With summer vacation coming to an end and the countdown to school starting my kids have, to put it in simple terms, lost their freaking minds. They shredded my sanity in the process.
Little Mister is in a full-blown teething fit lately. The teething tablet were lost. ::cry:: I tore the house apart looking for them since they are a $6 bottle of teething miracle. The bottle was more than half way full, so I refused to buy another. I stubbornly believed I would find that bottle. After a 3 hour screaming jag on his part and a crying fit on mine did I buy a new bottle. It was only after the last of my sanity slipped away I gave in and bought that new bottle. Why didn't I do this sooner? I got an even bigger bottle, with almost twice the tablets for only 50 cents more.
My toddler tornado seems to believe that turning 4 means you double up the terrible twos. She has been on a tantrum frenzy lately. If she isn't having a meltdown she is having a pout fest. With her older sister's back she spends a good part of her time doing everything in her power to annoy them. Taking special things from their shelves. (she climbs on precarious self built structures to get to their precious collections)
She recently got extremely angry (picture a cute but very angry troll jumping up and down) because her older sister was holding little mister and wouldn't pass him to her. She tried tattling that they weren't sharing brother. (like he is a toy) When that didn't work she screamed at her sister to go away she wanted her brother alone again. The start of school can't come soon enough for the toddler tornado, then she will go back to crying when they go to class. (gotta love the drama that comes with 3 girls)
The tweens, Are experiencing nothing short of being possessed by some psychosis lately. It leaves them bickering with each other over the smallest things. "That's my pet shop!" (out of the hundreds they own they fight over one.. worst part is it's one of the doubles.) When they were toddlers they would tell anyone who listened that they were best friends. Now, they spend more time as mortal enemies.
The tweens also recently got back from a month with their Nana who doesn't have the same type of household expectations as I do. Don't get me wrong I'm no clean freak or obsessive organizer. (I haven't arranged my movies in alphabetically order since having kids.) I do have some expectations though. I now get to spend my time turning them back into productive members of our household. I get to re-teach them that their dirty clothes will not crawl their way to the laundry hamper themselves. We limit TV times for a reason. They should not sneak around and watch after being told to do a more enriching activity. (like practicing multiplication facts.) Making your littlest sister cry is not an acceptable way to pass the time.
I ended up having a huge meltdown yesterday. Of course my brother shows up just in time to see it. ::embarrassed:: I was hormonal, tired, stressed and in desperate need of a break. Four kids on summer break and no break in sight for mom makes for a very cranky mommy. It's not that I don't ask for a break from the kids. I do! But for me to actually get one I have to go on strike or wait until everyone else is asleep to get some me time. For a while now I have taken my me time in the early morning and using it to workout. Unfortunately recently the kids have woken earlier and earlier leaving me for no personal time in the mornings to workout without an audience or kids badgering me about breakfast in the middle of my workout. Or even worse getting under foot.. (I hurt my leg due to a kid blanket that the kids left on the floor right behind me during a workout.)
I love my kids! Just because I vent about their meltdowns (ok so them causing my meltdowns) don't think I don't love them. Every parent needs a break. More so for the ones that are the stay at home parent. My job's shift isn't over in 8 hours, I get no vacation time, no sick time, and no pay. (unless you count payment in hugs, but it's easy to forget those when the hug giver is standing in front of you in the midst of the biggest tantrum you have ever seen)
School will be starting again. Very soon I will be back in the middle homework battles, school projects and parent teacher conferences. Before I know it I'll be looking forward to the first school break when we wont need to wake early or use a daily calendar for what to wear that day. (No dresses for P.E. or favorite outfits worn on Art days)
Just don't get me started on what all these schedule changes are going to do to our parrots behavior. It's like a having a bad toddler that doesn't handle change in their schedule AT ALL. Fun times.
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