an elevator or stairs to our room, we were on the main lobby level!
A quick walk past the elevators, and 50 feet from the doors to the walkway to the busses, and we arrived at room 2116....our home base for the next week.
We walked in, dropped the bags, and I announced that I was going to take some pics before we destroyed the room....
From the Door:
This was a common sight....note, we had been in our room for about TWO MINUTES.
Buzz cant complain about the lack of flat screens any more....
Bunk beds
The kids decided, since Daddy was asleep and all, to have a huge argument over who got the top bunk the first night. I got them to stop fighting by flipping a coin. Brianna won, so Spencer threw a fit. Then Brianna started screamng at him to stop crying. I was running ragged trying to get them to stop screaming while simultaneously trying to start unpacking the carry-ons when the hitting started.
I freaked, screamed at them to cut it out, woke HHBG up, and announced that I needed a time out. I grabbed my iPod and stormed out to the patio.
While I was outside stewing, HHBG gave the kids fruit snacks and went back to sleep.
I came back in to fussy, grumpy kids. I decided we needed to get some food, so we went off in search of Roaring Fork (the CS at WL)...We were ALL STILL VERY GRUMPY.
We got to Roaring Fork, and the kids decided what they wanted to eat: Uncrustable with puding and grapes for Spencer, Chicken nuggets with grapes and Jello for Brianna. I got a turkey and brie sandwich for HHBG and the grilled chicken salad for myself. We also got water and chocolate milk, and planed to get soda for the adults in our refillable mugs.
While I was waiting in line for food to be prepared (2 separate lines), the kids were running around the restaurant. My refrains of stop running....calm down....stand still....come back here....dont touch that....I said to stop running....dont climb on that!....ETC were heard by all. I was losing it fast...
Then it happened. The
HORRIBLE MOMMY MOMENT OF APRIL 2008......
I had finally paid for our food, and had gotten the refillable mugs. As I turned to get the kids together so we could carry everything back to the room, Brianna climbed up on the fruit stand by the register and leaped off, smacking into a lady with her tray, into me, and into the counter where you put the trays, nearly knocking over all of our food from our tray, and nearly killing herself.
I was so angry in the rush of adrenaline after thinking she was going to kill herself (her head came THIS CLOSE to smacking the counter while she was in flight), I smacked her in the arm. It wasnt hard, but I hit it just right to make that loud ringing SMACK noise that I swear echoed through the now silent restaurant.

She looked at me in shock for a minute, then started to cry.
I hustled everyone over to the table, and started to pack all of our food up to bring upstairs. I also pulled Brianna onto my lap and explained to her WHY she got smacked, and told her that what she had done was dangeros. I also apologised for scaring her, and told her that was all of the punishment, and she wasnt in any more trouble, I was just explaning why she had gotten in trouble in the first place. She calmed down pretty quickly, and we all made our way back to the room to await the security I was sure had been called.....
We woke up HHBG, and I had HIM walk back to RF to fill our mugs (I was too embarrassed to show my face there for a while). He did that, and we all had lunch and our
first ever exposure to Stacy...who the kids loved and I got sick of after 30 minutes.....
Coming Soon: We find the Pool and a Nap is had by all!!