it is a very good thing i enjoyed yesterday morning and sleeping in and the whole
nine yards yesterday. today it has been one bickering fight after another, and
all four of them have been getting into it. it's got to be the weather. yesterday
was nice, and the kids were ok and i got to enjoy my morning. last night it rained
and today it is overcast and chilly and the kids are out of their friggin' minds.
taz i can forgive and actually should expect such problems. he's off meds until
monday (when we start him on ritalin) and his respite care person couldn't make
it today (and, in fact, may not make it for a few months as he waits on his licensing
renewal). he's very tied to routine, and his routine has been disrupted. next
week promises to be worse - he's off track for 2 weeks.
it all started at 7 this morning...jewel and froggy started fighting over whether
or not froggy could use jewel's brush. then kitten jumped in and it almost became
a war. big issue? no. worth fighting over? no. but they did. waking both me and
emce up. from there it just escalated...at least a half dozen times in the first few
hours. add to that this is chore day and it is really interesting over here right
now...NOT.
anyone want three girls ages stubborn, whiny and annoying (translated to 7, 10
and 13)? taz at the moment is relatively quiet, and usually is when he's separated
from them. his thing is to get into their rooms and get into stuff, causing all
kinds of trouble. their thing? just to annoy each other and him. parenting. gotta
love it.
i have noticed weather changes seem to affect attitude changes in the kids before
this. not gradual ones, but sudden ones. one day it is cool the next it is blazing
hot, and tempers rise with the temperature. goes from nice to rainy, and they
are all irritable and disagreeable in general. it's bad enough to have to break
up fights on a normal day. on a weather day? it is at least three times worse
as they get into fights every 5 minutes, sometimes almost literally every
5 minutes.
now add this to the usual dragging of feet on chore day and i think you may have
a small inkling of what it is like over here today. fight - break up fight - dawdle
- remind them to do chores - another fight - break up fight - another fight -
break up fight - remind to check their laundry. and so on and so on.
