Rants and Raves

I secretly created this blog to complain about life, and now your reading it...jokes on you! j/k. I will try and voice my complaint in an eloquent way, so that it may seem as if I'm not bitching...

One of my biggest pet peeves is when Derrick comes home from work and he says "how was your day?" My reply lately has usually been "well, i have been arguing with the kids all day long." His reply to that is "I hear ya, I have to argue with people all day long too."

That makes me so angry...his fellow employees can argue their point and effectively communicate what is bothering them...my fellow co-workers just cry and scream, and occasionally bring up a valid issue that we can discuss. Do his fellow employees tug at his pant leg and cry when they aren't being held, because he is having to load the dishwasher or start cooking dinner??? I think not. The guys at work don't start crying when Derrick has to explain to them why they shouldn't eat a bag of chips for breakfast or throw toys into the washing machine without his knowledge.

Addi can communicate quite effectively; however, she is still 2...and terribly dramatic. Conner has about 10 words in his vocabulary, thats it...thats all I have to work with...As a mom that can be so hard. When you don't have effective communication, you have absolutely no tools to solve problems. Conner has been screaming his head off for the last two days. I can not figure out what is bothering him, and after almost 36 hours of it, my patience has been all but exhausted.

So the last thing I want to hear about is how my husband argues with his coworkers, just like I have to argue with the kids...i'm calling b.s. on this one.

Staying at home with the kids is hard. There are no clock in, clock out times. There are no scheduled breaks, no scheduled lunch times, no paid time off, no weekends to run away, no sick days, and especially no personal days. I stay at home to ensure that my children are being well taken care of. I would love to be able to find a good daycare that I could trust, but you never know anymore...too many horror stories! As a mom, you have such a burden to carry around. You are expected to raise your children to be loving, nurturing, smart, and just well-rounded individuals...but there are some days that I am like...well we made it through another day alive, yep they had cupcakes for breakfast, and nope they haven't seen a hairbrush...but they are still here...happy and pretty much healthy...so that's good enough for me!