It's not even 11am yet and I already hate the day. I had to take the boys to the DMV with me. Fortunately, it was quick and the girls working there were really nice and they had a table of toys for the kids. However.... both LB and JC were fighting, screaming (like, full-on, someone-is-murdering-me screaming), throwing toys at each other, crying, whining, and making a mess. Funny- this time, the DMV wasn't the issue, it was my children.
I honestly can't be around them today, so they are in their room. After a lecture about why they're there and how angry I am, they seem to have completely forgotten that they were acting horribly, meanwhile my blood pressure is still sky-high and I still have enough anger to rival The Hulk. I think putting them in their room is just enough a time-out for me as it is for them. That's fine- they can stay there until my anger with them has subsided.
Meanwhile, I think I'll put my new plates on the car and vacuum kid shit out of the seats, then sit outside on this sunny warm day and flip through a magazine.
*One good thing about today- I looked out the window at the large bush hanging down over the stone wall and realized it is a raspberry bush, and there are little green berries (some are turning pink already) that will someday be ripe enough to pick. Yum!
3 comments:
You gotta do what you gotta do to hang onto what sanity you have left. Everyone needs a time out sometimes.
There really is nothing worse than the DMV. When Evan gets mad at me he often threatens to put me in time out, and I'm all HELL YES! Put me in time out, that would be the bomb!
Mommies need time-outs sometimes, too. Isn't it amazing how our children can act so horrible in the exact situations when we need them to be good? I bet you all the folks at the DMV were saying "Oh, I have so been there!"
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