You think everyone is having a good time and then pow! Your kid slams his face into the coffee table! I don’t know if you’d call it mommy intuition or what, but I was supposed to be at a friend’s house for ladies night and I bailed because I was so tired. I started out the week feeling sick and my Friday shopping excursion just put me over the edge again. I felt achy and tired. I just couldn’t pull myself together to go then it happened. My son face planted right on the corner of the coffee table. I swear I thought he had lost an eye. I was so glad to be home to be able to hold him, ice him and care for him. Sometimes your most important job as a parent is to just sit there and hold your child, it really makes a difference. We have had a rough week here with many issues with my boys. I guess you could call it growing pains. I’m very fortunate to be in a place where I can devoted my time to them exclusively if I have too. Personally I can’t wait till Winter break, so the rest of the world can just go away and I can just be with them. Until then I’m hanging by thread and doing my best. Here is my week:
This week I learned that:
10. lending my son my iPod actually made new problems. ( I really hate these kids on the bus! It has been too noisy for my son ( he has sensory issues) so I gave him my iPod to block out the noise. Now the kids are screaming in his face to bother him. Really! They weren’t bothering him before, but now they are because he has an iPod. Really!)
9. at least the music is blocking out the sounds so he doesn’t care so much that they are in his face. ( He told me, ” It’s a little better than it was before I don’t care about them.)
8. instead of having a pity party for myself I can take a look at all the people that have it worse than me. ( It makes my problems seem so small when I look at the big picture. It gives me courage that I can do it.)
7. I have a hard time giving up control. ( Sure, I’ve always know this, but was reminded once again and again, and again this week.)
6. I get very embarrassed posting photos of myself. ( Maybe that’s why I hate it when people constantly post photos of themselves. Maybe, I’m jealous? Uhh)
5. sometimes you need to play dumb so people will leave you alone. ( This actually worked this week. I got rid of bully mom buy acting like I had no idea what she was talking about. Awesome.)
4. getting a live tree any place else besides a tree farm only gives you only half the experience. ( Sure a live tree is a live tree, but isn’t the point about getting one the journey. Hiking out, picking the best one, cutting it down, dragging it to the car, etc. We bought our first pre-cut tree yesterday and I cried after we got home. Never again and yes I am hormonal.)
3. even after 12 years of marriage my husband can’t remember what my favorite potato chip flavor is! ( For the record, it’s sour cream and onion. He always thinks it’s salt and vinegar.)
2. I must not be talk show material. ( I have been interviewed, surveyed, called and scheduled about 5 or 6 times now and have yet to make it on a talk show. I’m either too old, too young, too thin, not thin enough, or the segment got cut before filming.)
1. through all the challenges that this week brought forward I am fortunate. I am lucky. I am blessed and darn it, I have control! ( Well, at least about how I handle things. That’s all I can ask for.)
Ruth says
sorry… I got stuck on the bus issues. That constitutes bullying, all schools in NY have to comply with DASA (dignity for all students act), which means that if you call about this issue, they need to take it seriously and do something about it… such as assigned seats! grrr.
I thought you liked vinegar and salt too..
Walter Milani says
I wish I could be on that bus to really teach those bullies a lesson! You could pay me in all the excess salt and vinegar chips which are my favorites!
Penny says
Don’t even get me started about the bus! And my husband always, always. ALWAYS buys bbq chips, even though I’ve said a billion times that’s the only flavor I don’t like. But if these are our worst problems, it’s true- we are lucky indeed!:)