Showing posts with label Tantrums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tantrums. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The crappiness continues...

So I wake up this morning to the Hubster telling me that I have to help him get stuff out of the freezer.
The fridge half is fine, but the freezer side is warm.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh!
This means that food is lost, and sometime soon we will we buying a new fridge.
Yay.
Then I take Jared to preschool and run to WallyWorld to get cleaning supplies for the house.
I hate WallyWorld, but they have the ink for our printer.
So I go get Jared from preschool, where he runs out the door in tears.
I try to figure out what's wrong, and he didn't get a sticker.

 Well that usually means that the child was misbehaving, but he was first out the door.
So I was confused.
Mrs. Teacher usually holds misbehaved children until last so she can share with Mom.
Well, after a long, sobbing drive home, I found out that Mrs. Teacher ran out of stickers.
She told Jared to have me give him one when he got home.  No problemo, she knows we have a sticker behavior chart.
But to a little boy with special needs, that sticker is a badge of honor, and all he knows is that he came out without one.
My heart just broke for him.
When I opened his backpack, of course there was his reward ticket that he gets when he is a good boy.
He finally calmed down when I gave him a sticker at home. 
Then we went to the library and I went home the wrong way...
Cue sobbing.
Ciao!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

One of those days...

Cold & Rainy
Spilled coffee on myself.
A Sprite exploded in my lap.
My throat hurts.
My children aren't cooperating with us.
Jared is having a bad day, too.
His bad day is having an effect on my bad day.
A big effect.
I'm fighting the urge to scream.
I know it won't help.
He doesn't understand why his constant repeat questions are annoying.
He doesn't understand.
I don't understand why his brain makes him ask me the same question over and over and over and over, even though he KNOWS the answer.  Why does he NEED me to say it?  Why me?  Why not Daddy?
Why am I the one that seems to be the most upset?
Well, I know that...
He's Momma's boy.  And that is why I don't scream.  Why I don't run.  Why I calmly answer the same question over and over and over and over.
Because that sweet little boy calming down from another tantrum is Momma's Peanut.  And he'll make me laugh when he toots in my lap.
Ciao!