Too many kids and I don't know what to do

So 5 is it-- the number of kids that is too many for me to handle. I am not able to just stay in bed and cuddle my sweet Robert. No, he is often left alone upstairs in bed while I deal with/parent/keep alive the other children. If not alone in bed then he is very often in the car because we have so many places to be. After I had Meg I basically stayed in bed with her for like 3 weeks. Not the case now.

Thursday I took Jack to school only to find out upon arrival that school was delayed for two hours due to fog. :(  Tigran had a vet appt. that morning as well because he keeps peeing in the house!!!  At first we thought it was because he was getting old but in the last 7 days he has peed in the house 3 times!!!! Pete dropped Tigran off at the vet because I am not able to control dog dog at the vet, and then he came home so I could take Jack back to school. Then we had a couple hours of not being in the car before the vet said I could pick up Tigran- whether or not he has a bladder infection is still unclear at this point, but they did give us antibiotics to use until we get the results of his urine culture. As soon as I got back with Tigran I had to turn around and take Luke to his doctor appointment. One hour back at home, and then time to pick Jack up from school. Plus, that evening Jack had Tae Kwon Do. Now he is in the higher belt rank class so he meets later, and the time is pretty inconvenient since I have other children I have to put in bed. Pete has been catching up on sleep this week so he is here, but not very helpful. I was able to leave the kids here with him while I dropped Jack off, but I had to drive back home to put them in bed before driving back to pick up Jack. Hopefully, when Pete is more able to help it won't be so crazy, and he can just take Jack. I was so tired that my big plans for watching tv in bed were not to be. After about 20 minutes I was asleep. Of course, this was the night little Robert decided that from 2:30-4:30 he would be awake and unable to fall back asleep.

Friday was also a lot of car. No delayed school today, and I did check my email before even getting out of bed. I was a little slow in getting up and this combined with Jack always being slow when getting ready for school =he was late. Sadly, he is late more often than I care to admit, but today is Friday and that means Mass as soon as they get to school, and this Friday his class was in charge of Mass which means they are supposed to be the first ones in the church. Oh, and to top it off I remembered half way to the school that I was supposed to pack his lunch but totally didn't. This meant a couple different things for me. I had to go to the store. We were out of basically everything. I had been waiting for the infant insert I ordered for my Ergo to arrive because I can't even imagine going grocery shopping with a baby and my not wearing that baby. I don't even know how I would do it; especially with Meg. Now I really had no choice if Jack was going to eat lunch. I decided Robert would have to go in the Ergo without the insert, and I would just have to constantly check on him to make sure he was ok. So that is what we did. Then home, unload groceries, pack lunch, drive it to the school, get back in time to make lunch for Luke, make sure he is ready for pre-school, take him to school, clean up a little so that I don't trip or so Meg stops tripping every time she walks anywhere, a small amount of down time, and then time to pick up Luke and Jack. Did you notice that no where in there did I mention sit in bed and snuggle a baby? Poor kid.

Today I decided that I needed a beer, but sadly I didn't even get to sit down to enjoy it. I had to drink my Stella while standing up and doing about a hundred things for all the kids. If I waited to drink it once the kids were in bed then it would be late and I would be in bed myself, so I had to squeeze it in. So 5 kids is too many. I don't get to just sit down, I get so tired that by the end of the day I just want to go to bed, I don't shower everyday and for me this is a big deal, I have always showered every day as part of my calming down time, even if I had to put a kid in there with me. I get done what I need to get done, eventually, and not much else. It is going to take some getting used to.

Ok pictures:

Meg growls, she growls all the time, now she even makes the growl face all the time. I had to share.

Jack is now a purple belt, which means he is in the higher level class.

It was nice enough to go outside the other day so Thomas asked that I take a picture of him running.

Guess I need some photos of Luke all by himself.

Group shot of the 4 youngest. See Meg even growled for this picture.

Sweet baby asleep. Pete said that Robert has already rolled front to back. I noticed this too but thought surely not. Now I am going to have to actually set up the pack and play for nap time.