This is my first post about a day in my life as a mom of three girls, a wife, and someone who stays at home. I don’t know how this will go because, in my opinion, my life is boring but I am hoping someone will get something out of it. Anyways, let me begin..
I woke up this morning after getting up twice in the middle of the night for my youngest to eat (8 months old) actually feeling like I got a good night sleep. I thought to myself, hey this might actually be a good day. I was wrong. Terribly wrong lol. My middle child, Elizabeth, woke up first. She woke up in a horrible mood. She was so mean and cranky. As soon as I brought Elizabeth out into the living room my middle child, Amber, woke up as well. So here I have two little girls who fight all the time cranky. Next thing I know I have a fight on my hands. Amber sits down to read a book and Elizabeth decides she wants the book.
Right now, my husband, David, and I, have been trying hard to find the right form of discipline to get through to our children because they have been out of whack lately.
So this time we tried just sitting them on opposite couches to calm down and wake up a little bit more. Well, this did not work. Anyone have any other ideas other than timeout, spanking, yelling, or taking things away??
So anyways the morning goes on and I keep trying to get the girls to calm down and be nicer and get along and listen so on and so forth. Lunch time comes around and the girls are still acting insane. Of course I can’t eat lunch until they get laid down for a nap because I will never get to finish it lol. So I sit the girls down and give them some Chicken Noodle Soup. Elizabeth throws it on the floor and Amber only eats two bites. So lately I am trying to get it across to them that they have to eat what I give them when I give it to them. They think they should be able to eat whatever, whenever, and wherever they want. So I put them down for their nap about 30 minutes early. Elizabeth goes right to sleep and Amber never takes her nap.
Luckily, and unluckily, David is laid off at the moment so he could stay home while they were napping (Chloe too) and I could go to the grocery store to get food for Christmas Dinner and my grandfather’s birthday dinner tomorrow night. THE GROCERY STORE IS JAMMMMMM PACKED!! I couldn’t even get to all of the things I needed because the store is so packed. Luckily when I come home the girls are still napping so I can grab a quick lunch and spend some time with David. That is what I wish happened anyways.
When I came home David was organizing things in the house and I got to work washing dishes and the counter tops. After about 30 minutes of that all three of my girls wake up. At that point I thought I would never get anything done. LUCKILY, my mom stopped by and I let her watch the girls in the living room while I got some laundry put in the washer/dryer and I finished up in the kitchen. NOW I can sit down.
Chloe is playing nicely in her jumper, Elizabeth and Amber are getting in trouble every few minutes. I cannot get these children to quit acting like this. And talk about RUDE. My oldest daughter out of nowhere has obtained the rudest nastiest attitude ever. It is horrible. Anyone else dealing or has dealt with this?? Please give me some advice lol. So we make the girls sit on opposite couches again and put a movie on for them. At that point it was time for me to start dinner. Holy geez non stop work lol. I have to keep leaving the kitchen to get onto the girls to leave Chloe and her jumper alone and to stop fighting because my Mom is playing on her cell phone lol. So dinner was suppose to be Italian Sausage. I had 6 links of it and 3 out of the 6 ended up burnt. Bleh.
What a day. Finally though we got to all sit down for Italian sausage, buttery pasta, and steamed green beans. It was a good dinner. Then the girls went off to play and I started dishes. David kept on organizing things this whole time by the way lol. Finally it is bed time (mommy relaxation time haha).
I sit down and play Call of Duty Modern Warfare with David for a little while and now as I write this he is watching How I Met Your Mother. I am going to sign off for now because I am exhausted from the kids behavior, shopping, and cleaning. Hopefully someone can give me some advice about the kids or hopefully someone got something from this. Like, life is exhausting being a mom but totally worth it. Good night all 🙂
