1. No Sleep-Got rid of the soother, went away for the weekend, and topped it off with a case of stomach yuck. I know, some babies would breeze right through, but ours has decided someone needs to be in his room with him all night. Yawn...
2. No Respect-I remember being 8 years old. I remember thinking I knew everything. I remember believing my parents knew nothing and were just plain mean for enforcing any kind of rules. I apologize profusely to my parents, especially my Mother. If it makes you feel any better, I am paying double for it now.
3. No Energy-Seriously, is this just the way I get to feel for the rest of my life!?! Ugh!!! Sure, it is related to #1, but I can't even put together a sentence, I can't remember my own birth date, I can't walk to the school and back without feeling wiped out. I sure don't have the energy to look at things in a positive light.
4. No Christmas-Yup! Canceled in our house due to #2. See ya next year, Santa.
5. No Coffee-The canister is empty, so it looks like I will be leaving the house today. Oh crap, there's No Gas in the van.
Okay, just so you don't think I am on the brink, which I may be, and for my own therapy, here are 5 more, with perspective.
1. All of my children are healthy and without serious injury at the moment.
2. Halloween is coming. I like Halloween.
3. There are still one or two people who will agree to babysit so I can take a break.
4. The sun will come out...tomorrow. It will. I checked the forecast.
5. This, too, shall pass.
Phew! It took so much longer to write those ones. Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's some sort of hormonal imbalance. Maybe I just need a good kick in the...
I know I have it good. I know we are lucky. I just don't always feel that way.
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NB: In case you think it is unusually cruel to cancel Christmas, they do have two and a half months to redeem themselves, and ultimately, I don't have the power to stop Christmas from coming. Not even the Grinch could do that. "Somehow or other, it came just the same."
3 comments:
This was so much BETTER than all those floofy super-positive posts out there...because it was REAL, and I only have one wee stinker at the moment, and I can still relate. It will be so good for all of us to get together on Friday and have some mama-b*tching time! Nothing like hearing the woes of other moms to make us feel better...and more importantly, NORMAL. :)
So true! And I must appologize, because I know my blog these days probably fits into the yucky positive category. That must be super annoying. Reading about other people's 'happiness' is pretty obnoxious, I know. That's the deceiving thing about 'blogs'. With them, we can paint a picture about our lives, whatever picture we want. We can leave out the bits we don't want to remember, or don't want anyone to know about. We can add a rosy hue to the parts we chose. But blog posts are just glimpses. Not the full picture. Thanks for keeping it real, Shawna.
Here here!! Maybe we should have a day in the week dedicated to the not so nice, BUT VERY REAL, things happening in our daily lives..... "Mayhem Mondays" or "What the $!#@? Wednesdays" come to mind. I caught crap from my family when I went on a little pity-party rant on my old Blog and I always wondered why?! My son is a hellion these days and not only do I threaten to cancel Christmas, there are days I wonder if he'll see his 4th birthday.
We're all right there with you...
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