I had kind of a rough day today. I tried to complain about it to Miguel, but it didn't work very well. When you try to complain about how hard your day was with two cute little girls, it doesn't work very well when the person on the receiving end works 7 days a week, 10 hours each day at a physically demanding job with a bunch of guys with big egos. So no, Miguel was not extremely sympathetic.
Usually the only time I get frustrated with the girls is when I'm trying to get something done. Today I guess I just got frustrated because I started to try and potty train Chloe, but her attention span lasts about a nano second, and my patience seemed to have about the same duration. So the combination of my short fuse and Chloe's interest in everything BUT sitting on the potty didn't go well. And she wanted to wear the underwear, she just didn't want to use the potty. So we had quite a few accidents in her underwear today.
It's pretty much my fault. I had read this book on how to potty train in a day. I figured I'd just introduce the potty doll while Leyla was napping, and it went pretty well. Then Leyla woke up, and instead of just quitting right then, I left Chloe in her training pants and figured she was smart enough to just figure out that she needed to go sit on the potty before she peed herself. If I wanted to do it correctly, I would have hired a babysitter for Leyla, and picked up the entire house to reduce the number of distractions for Chloe. But no, I think I'm just going to let her daycare train her, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm paying them lots and lots of money, so I may as well get my money's worth, right? And I'm sure they have a lot more experience with it than I do.
Anyway, I need to take a shower with my awesome new shower head and then start some laundry. Let's hope I can make it through this weekend!
Once again, my hat goes off to all stay at home mothers out there. I don't know how you do it.
3 comments:
Kelsey --
I am being a stay at home right now, and I don't know how other mom's do it either. I am some what ready to go back to work, and the other half wants to stay at home with the kids. I don't know what other mom's do sitting at home all day long with their kids, I go stir crazy. So I totally know how you feel staying at home right now. I can't really help you with potty train because I had a hard time with Lizzie and Cayden did it on his own and Hunter has nothing to do with it. but your kids are so very cute.
Dang. I just had a nice little reply going and firefox crashed on me. Sigh...Anyway, it's not about who had the rougher day, it's how you were feeling. As far as the potty training goes - at least Chloe knows "how" to do it and when the time comes, she'll do it just fine. There's PLENTY of time - I never even started to try with you guys until you were at least 2 1/2.
Hope your day is better today.
I hate potty training. We done it four times and I still don't feel like I know how to do it. It does take some patience which I don't have a lot of. I do have to say I love being a stay home mom. I've done both and used to think I would get bored being home, but I don't. I am very grateful to be able to now, I couldn't with my first two. I say hats of to you. I don't know how you do it all and I honestly think you are pretty amazing. That's from getting to know you better through your blog.
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