the days are all starting to run together into one giant whine fest and struggle with showers and meals and homework. i am gonna seriously consider having children and then giving them to someone else from the ages of 6-16. i dont know if i can deal with this. then of course there is the old thought that your kids wont be like that...i mean, is it programmed into every 12 year old to leave dirty tissues lying all over the floor and for 10 year olds to not flush the toilet?? i dont understand...
yesterday morning was a little tougher was far as getting them up for school, but we managed to all get downstairs without killing each other. breakfast was another battle...luckily i remembered to cut the crusts off abby's sandwich so i really avoided a potential situation there. chris of course did want to eat anything, i cant seem to get it across to him that because he is a diabetic, he needs to eat. i finally convince him to eat a go-gurt. can we talk about go-gurts for a second?? who thought it was a good idea to put a thinner, more liquid form of yogurt into a straw like container for kids to suck if out of?? that was a seriously gross and horrible idea. regardless, i was happy he was willing to put something in his mouth. then, there are a thousand medications that each child has to take in the morning and at night...abby has no problem getting hers down, but chris has severe issues with swallowing pills. so what do we do?? accommodate him of course!! and the trick, as told to me by his mother, is to break the capsule in half, exposing all the little balls of medicine inside and to "hide" it in a spoonful of lime sherbet. okay...done. except he hates it. and he literally sits there staring at the spoon for a solid 10 minutes...its dripping everywhere, and he is fake gagging. i was like, chris, hold your nose, do something, its one freaking bite...take it and move on with your life. he said he couldnt do it, i told him i had fed plenty of babies in my life so i had no qualms about putting that spoon in his mouth. ah ha!! that did the trick and he ate it. and then proceeded to keep it in his mouth and do the throw up gagging swallows...i was like, come on kid...just SWALLOW IT!!! ugh...what a production. i dont even care if you take the dang medicine.
i also made the mistake of asking each child what they would like in their lunch...yeah, dont ever do that...you should just not give them a choice...if they are hungry, they will eat what you packed. and of course abby uses different peanut butter than chris does and she likes her sandwiches cut in some circle shape with a cookie cutter and chris likes his cut into triangles. oh my heavens...this is not a full service culinary kitchen!! lunches packed, backpacks ready...load up in the car. do the carpool drop off and at last i am alone again.
i came home and napped because i almost dont even remember driving the kids in the morning because i was so dang tired. then i got up and laid by the pool for a long long time. looking at my itinerary for the week, i already knew that tuesday was gonna be my favorite day of the week because both kids have after school activities until 6:30pm. they were each dropped off around the same time and i had even made them dinner...i was pretty proud of myself. oh, but chris had already eaten so he didnt want any, but at least abby was appreciative. and by appreciative, i mean, she actually ate it.
then we did homework and pretty much had to start getting ready for bed. so i forewarn chris that he has to take a shower and he literally throws himself prostrate onto the couch in protest. the whining continued for 30 minutes!! i was like, you do not have a choice in this matter, it is not an option, you are showering. to which he informed me that his mom didnt make him shower this much and i said, um, every other day?? i should hope that she does. so i have to almost physically drag him upstairs and get him into the bathroom...where of course he takes a bath again, but hey, thats a battle i was willing to lose. i do the required reading and am so happy that another day has passed.
i have learned my lesson and dont even try to take a bath because i know for a fact it will be ruined. and of course, i was wrong. i threatened abby about coming downstairs and i guess she actually listened. then again, she wasnt feeling well and again asked me to promise that i would come and check on her and take her temperature every 15 minutes. once again...not happening my friend. either way, they didnt make a peep and i was able to sit downstairs and study for hours and hours and hours. until about 3am...normally not a problem, but 6am came awfully early this morning.
parenting isnt getting any easier and remind me of this week when i think i might wanna try it again...hahahahahaha. how am i ever going to consciously decide that this is something i wanna do and commit to?? i better have a darn convincing husband...hahahahaha.
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