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Motherhood kicked my rear today
By Moriah on March 30th, 2009
I could probably cut Monday completely out of my week and never look back. Today has been extra stressful because the new restaurant Andy’s helping with opens this week and, well, we didn’t see him much. I have a feeling the next couple of weeks are going to be rough.
Today was particularly trying. I let the kids play outside this morning – which was going swimmingly until Adelaide decided to turn on the water from the outside faucet. The best description I can think of is MUD BATH. Both she and Drew had splashed around in it sufficiently before they paid any attention to the woman yelling at them from the deck (that would be me).
Oh, and the dog poop? I don’t think anyone has actually gone and done anything about it. Several of the kids shoes are sporting ripe-smelling lumps. (Sorry. I know.)
So back to the muddy children. I peeled their clothes off outside, and sent them all into the bathtub. I needed to scrub the pen marks off of Adelaide anyway.
I got her down for a nap, safe and sound – and left Drew and Madeline to play in the tub while I folded mountains of laundry (5 loads to be exact. Unfortunately it was last week’s laundry and I still have mountains, only they’re dirty).
When I went into the bathroom later, I stepped into at least an inch of standing water. I’m glad I wasn’t wearing socks; that might have been the boiling point. I was angry enough. They know that water-splashing is sooo against the rules.
And speaking of puddles of water, twice today Madeline poured her own cup of water and, well, let’s just say her Brita-pitcher aim leaves something to be desired.
I self-medicated during naptime with sweet tea and fresh lemon and hot mozzarella sticks with marinara. (Junk food = does a mama good.)
The rest of the evening went in much the same fashion. I served peanut butter & jelly for dinner – that was about all I could muster. The kids are all mercifully tucked in bed and even though my house is still a wreck, I can breathe just a little easier.
And I’m hoping tomorrow? Will be better.
14 Responses to “Motherhood kicked my rear today”
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I’ll let you borrow my mom of the year crown. Except we’ll have to share it today because it was a rough day here as well. One child came home sick… which caused me to miss another child’s competition and there wasn’t much understanding or mercy for me and my predicament. Dinner was a disaster and my house is still a wreck from spring break.
Whatd’ya say we boycott Mondays?
Poop on the shoes or poop in the tub? I’m just sayin’.
(Sorry…I don’t know that I’ll ever squeeze all the mileage out of that).
I can sympathize. Dave is on a business trip now until Friday, so you can pretty must guarantee I’m going to have at least 1 of those days this week! Hang in there.
Hey! I forgot to change to the new address in my reader, so this morning I thought, “I haven’t heard from Moriah in days…” and realized it was my fault. :) The redeeming thing about rough Mondays is that you KNOW Tuesday will be better. :) Hope it is. And pb&j is a very nutritious dinner so don’t feel guilty about that. ;) Love the mozzarella therapy!
I have soft pretzels in the freezer for my therapy food, unfortunately, the older kids have found out they like them also – ruins the “therapy” part.
Wish you could have wine and chocolate with me! ;-)
Cheer up! The laundry will wait patiently for you to get to it. :) Sorry about your rough day.
i hear you with the mud… but i don’t have muddy kids, just muddy dogs. they get about 3 rinses in the bath tub per day, and i mop EVERY day!
Those days are the worst and for some reason, always seem to fall on Monday. Hope today is better for you!
I think Monday was bad all around…and I don’t even have kids in the mix yet! Here’s hoping today is better than yesterday. Where are the margaritas?
I feel you on Mondays!! Chris didn’t get home until 10 last night. It can only look up, right?
Blasted laundry…goes and spoils every nap and bedtime because even if you don’t do it, the guilt just hangs over.
Girl, I love how real you are. And I seriously LOL’d when I read “ripe-smelling lumps”.
Oh, mercy. I.have.been.there.
This week, the dog is puking, too, which is almost as nice as dog poo on the shoe (or body part).
Rainy days and mondays do tend to get me down. Even if the rain is caused by a hose. :) Hang in there. Thank you for visiting my blog recently, too.
How bout I pop on over and we can settle in to medicate ourselves and laugh at each other’s life? I’ll bring Pina coladas.