mommymommy

The last two weeks have been very overwhelming for me as a mom. The kids are in non stop bicker, whine, fight, cry mode. Once one stops, the other starts. On top of it all, I have been working “double shifts.” Mark works all day and he has had tons of band commitments in the evening. He is currently in three bands and all of them are full speed lately. So to be able to function I kind of go into robot mode. I get them cleaned, fed, the basics. Im constantly yelling at them to stop fighting, or crying or whining. The last thing I want to do is anything fun with them. They have totally spent me. Im soured on my kids. I still love them, blah blah, but god damn they are no fun to be around. All this is putting me in a funk and I just don’t want to leave the house. I don’t want to break up fights and tantrums in public. I would cry, seriously. And them everyone would look at the mom who couldn’t pull it together and control her kids. So today, it was time to break out of my funk before I sunk deeper. I packed a picnic and drove them to Cache Creek. We drove through the lovely Capay Valley and settled at the Cache Creek camp ground and ate lunch and got wet and sandy at the beach. They played great together. They used their imaginations. There was no tv, crying, fighting. Just laughs. Once home, they settled back in their old habbits, we all did I guess.