When Mama is feeling moody, we are all going down.
I felt fat, and ugly and EMOTIONAL. It’s been a rough week.
On top of this, none of my clothes seemed to fit right, the kitchen was a mess and it looks like all 101 Dalmatians took a crap in my backyard. (Spring in Canada means melty poo is found after a winter of hiding under a pristine layer of white. It’s not pretty and it does not smell good.)
As I was trying to decide how I was going to bribe my Hubby to get out there with a shovel and a Hefty bag, this was when BlueEyed girl decided to pick the 13th fight with her younger sister in an hour. This was not a good decision.
Yelling happened.
Crying happened.
Stomping feet and slamming doors happened.
Then after about 100 deep breaths. Apologies happened.
At least I had the smarts to march myself up stairs, tell my baby I was sorry, that she had become victim to my short fuse. That this really was about me, and what I had going on not about her perfect little self. Then what happened? She apologised to me!
What? Yep, that little pre-teen threw me a curve ball and shouldered some of the responsibility for the number of fights she had been having with her sis. Huh. Maybe I am getting some of this parenting stuff right!
This my friends, is what is really going on in the suburbs.
Don’t you just hate PMS you feel like you’ve been takin over by an alien and I remember thinking that it would have to start getting better when I got older. WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those days can be so hard…
When I compare my PMS of the past with my mild and infrequent hot flashes…I’ll take the latter. PMS was a dog!
Yep, you MUST be doing something right! Ive heard preteen girls can be pretty scary creatures.
Sometimes those Tweens do that. Throw us a bone just so we feel a little better.
Way to get it right. I love the two way apology – it makes me feel like somewhat of a success…..it doesn;t happen often, so if you could just send me the instruction manual that would be great 🙂
I’m impressed that she apologized!
I hate those moments where I’m an emotional time bomb just itching to go off and the kids end up detonating me.
I hear you on the yelling and slamming of doors.
Kudos to you for apologizing and what an amazing daughter you are raising!!
How awesome that she apologized to you. 🙂 You’re doing it right, mama! Grab some chocolate and a chick flick and fight off that PMS. 🙂
That is so cool that she apologized. You’re doing something right. Love it!
I got lucky. I don’t get the moodies that bad.
I hope tomorrow is a better day.