Yesterday was going along as such a nice day. The kids can get very tired on the weekend because their weeks can be so busy. They still take an afternoon nap but on the weekends, it is imperative that they get some sleep. They fall asleep at 2:00 and 45 minutes later our neighbor and her daughter sit on their patio just talking. The daughter screams bloody murder...so loud that I go outside to see if everyone is ok.
Oh, I just saw a lizard.
~grrrrr~ Have I mentioned how much I love our neighbors?? I go back inside and who is up? Yep, two sleepy kids.
Later on we decide to go to Barnes and Noble. Thomas loves the train table and Stella loves, loves, loves all the books. When it was time to go, Thomas did not want to go (and remember he is overtired too). He starts to cry and I try to calm him down.
There is this moment when the situation goes from manageable to out of control.
Well, it went there.
Thomas is screaming at the top of his lungs. I pick up him and try to get out of the store ASAP. He is kicking, screaming and trying to get away from me. Anyone looking on 1. quickly decided to never have children themselves and 2. thought I was trying to abduct this little boy.
I was mortified. Top of his lungs!
So, help me out here. Anyone have a story like this to share? I need something to help me recover.
Grape Tomatoes
3 months ago
4 comments:
Sure.. we all have those moments... I once had to carry Sunshine out of a friends house stiff as a board in my arms screaming at the top of her lungs. These are people I work with every day- some of whom I manage. MORTIFIED!
I've had the I want that I want that I want that moments in the store and I've said no and the screaming and crying commences.
I tell you now.. I know how you feel.. I've been there.. but that awful feeling passes.. because you know that in the crowd was some other woman who has kids and who has been through that exact moment.. and any Mom (or Dad) who says they've never had a bad parenting moment- is lying..
the one's that pull at my heart string more are when I have to leave to go to work and have to peel Sunshine off of my leg (and for a long time transitions to her Dad from me were really rough)... don't go.. don't go.. I want you... I want you! Once after a dance recital Sunshine had to leave with her Dad and not me.. she screamed bloody murder the whole time and I had to just turn and walk away.
The bad parenting moments are few and far between.. don't beat yourself up... you have tons more wonderful parenting moments... you have to take the good with the bad... there is after all, no manual for this sort of thing...
Yup, been there done that. And what I hate is when they are screaming and then become a limp noodle so that you then can't carry them to get them out of the store. How in the world do children go boneless like that?? I really want to know their trick.
It's funny I was just trying to explain that phenomena to a friend with a 1 year old.. the limp noodle.. and she said.. how do you carry them.. and I said.. I don't know.. divine intervention or something like that.. it just happens!
Hahaha! We say that all the time..."boneless". It doesn't make sense unless you have experienced it.
Yes, where does that strength come from? Mine came from the fact that every single person was staring at me. If I could have sprinted out of the store I would have.
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