These last few days have been challenging with the kids. We’re in a fun new stage that is loaded down with arguing, lying, and flat out disobedience. Its SUCH a difficult time, and the days have felt pretty long. Yesterday, specifically, was unreal. Un. Real. Just unlike any other day I’ve ever had. This is out of the norm for us, and caught me quite off guard just how disobedient my kids were being.
By the time Brady got home, I was ready to high five him, run away to bed, and never ever surface. But once cannot simply tap out of parenting. To be fair, we come pretty close sometimes, when he gives me breaks to go hide in bed, watch some YouTube, and relax my brain a bit. In this case, however, Brady has been feeling nauseous with throbbing headaches for the last three days, and was in no shape to tap me out. On the contrary. I sent him right up to bed and he slept for a solid hour until I had to go get Dekker from school. We went to bed at 9:30 last night.
I won’t lie. I was pretty apprehensive going into today, for a number of reasons, actually. A big part of it, though, was based on yesterday and how incredibly hard it was. I didn’t want a redo of all of that I couldn’t handle it. I am SO thankful for a mom who spent almost the whole day with me, not because we had planned for it, but because she knew I needed the company. She stayed until Brady got home. Now that he’s home, he made me a passion tea lemonade and sent me up to bed. He suggested I try to find some positives to throw in here so I’m not a total downer. Don’t worry, my words, not his. So here are a few positives.
Company! I loved having my mom around, for my own enjoyment and also some solid distraction for my kids.
Passion tea lemonade, because its delicious.
I have less tent caterpillars than everyone else because we have no greenery. As an aside to this positive, don’t you find that wet splat sound they make when you step on them kind of satisfying? I do, but I’m in a pretty strange headspace right now…
I bought an old guilty pleasure song the other day and pumped it in thew van today, and I super duper enjoyed it 🙂 I highly recommend each of you purchase at least ONE guilty pleasure song that you haven’t heard in ages or are embarrassed to like. It feels great.
Our beautiful deck made for some fresh air this afternoon while the little boys were sleeping.
I still really like my purple hair.
I think thats about enough for now. Forgive me for being off my game. I’m trying to get back on it. This will be a busy week as our town celebrates its centennial! I recommend coming to the parade tomorrow morning, seeing the balloon guy tomorrow afternoon, hitting fireworks in the evening if you can, and definitely the show and shine Sunday afternoon! I hear the music is going to be pretty bomb 😉