The 12 hours before one of the most integral days in our lives…

…you know, that one day when things just have to go smoothly and you’ve done everything you can to make it happen:

The kids are in school and you have your wonderful friends picking them up for play dates afterward.

You’ve been working around-the-clock so as to ensure you can block off the entire day for this important event.

Then–

You get minimal sleep because your son (who has not had night terrors in months) chooses that very night to have a recurrence.

You hear an urgent meowing in the morning and find out your husband accidentally locked Fat Kitty in the spare room. And the poor thing relieved himself on your favorite laptop bag & framed picture.

Your daughter, who had the stomach flu on Tuesday but had made a full recovery on Wednesday, woke up with stomach pain. And then diarrhea. After multiple accidents, your husband attempts to give her some medicine (and made the mistake to try to teach her to swallow a pill for the first time), which resulted in a freaked-out daughter who refused to go to school and an even more hysterical mother who packed an extra change of clothes and booted her out the door.

Ever had one of those days?!