Back to hibernating in the house! Triple digit weather, no one in this household wants to venture out not even to go swimming. The kids would either want to go swimming in the morning or later in the evening. Of course the kids are on "let's bug each other and drive Mom crazy" mode.
It all started early this morning when D comes running in my room because the phone is ringing. It's my cousin calling to ask about J's cold because Squiggly (aka Smiley) has caught it and had a bad night. We talk about the cold for a while and I know it's hard when a toddler has it because they get cranky but it's that much harder for a baby. I feel so bad for Squiggly and I really tried hard to keep J away from her but even my cousin said "You know it's almost impossible to think she wouldn't get it when they are with each other all day". It's true, J likes to give Squiggly toys (and sometimes even take them away!) and they share J's high chair too. The good thing for Squiggly is when she starts school she'll already have built up her immune system!
By the afternoon I was starting to go a little crazy with the kids so it was time for work books to be done in separate rooms otherwise if they're in the same room they're making noises with their mouths and under arm pits and giggling.
I picked out their pages for each subject, Jr. still had pages he hadn't finished yesterday because he threw a fit about the very first one which he ended up spending way too much time doing that by the time Daddy got home he only did one other. I told him to finish all the pages he had from the day before and sent him off to his room. J was whiney, crying, and very cranky so I made him lay down next to me and take a nap. Silence, if just for a little while was fabulous. One by one they would bring their books as they finished their work. Jr. gave me his first. He said "Here Mom, I did them all". Like it was no problem. I told him "See when you just put your mind to it look how fast you got them all done and done right". He looks at me with a little smirk on his face and says"Well, that's just because the pages you picked for me were way to easy". What?!?!? This kid was practically crying yesterday over these pages and now he's going to be a little Smartie with me!!!!! This was a definite "Just Breathe" moment. J was asleep leaning on me on the couch which was very lucky for him. I told him "you finish that one page then bring your workbook back to me so I can give you new pages for today". Huh, he instantly turned into that little sad boy that was here yesterday. He didn't come back to me after that actually he was very quiet and kept his distance from where I was with J.
Daddy got home from work, J eventually woke up in a better mood and I made my way over to the kitchen to start dinner. I called one of my Mom-friends to see how she was and for the few minutes we talked we managed to let out some of our stress moments of the day. It was nice! It's so great when you finally meet those few friends that you just connect with and are able to discuss anything including our feelings and thoughts. It doesn't matter if you don't talk every other day or once a week you just know exactly where each other are coming from.
Tomorrow's another hot one, Squiggly will be back, and once again we'll be in the house.......
Just a Mom trying to make it through the heat..
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