Now, in the computer world, Meh. is a sign of indifference….BUT….in the Edwards Family world we’ve been using Meh!! as a sign of frustration for YEARS!!
You see, it’s my one Sunday a month when I’m a little more easily frustrated than others and my kids are on the rampage. Sylvie threw an all out fit in Sacrament meeting today and started screaming, “I no like this church!…I no want to go to this church!” Now, by “this church” she meant sacrament meeting because she wanted to play in nursery and I kept telling her it wasn’t time. She also dumped her sacrament water all over herself and threw crayons at the family behind us. Ryan couldn’t help me because he was out in the hall with screaming Ella who was mad that he’d drawn with purple crayon on the piece of paper she didn’t want purple crayon on. After we got home and after all the crying fits and time outs it was eventually time for supper where I can’t seem to keep either of the girls at the table. It’s like this every meal and now that Sylvie is potty training she thinks she can ask to go every 3 seconds and then requests candy as soon as she exits when she has yet to take a bit of her food. I then get grumpy and yell at kids to get in their seats and eat their food and Ella keeps saying, “Mommy, don’t say EAT, say Oh Snap!”….”Mommy, don’t say In Trouble, say Oh Snap!”….”Mommy, don’t say Mad, say, OH SNAP!”….”Mommy, don’t say Macaroni, say Oh Snap!” (See, we’ve been trying to redirect some of the words the girls were using like Oh my Goodness, and such with something we found a bit more humorous and harmless like Oh Snap! but Ella waits until I’m in crazed mommy mode and then starts correcting everything I’m saying…..it makes me even crazier….) Then Dade & Corben decide they want to help so they start yelling at the girls over the top of my yelling so that they can’t hear that I’ve stopped yelling at the girls and am now yelling at them and then they look at me confused and start yelling at me about Why are you Mad at me? I’m just helping YOU out! and such and all the yelling and screaming and asking to go potty is echoing all around in my beautiful kitchen making it a kitchen of horrors and I’m dying to run away and take a long vacation but i can’t because my husband is no where to be found….oh wait, that’s right, he had to go take something back to a friends house. I’m on my own. NO WAIT, I’m NEVER on my own, I ALWAYS have 4 kids following me everywhere making me nuts. Good thing I love them so much…………………….Meh! (I’ll be fine once they’re all in bed….and tomorrow will be GREAT!)
2 comments:
Why do we need eight hours sleep
Is something I’ve often wondered
There’s so much more that we’d get done
So “why” I’ve often pondered.
And then we have days like today
When it seems more than we can take
And we suddenly know why we need all that sleep
---God knew we would all need a break.
Sweet dreams to you all!
I love both your honesty (along with the frustration, because that's a huge part of it) and your hopefulness. And this is the kind of thing that makes me wish I lived next door. Then you could hear me yelling during dinnertime, too....my mom calls it "Arsenic Hour"....because, well, sometimes you just want to slip a little poison into that dinner you're making while they're all going haywire. :)
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