Today was one of those hard days. We hosted playgroup and Neko whined and cried up until the last five minutes where she became a glowing happy kid. Ridiculous. Then no one ate lunch, and everyone went to nap/quiet time crying and angry.
The afternoon didn’t go much better. Everyone was needy and grouchy.
By dinner, Tom and I were tapped out. I declared it was time to take drastic measures…the kids would be allowed to eat dinner propped up in front of the tv while they watched Pocahontas. They loved it. Then we told Neko she could take a shower instead of a bath, and to our surprise, Shep (who up until this point has been terrified of the shower) joined her. Fresh and clean, we dumped everyone into pajamas and into bed. And now it’s 8:30pm, both kids are in bed, and there’s 1.5 hours of awesome tv on NBC.
Bad day…saved.