My Mom always told me, You get more bees with honey. She also turned my elementary school upside down, when she found out I had been paddled in the first grade. I’m a lot like my mom. I am not at all a confrontational person, but when I feel threatened, I have been known to lash out. Verbally. Ooops. My bad.
Here’s the deal. I’m just a Mom, who struggles everyday to keep it together. Some days are better than others, but most are not A + days. What you see here, is filtered. It’s bits and pieces. I am not the ever shining example of what I want my kids to be…at least not in every moment.
Today started in a rush. I hate when I feel rushed! The kids were dragging, because they wouldn’t go to sleep. That’s a whole other post. We had to be at Savannah’s tennis lesson at 9:00. Of course, I hit the mother load of bridge traffic today. I really, really don’t like being stuck on a bridge. All sorts of scenarios race through my head and I have to rehearse my plan of action should one actually happen. Anyway, we were about 10 minutes late. Her instructor was completely understanding…so no problem there.
As with all the tennis lessons before this one, the whole crew was there. Jacks and Annie kind of just chill. They’ll gather the balls and put them back in the basket. I guess Annie worked up a sweat, so she stripped naked on the courts. Bless it! I cannot keep that girl clothed!! She normally just walks around the house naked, eats dinner naked, plays in the backyard naked, but now she’s escalated to public nudity. Sweet. I got her redressed, only for her to pay me back by peeing all over the courts. Of course, I didn’t bring an extra change of clothes, because honestly, I’m over bringing an extra change of clothes. I ditched the diaper bag a couple of months ago. I’m not hauling gear anymore. I mean, you’re potty trained! There are no takesies backsies. Luckily, she didn’t wet too much of her clothes, but she had to go commando the remainder of the lesson.
The plans were to take them to see Turbo after the lesson. But, Annapeeonthecourtsbelle cramped my style. I didn’t want to go all the way home for a change of clothes, so I did the most reasonable thing and stopped in Target to buy some new undies and whatever shorts were on clearance. I also let them pick out some $1 candy, because I’m not paying those outrageous movie concession prices. We were on are way back to the front, Savannah wasn’t paying attention to where she was going {which I always correct}…when I hear a very loud and mean voice say the following as she pummeled through the store on her scooter:
YOOHOO!!! STOP LOOKING AT THE FLOOR!! GET YOUR HEAD UP AND PAY ATTENTION!! YOU ALMOST RAN INTO ME!!!
You see my brain only had a split second to try and stop myself for what was about to happen. I mean, this lady was yelling at my child. MY CHILD!! Fortunately, Savannah was still in lala land and Annie was too into her candy to care. There were unpleasantries exchanged or better yet, doled out…as I was the only speaking. She was definitely taken back. Good! You just can’t go around talking to people like that. Especially, MY children. Then, Jacks called me out. You shouldn’t have said those things to her. He was right and I acknowledged that. I could and should have handled it better. Proud that my boy knew better than me! Cooler heads prevail.
We made it to the movies. I got there 30 minutes early. With three kids…that might as well be 24 hours early. Shoot me now! Cute movie, what I saw of it. I made FOUR bathroom trips. Shoot me again! Savannah had a meltdown because I threw the rest of her king size Nerds in the trash. Did I mention Annie peed on the floor at the movies? After the FOUR bathroom trips?? It’s a good thing scooter lady and myself crossed paths before the movie. She got off lucky!