Who really needs that cup of coffee in the morning to wake up?
For some reason, with an office job, I’m more disciplined about writing my entries at night to publish during the day. I think it’s because I always think I’ll have time to write an entry during the day when I’m home with the kids, but I know I won’t when I have to work. So, the entry below this one is the one I had set to publish this morning. Normally – I wouldn’t have another one so soon – but my morning started off SO AWESOME…I just had to hurry and tell you about it.
I woke up at 5am this morning. Which is late for my new Working Mom schedule because I have to get the kids up at 5:45am. I need more than 45 minutes to get everything else (including myself) ready. When I realized it was 5am, I thought Oh, well. No shower this morning. Hair goes in a bun.
I exited my bedroom to let the dogs out and was greeted with the most awesome discovery! One of the dogs had diarrhea all over the dining room carpet. And when I say “all over” – I’m not exaggerating. I mean, they didn’t actually move the furniture and poop in those spots too. But – any spot without furniture? Was pooped on.
It’s funny. Well – not the dog poop on the carpet – that’s not funny. But it’s funny that I didn’t even miss a beat. I just let the dogs out, pushed the “brew” button on the coffee maker, and grabbed the Resolve and paper towels. After 20 minutes and a bag full of poop-soaked paper towels, I went and got the carpet cleaner and steam-cleaned the dining room to make sure it got really clean. After I was done with Poop Patrol, I then finally made my first cup of coffee! This is progress for me. Normally I would have needed that coffee FIRST. I think having two kids under three has made me a more durable mother. I seem to tolerate a lot more with a lot less.
So…I started my day shampooing dog shit out of my dining room carpet. If that doesn’t say, “Welcome back to being a Working Mom!” – I don’t know what does.
Oh man, that sucks! I have a dog who will get diarrhea from time to time.. It’s a GREAT DANE and he has more Poop Volume than anyone I know, including humans. And I distinctly remember waking up to a huge poopy mess in my house when the hubby was out of town and I sat in the floor scrubbing (and crying) while trying to get it cleaned up so that I could make it to work on time. So… I admire your great attitude towards this LOL
And isn’t it Murphy’s Law that says if you wake up late for work then there is guaranteed to be at least ONE other thing that will slow you down on that same morning?
The only thing worse than poop everywhere is poop everywhere IN THE MORNING. Good thing you have a steam cleaner. I think, like Candace, I would’ve been crying as I scrubbed.
I know this will sound not so nice, but it is meant as a compliment in my warped mind. I find it rather amusing that you refer to a poop filled morning as awesome.
Wow, what a morning. I can’t believe you held it together – I would have been yelling and throwing things. This is why I don’t have dogs.
And this is why I refuse to get any pets until the kids are in college.
Holy cats (and dogs)! Gross!
Zoot, you are a greater woman than I.
Thanks for the laugh this morning… suddenly my rushing working-mom morning doesn’t seem so bad. At least I didn’t have to scrub shit at 5am!!
Hope the rest of the day is great.
It must be a 5 am, dog crap all over the carpet morning for everyone cause that is how I woke up too.
Oh, but what really woke me up was the smelly spiders in my dream. Turns out, the smell was real. The spiders, well, not so much.
lol
I’m pretty sure I would have called into work. Even if it was only my second day back, lol
And my dog only weighs 10 pounds, at most
woo hoo, go zoot!
Maybe it was the good Lord’s way of showing you that you could handle anything that was going to come your way today ’cause nothing’s worse than doggy diarrhea first thing in the morning.
um. ew.
dude – you? are amazing. I had a morning like that a few weeks ago, and not only did I totally loose MY shit (figurativly, of course) but it RUINED MY ENTIRE DAY. AND!! I stay at home, AND I only have one kid. Zoot – I aim to be a calmer person, like you.
Please tell me there was at least a bit of cussing on your part! I would flip if I woke up to that. Was MrZ gone already? You’re an awesome wife if you cleaned it up so he wouldn’t have to get up. All poop not in toilets or diapers is my husbands job. I’m nice like that.
Ick! What a morning! Somehow, I deal with children’s poop a lot better than I deal with dogs’ poop.
What a way to start the day. Personally, I’d stick with coffee…:)
Oh my–not only did you forgo shampooing your OWN hair, but you instead shampooed poop out of the carpet? You’re a bigger (wo)man than I am, for sure!
I hope your day has improved significantly.
Isn’t life grand? Just when you think you have it figured out……whamo.
I really think there’s nothing in the world that makes me feel better than reading other people’s struggles with their pets. It’s like “my God, I’m NOT the only person who has a dog who refuses to put her dainty paws on the grass only to take a big shit on the door mat in the hallway.”
Why do we love them so?
Maybe its the season?? I dont have dogs, but my cat has been really sick lately. It comes out BOTH ENDS!
But i hate cleaning it up, and it makes me want to vomit. GAH!
At least your day started so crappily (no pun intended) that you know it just has to get better.
I always feel better as long as the promise of coffee is in the air.
So I know I am a late commenter here, but my dog recently developed a bladder infection and my spray-on Resolve just isn’t cutting it for the accidents on the carpet. What kind of steam cleaner do you use on your carpet? Would you buy the same one again? Can I just waltz into Target (the closest one is about 20 miles away and not on my route to anywhere) or another superstore type place and buy one?