Friday, February 17, 2006

Not one of my finer moments..

I am definitely not winning any mommy of the year awards today! Everything was running smoothly this morning until I went to start the van to warm it up....I could not get the key into the lock! I ran back inside, amazingly found the lock deicer and got the driver side unolcked. I was not able to get the other doors to open so the kids had to climb in my side to get to their seats. I was trying to climb back to get everyone into their seatbelts and Jaden started fussing and whining about her mitten not fitting properly I told her to take a minute and actually try to solve the problem herself...it went downhill from there. She started huffing and sighing and I yelled..loudly! I got the mit straightened out and got it back to her and I felt terrible! Yes she was driving me crazy, but why on earth did I react like that? When she got home for lunch I sat her down and apologized for yelling so loudly and explained that her whining has got to stop. So, I seem to be lacking patience today but thankfully I am (now)aware of that and I am trying to turn a deaf ear to the bickering and whines. I am sure the afternoon will be better:)

1 comment:

Nan said...

Your blog is looking good! Now I have another one to add to my list of blogs I read. Fun!

I admire your apology to Jaden. I think our kids need to know we aren't perfect and it takes guts to go back and aplogize.

I'll be back soon to see what you have to say. Oh, and I am so glad I wasn't the only one who said "yolk" on that brain teaser thing! :)