I'm having a bad mommy day. Although I suppose it started last night. I called the twins "freaking idiots" because they were jumping from the top bunk down to Kelly's bed (which is about 5 feet from the bunk beds). I apologized but I didn't really mean it. It happened during bath time and I hate bath time. 8 1/2 years of it and I am so done helping people wash themselves. I hate getting soaked from head to toe between hair shampooing and drying off the kids. I hate gathering towels and soaps and lotions and q-tips and pj's and underwear and hair brushes. Even if I think I have everything in the bathroom ready to go, there's always something missing. This is one aspect where I wish the kids would hurry up and become teenagers and shower by themselves every time the wind changed.
Oops, sorry about going off on the bath time tangent. Where was I? Oh yes, bad mommy day. So as Greg pointed out, the kids went to bed with me yelling at them and then they woke up to me yelling at them. *cringes* Ally couldn't find her school shoes and began whining and helplessly staring at the ceiling. Because you know that's the most obvious place for school shoes to be, the ceiling. Zach wanted to go to the bus stop 10 minutes early and updated me on the time every minute (and who could blame them with their mom yelling at them?). Kyle was mad at Emily for copying him at breakfast (I'd have to think there would be some copying with the whole "spoon in cereal, spoon to mouth" action going on). Kelly refused to walk downstairs and yelled to be carried and then wanted to sit next to Kyle at the table which again royally pissed him off. All this and I woke up with the start of a migraine (I get the light/sound sensitive type) and a kink in my neck.
So here I sit with my cup of tea (cold) and I feel rotten. And not just because of the head and neck aches. I hope the twins don't have a bad day at school because they had a bad morning at home. I wish Zach wasn't so nuts about being at the bus stop at 8:10 exactly (the bus doesn't usually arrive until 8:20 and they've never missed the bus). I wish I could find the patience to make it through bath time without becoming a complete grump. I want this migraine to go away. I need a do-over.
So how's your Monday been?
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