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Tempests in the Puddle

November 22, 2005 by

In the name of honesty and integrity, today i….

*Sent Amelie to nursery when she didn’t want to go and consigned her to late club so i didn’t have to be screamed at one more time by her.
* Screamed at Fran for peeling a conker and being excited about the contents when she should have been tidying her room.
*Yelled at Fran when she was the only one who had in fact done any tidying.
*Yelled at Fran for helping Maddy do Bear and Penguin.
*Threatened Fran with one sort of maths or another OR ELSE.
*Shrieked at Maddy for leaving her cup in the wrong place, even though she is the only one who lightens the load by getting her own drinks.
*Ballsed up two bead orders and then snorted with derision because i didn’t like their email address.
*Put clean carpet before cuddles.
*Took lots of paracetamol to cure a hangover; given that i’m breastfeeding, neither hangover nor painkillers might have been more appropriate.
*Yelled at Fran and Maddy before 4am because they were in bed with us and consequently Amelie, also screaming and very itchy, woke up Josie.
*Threw out a stack of paintings i meant to photograph in a temper because someone had left them lying around (me).
*Told the children to leave me alone so i could work.
*Stropped at the children because they wanted to talk to me at the same time as do bead patterns i’d asked them to do as new designs for BM.
*Left Josie in a nappy far too long.
*Left Josie to grizzle herself off to sleep in the cot and when i checked her she’d fallen asleep sat up with her head on the cot side.
*Put sorting washing ahead of doing something meaningful.
*Ate 3 Penguin bars.
*Lost my patience with Maddy after she asked me how to spell “am” three times and still spelt it “ma”.

And through most of this i walked around having arguments in my head with anyone who doubts how grateful i am for my children.

I think i probably ought to start by apologising, in several directions, and then have a lot of chocolate. I do have a stinking cold…. do i have to say any less “I love Amelie’s” because of that, or do i still need to do the round 300?

I do. Fair enough.

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Comments

  1. Jenny says

    November 22, 2005 at 6:48 pm

    We have days like this too. Try not to overdo the mea culpa’s 🙂

  2. Heather says

    November 22, 2005 at 7:46 pm

    Such is life. Don’t give yourself a hard time about it, we all have days like that.

  3. khadijah says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:15 pm

    maybe it’s time to…(???)

    hugs from me

  4. Hannah says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:16 pm

    LOL, glad I’m not the only one to have days like that. It can sometimes make you focus on having a REALLY good day tomorrow!

  5. site admin says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:19 pm

    Giggle – i just sort of prefer having the good days first!

  6. Karen O says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:20 pm

    that’s a typical day here!! lol

  7. site admin says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:29 pm

    Bugger – Karen, haven’t repied – doing so now!

  8. Sarah says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:35 pm

    sounds fairly normal to me, too …

  9. Jax says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:39 pm

    was thinking that too…

  10. Debbie says

    November 22, 2005 at 7:43 pm

    it’ll be better tomorrow. nothing life threatening.

  11. HelenJ says

    November 22, 2005 at 8:55 pm

    ahh, love and hugs Merry. These days just happen.
    we also have stinking colds.

  12. Ruth says

    November 22, 2005 at 9:15 pm

    Good day then? Lol. Sounds like one here. ((hugs))

    Ruth

  13. tammy says

    November 22, 2005 at 9:58 pm

    sounds very familiar!! we all have days like this. ((hugs))

  14. Roslyn says

    November 22, 2005 at 10:07 pm

    Yes, but usually because something else needs to be dealt with. We all tell our children off, lots of us shout at them but when the whole day is a wash out of crap it usually has a whole different reason than for those we are shouting about.

    For example three weeks ago I spent many days saying sorry.

  15. Katy says

    November 22, 2005 at 10:54 pm

    Yup, we have days like that and I’m with Ros, usually it’s me that has the problem (although some days….) In fact the other day Becca sent me to my room until I could be nice! I meekly obeyed and had a glorious half an hour in seclusion!

  16. merry says

    November 22, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    Golly, what a blissful idea. I shall ask for permission to withdraw tomorrow i think.

    hasve to say, it was all pretty much tongue in cheek – just a fractious day but i sort of thought it would make people smile ruefully.

    i do appreciate being smothered in hugs though 🙂

  17. chris F says

    November 22, 2005 at 11:13 pm

    I liked the one about ‘snorting at the email addresses’ best 🙂 So who gaver us all this horrible cold then 🙂 ?

  18. Nic says

    November 22, 2005 at 11:17 pm

    yeah, I’d *love* to be sent to my room…

  19. merry says

    November 22, 2005 at 11:48 pm

    personally *I* think it was Joanna 😉

  20. Nic says

    November 23, 2005 at 12:49 am

    what’s great is that if we have got it we’ll pass it round a load more people at the weekend. a blogging pandemic!

  21. merry says

    November 23, 2005 at 12:52 am

    should see us all immune to each other a week later though – yet another computer virus 😉

  22. chris F says

    November 23, 2005 at 10:19 am

    ah yes,Joanna…. 🙂

  23. Joanna says

    November 24, 2005 at 1:08 am

    I’ll take responsibility for the cold if someone else will take responsibility for the head lice….

  24. merry says

    November 24, 2005 at 11:18 am

    Hope it wasn’t us. We ddin’t have any that i could find the day before Barbara came, but i’m beginning to think i am incapable of getting rid of them here 🙁

  25. Kris says

    November 27, 2005 at 6:05 pm

    (((hugs))) Had a day like that yesterday – ugh.

    Am resorting to baby oil laced with tea tree oil for the lice here. 🙁

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