One hectic night...

Oh my... there are no words to describe. Last night I had so much to do and hardly got any of it got done. Cynthia was doing homework and yells to me from the office, "why isn't the external hard drive working?". My stomach immediately drops. We have everything important on our external hard drive. After an hour of trying to find out what the heck, it turns out that our computer recognizes that something is connected to it but tells me that it won't work because "the device has malfuntioned...". It then continues to tell us that we need a replacement. I was so upset! Not to mention that Cynthia had a school project on there that she had been working on for months, due tomorrow, and if it wasn't recovered she would have to start all over again. Needless to say, that put me in a pretty bad mood. On top of it, Jaxton decided that today was the day he wasn't going to listen to anyone... He's throwing things in the house and knocking things over, talking back, throwing tantrums... and he's learned to lie. We were in time-out like a million times. I finally yelled at him and resorted to giving an early bedtime as a punishment. I always swore to myself that I would never say "if you don't be good, you're going to bed!" The last thing I need is for him to think that bedtime means he's in trouble. Well, I did it. I did something that I said I would never do... and there was no bedtime story either. And there was a gigantic tempertantrum because of it. In the midst of my whole night, Kayla decided that her new "thing" is not drinking her bottle unless I hold her. Since when did she become so picky? I just about lost my mind by the time I went to bed.
Luckily, after all night of fiddling with it and having a friend come take a look, we got the hard drive working again. Now I just hope it stays working properly. Whewww... what a night. Today is a new day.