My kids really pissed me off yesterday.
So I yelled at them. Not all at once. I let my anger out in intervals.
Throughout the day.
I mean, why only ruin one small part of the day when you can ruin the whole thing, right?
I slept right through my alarm, and I didn’t wake up until 6:00.
Which is really late.
So I spent the whole day feeling behind. And rushed. And stressed.
When Number 5 came into the office and I was frantically trying to send an email before Number 4’s bus came, I said, “Get out of here. I don’t want to see you right now.”
When Number 3 and Number 4 were arguing over who got to sit where on the couch, I came into the room and yelled, “WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO??? CAN YOU NOT COOPERATE FOR EVEN FIVE MINUTES???
When I was trying to find the address for a package I was supposed to mail last week, Number 6 asked, “Mommy, can I sit in your lap?”
I lovingly answered with, “No.”
And then when he tried to climb up anyway, I said, “Get off of me! Go sit over there!”
When Number 3 couldn’t find his hat, I looked at him and said, “Every day. Every day this happens. Every day I have to waste my time looking for something you can’t find because you can’t follow this one direction.”
And then I thought of…
Well, you know what I thought of.
So can someone please tell me that they have lost their patience with their kids since last Friday?
Because I have.
More than once.
Believe me, I have also appreciated a thousand things that, normally, I wouldn’t have.
And I have taken a few extra moments to smell the roses.
But no matter what has happened in the past week, if my kid smashes an ornament from the tree on the floor on purpose, well, that’s still going to piss me off.
And when he whips his cereal off the counter because I didn’t let him put the milk in it himself, that is still going to piss me off.
Especially when I just spent 45 minutes seriously cleaning the kitchen floor.
When my 3-year-old whacks my 1-year-old in the head with a piece of wood because, “But Mommy, she wasn’t doing what I told her to,” well, that’s really going to piss me off too…
So today I set two alarms.
The first was at 3:30.
The second at 4:00.
I did not oversleep this morning.
So stress won’t cause me to lose it on my kids today.
But exhaustion might 🙂
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