We brought the month in with a bit of madness. Between softball games, baseball games, birthday parties, mother's day muffins and tea at the kids schools, end of the year parties, field days, family picnics and registering our little man for kindergarten I feel like I am losing my mind. But the kids are happy so I guess that is what matters.
Tyler will graduate from preschool on Wednesday. It is hard to believe that in August he will start kindergarten. I am still not 100% sure it is the right decision for him. I am worried that his lack of interest in school and learning is going to make for an interesting first year. I can only hope that he has a teacher with lots of patience. I also hope she has a good sense of humor because he can come up with some doozies.
Rebecca has almost finished her first year in kindergarten. It is amazing to me to look at all she can do. She loves to read and says science is her favorite subject. She clearly gets that last part from her daddy. She played softball this season. She loved it. She wants to play again next year. So far she isn't interested in trying any additional sports so I guess she will stick with just that.
And Jason... he will finish up his first year in preschool on Tuesday. In July he will turn 3 years old. That is the hardest thing for me to believe. He is Mr. Independent and has at least 3 tantrums a day. His screaming occurs so often I honestly don't think I hear it anymore. He thinks he is as old as his brother and tries to do everything Tyler does.
The hubby and I have been busy as well. He put down all new floors in the first floor of our house. It looks so good. I can't even describe how happy I am to be rid of the carpet. He also helped coach Rebecca's softball team. She loved having her daddy as the coach. He has also been playing tennis. As for me, I have been mostly busy trying to keep up with everyones activities. But I have managed to have lots of nice "me" time as well as nights out with the girls.
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One of those days
Have you ever had one of those days where you feel completely incompetent? Especially as a parent or in my case, as a mom?
Today was that day! It started off with a kindergartner who is super slow forgetting her homework because I rushed her to catch the bus. And by rush, I mean I sent her running down the street after it. After that I dropped off the other kids and realized I forgot to put the laundry in the dryer. So on my way to a meeting I had to stop home for that. Post meeting, I had to go home and pick up karate uniform for belt test.
Off to carpool/afternoon pick up at two different schools. This year I have three kids at three different schools. It is going to be a logistical nightmare I'm afraid. So I picked up at school 1, rushed down to school 2, where my baby, a.k.a the Little Dude, was fast asleep in his teachers arms....where he cried himself to sleep because he wanted me. Fabulous (please note the sarcasm here),an now he will become "that" kid to the teachers.
Off to karate for belt testing. When we first got there, Little Man had a complete meltdown over water. the teacher said he had never seen him cry before. Well that should have been my first clue just to take him home. I apparently forgot the Little Man's pants. This was take two for testing because last weeks test didn't go so well. His teacher was going to give him a belt even though he was terrible but I convinced him otherwise. Today's test was going well until about the last 5 minutes when the class starting acting extremely silly and not listening to our teacher. So no belt again. This didn't really bother me. What bothered me was the huge tantrum the Little Man threw when I forced him to apologize for his bad behavior. It went from bad to worse. There was a tantrum about his booster seat, his water bottle and refusing to wear a seat belt. He isn't the best behaved kid, but also isn't normally this bad either. When we got home, he sat in time out but I am not sure he gets it.
The playroom clean up before dinner was a disaster, too. Thankfully the hubby was home and helped with this. Both boys ended up in time out while their sister cleaned the whole room. So they had to suffer with no dessert after dinner. This caused both of them to run from the dinner table crying instead of eating dinner. Finally after 30 minutes of punishment/time-outs they ate their food.
We put them to bed at 6:45 tonight. Can you blame me?
Today was that day! It started off with a kindergartner who is super slow forgetting her homework because I rushed her to catch the bus. And by rush, I mean I sent her running down the street after it. After that I dropped off the other kids and realized I forgot to put the laundry in the dryer. So on my way to a meeting I had to stop home for that. Post meeting, I had to go home and pick up karate uniform for belt test.
Off to carpool/afternoon pick up at two different schools. This year I have three kids at three different schools. It is going to be a logistical nightmare I'm afraid. So I picked up at school 1, rushed down to school 2, where my baby, a.k.a the Little Dude, was fast asleep in his teachers arms....where he cried himself to sleep because he wanted me. Fabulous (please note the sarcasm here),an now he will become "that" kid to the teachers.
Off to karate for belt testing. When we first got there, Little Man had a complete meltdown over water. the teacher said he had never seen him cry before. Well that should have been my first clue just to take him home. I apparently forgot the Little Man's pants. This was take two for testing because last weeks test didn't go so well. His teacher was going to give him a belt even though he was terrible but I convinced him otherwise. Today's test was going well until about the last 5 minutes when the class starting acting extremely silly and not listening to our teacher. So no belt again. This didn't really bother me. What bothered me was the huge tantrum the Little Man threw when I forced him to apologize for his bad behavior. It went from bad to worse. There was a tantrum about his booster seat, his water bottle and refusing to wear a seat belt. He isn't the best behaved kid, but also isn't normally this bad either. When we got home, he sat in time out but I am not sure he gets it.
The playroom clean up before dinner was a disaster, too. Thankfully the hubby was home and helped with this. Both boys ended up in time out while their sister cleaned the whole room. So they had to suffer with no dessert after dinner. This caused both of them to run from the dinner table crying instead of eating dinner. Finally after 30 minutes of punishment/time-outs they ate their food.
We put them to bed at 6:45 tonight. Can you blame me?
Piece of Work
So those of you who know me, know it was definitely the little dude who put me over the edge. Before that I was a semi stressed mom of two. After he got old enough to get into trouble, he outdoes himself daily. So there has been mineral makeup in the carpet, a blue face full of eyeshadow, a broken shade that either he or SK did but today, today really took the cake. Little dude took off his shirt and colored his belly with magic markers. Which are only magic in the respect that they don't come off even though they were sold at the Disney store. Seriously. It. Is. All. Over. And what does the little guy tell me to make me feel better about todays chaos. He says "J., you really are a piece of work". He got that right!
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