or more aptly put..Unloading Zone
I have crabby kids-maybe not all the time but a good bit of the time they are not happy. Today so far is no exception. Child 1 is 13 and still sleeping but if I dared to awaken him-LOOK OUT!!! His 13 year old mood swings could knock out George Foreman the I, II and III. (I don’t actually know how many George Foremans there are but I know he named all of his kids after himself and a funny grill.) He thinks it is his job to make his siblings scream and in turn I scream louder. He also mistakenly thinks he is 18 and acts accordingly.
Child 2 walks around with a cloud hanging over her head 80% of the time. Her glass is always 3/4 empty and nothing meets her standards. She thinks it is her job to knock any happiness out of child 3. I look forward to her PMS years around the corner.
Child 3 is the happy one. She smiles and is easy going. She is happy way down deep. But because she is so blessed to have moody, dark siblings-she thinks she should act and react like them. She is being dragged down to their pit-happily playing in the brown crap.
Now my wonderful hubby just stopped back home and will make some comment about me still sitting at the computer, still in my jammies and I have been up for 3 hours. I can’t win…..Wait it’s coming…..”I wasn’t going to say anything!”..Good boy. The one shinning moment of my morning! Besides my crack, I mean Starbucks.
OK gotta go before I get a ticket.
Yup, some days you just can’t win. We made it all the way to the metro station today when i noticed I still had on the indoor school slippers… hugs to you!
Only 6 more hours until dinner with me and Dawny! Whee! Wait, Six. More. Hours. Now I’m depressed. Let’s go to the pool!
i know how you feel! i don’t have a moody teenager, but i’ve got one in one heck of a terrible twos stage. she sat down in the middle of petsmart today screaming, “I’LL DO IT! I’LL DO IT!”
ah, fun times.
oh and also? hubby and i both forgot it was our anniversary until about an hour ago.
whoo hoo!
I am pleased that I am not the only one capable of still being in PJ’s sitting at computer hours after waking up
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Blah! My number two has just finished beating my number three over the head. My number one just said, “I don’t like you” to me because I told her to get off the computer. Thank goodness number four is asleep.
oh my, i can relate too! my oldest and my youngest (i only have the 2, but they are nearly 5yrs apart in age) are CONSTANTLY fighting! so there’s a grumpy factor around here frequently too! makes me feel like a horrid mama, that i cannot figure out how to inspire a peaceful home environment. my oldest also tends to be the grump-starter and the younger will follow suit even though he tends to be pretty cheery usually. but he’s also the instigator, because at 3 he REALLY loves to push buttons and see reactions. *sigh* goodness, parenthood is HARD, isn’t it??
but i’m always glad to hear others are going through similar. misery truly DOES love company!
I relate totally…..pre teen mood swings round here and a 3 yr old testing the boundries….(oh and also narky comments regarding sitting on the computer in pjs, ignoring the washing up…) You are not alone!
Your house seems similar to mine… Except I think I have more and wider range… Mornings are tough… and I consider the day to be wonderful if I am the first one up and can sit in the living room alone having a cup of coffee… but if by some chance the one of the sleeping teens decides to wake before me… there is nothing I hate more then walking out to see them not awake but glowering…That is usually when I slerk back into my bed with a cup of coffee waiting for the clouds of grumpiness to raise:)~