The weather has got to get better. It’s bringing everyone down.
We’re getting teased by these flashes of glorious weather, and then the rain and cold return. The sickness has kept the kids up at night, but no one is sleeping in or doing extra napping to make up for it, so we’re just getting more and more tired. Between the sick and the lack of sleep, we have behavior worthy of putting Supernanny on speed dial.
The kids are trying every ounce of my patience. They are pushing all my buttons. No one is listening. Shep misbehaves and then laughs at me when I try to correct him. He laughs when I put him in time-out. He’s throwing. And hitting. And screaming. When something doesn’t go her way, Neko snaps immediately into a screaming tantrum that is virtually uncontrollable. If I have to say “use your words and not your hands” one more time, I might put my head through a wall.
I’m not being the best mom this week either. Way more yelling than there should be. Too much TV and about zero projects and thought-provoking activities. And the laundry is piling up.
My only consolation is that Susie is having the same sort of week.