It's half past noon and my mug of coffee is still seven-eighths full. 🙄 It's hard to determine causation, but I'm certain there is a correlation between this rough day and my undrunk cup o' joe.
Parenting wins today:
- I ate an entire donut without hiding in a closet and nobody bothered me for a bite.
- 3 out of 3 babies are asleep at this exact moment. That could change in the blink of an eye, so I'm sitting here not blinking.
- When the walls felt like they were ringing with too much yelling, we escaped under the wide, wide sky which was big enough to hold all of us and give us a few moments of peace (and even laughter!).
Parenting losses:
- One child pulled a handful of hair out of her head (while screaming) upon being told she would need to wait to have her hair redone in a different style. How many times do I have to explain that people eating comes before hair looking perfect? Our priorities are very different. Looking back, I realize that it was probably less about her needing her hair done and more about her needing to feel important, noticed. But there is zero time for me to realize that and address the real issue before the hair is already out of her precious little head and my ear drums are stinging!!
- Baby won't eat if there is anything else remotely interesting to hear or look at. Big Sisters won't keep quiet. Why is it so impossible to get people fed around here?
- One child screamed the whole way home from the park. You would think I would recognize and respect signs of tiredness and get them to bed before they hit their breaking points. Why does one day of missed naps wreak so much havoc on the rest of the week?!
- One child rode home from the park naked because she was soaked - still not sure whether from pee or rain water on the slide, don't really plan on trying to find out. And no, this was not the cause of the screaming. Different children.
- One child purposefully dumped her cup with her daily medicine in it. When asked how many times she needed to be told that cups are for drinking and not for dumping, she asked (with wide, innocent eyes) "no dump cup?" FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME, NO! I know you know this. Please tell me you know this. I am going to go insane repeating things over and over and over and over and over (help me, I'm stuck) and over and over and over! Or maybe I already am? Insanity: noun. repeating the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Yep. I am insane.
Here's hoping we can all have a big snuggle fest after they wake up from their naps (yes, they're all still sleeping!!) 😮 I really do love being a mom. But some days.... yikes.
Parenting wins today:
- I ate an entire donut without hiding in a closet and nobody bothered me for a bite.
- 3 out of 3 babies are asleep at this exact moment. That could change in the blink of an eye, so I'm sitting here not blinking.
- When the walls felt like they were ringing with too much yelling, we escaped under the wide, wide sky which was big enough to hold all of us and give us a few moments of peace (and even laughter!).
Parenting losses:
- One child pulled a handful of hair out of her head (while screaming) upon being told she would need to wait to have her hair redone in a different style. How many times do I have to explain that people eating comes before hair looking perfect? Our priorities are very different. Looking back, I realize that it was probably less about her needing her hair done and more about her needing to feel important, noticed. But there is zero time for me to realize that and address the real issue before the hair is already out of her precious little head and my ear drums are stinging!!
- Baby won't eat if there is anything else remotely interesting to hear or look at. Big Sisters won't keep quiet. Why is it so impossible to get people fed around here?
- One child screamed the whole way home from the park. You would think I would recognize and respect signs of tiredness and get them to bed before they hit their breaking points. Why does one day of missed naps wreak so much havoc on the rest of the week?!
- One child rode home from the park naked because she was soaked - still not sure whether from pee or rain water on the slide, don't really plan on trying to find out. And no, this was not the cause of the screaming. Different children.
- One child purposefully dumped her cup with her daily medicine in it. When asked how many times she needed to be told that cups are for drinking and not for dumping, she asked (with wide, innocent eyes) "no dump cup?" FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME, NO! I know you know this. Please tell me you know this. I am going to go insane repeating things over and over and over and over and over (help me, I'm stuck) and over and over and over! Or maybe I already am? Insanity: noun. repeating the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Yep. I am insane.
Here's hoping we can all have a big snuggle fest after they wake up from their naps (yes, they're all still sleeping!!) 😮 I really do love being a mom. But some days.... yikes.
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