Pizza and a Coke solves everything

photo - after dinner snuggles

The Activities

What a horrible day. The kids took turns being miserable for pretty much the whole day. I obviously should listen better when Schmoo says she wants to stay home. I decided to take them both to the gym this morning and she started complaining about wanting to stay home before we even left. They were happy enough at the gym's daycare, but after I was finished, I took them to Wal-Mart to buy Valentine's Day cards for her classmates and she started to meltdown. I thought it would be fun to buy cookies to decorate and when we got to the grocery store, her miserable mood escalated into a full blown fit. At one point she had removed her jacket and boots, screaming "I'm hot, I'm hot" and then threw herself on the floor and started kicking her feet. She threw her stuffed penguin and box of cards down the aisle at me and just kept saying "I want to go home". Needless to say, we went straight home. Her bad mood continued when we got home.

I finally got both kids into their rooms for quiet time and then they switched places. Schmoo came and crawled into bed with me and fell fast asleep. Bean proceeded to yell at me from his room for the next hour. I went into him at one point to find him just lying on his bed, with his legs up on the wall, yelling "mama, mama". I tried to tell him it was time for his quiet time and went back to my room, only to lie in bed listening to him yell at me some more. Wow, can he be stubborn. Talk about a frustrated mother.

When I did finally get him up and Schmoo woke up, their bad moods persisted. But of course, as soon as Papa came home, their bad moods turned into silly moods and they had fun running around being silly. My mood was shot though and so pizza and a coke were to be my reward for surviving the day.

Schmoo's Favourite and Not Favourite Parts of the Day

Favourite - getting the Valentine's Day cards

Not Favourite - when Bean stepped on her penguin at the grocery store

Thoughts on the Day

Today was one of those days when I dream about going back to work. It's hard when one child gets into a totally unreasonable mood, but for both of them to go crazy today, it was brutal. I think the fact that I have a real pinch in my neck too, added to my own crankiness. It makes me sad when I try to think of fun things to do (like make Valentine's Day cards and cookies) and the kids' moods just make the activity either miserable or not worth doing. Schmoo seemed to turn around this evening though and was sweet as pie. Papa made a funny comment when I came home from picking up the pizza about how some mothers are driven to drink when they have days like today and how great it was that pizza and a coke solved mine instead.