Day

[ailbhe]

I started the day in a foul temper and screaming. Well, not started, but one mockery-and-taunting from a disobedient child was enough to get me there, when usually I can act like a grownup.

Got everyone dressed, gave everyone the opportunity to eat breakfast and brush their teeth, hung out laundry, brought in laundry, laundered laundry, got out the yoga mats and encouraged yoga, reserved books online with Linnea so she will have the things she wants to read next time she goes to the library, made a fruit salad, wrote Linnea a recipe for French Toast and stood back while she mixed it up, helped her fry it, we all ate French toast and fruit salad for lunch, I cleaned the kitchen counters, dining table, highchair, swept the kitchen floor, emptied and refilled the dishwasher, hung up the wet wool laundry and put on a "handwash" load of toys and things...

I think I am actually a pretty good parent today, in spite of first-thing-fail and screamy heebie jeebies.

Astrid ADORES her sisters. She is so lucky to have TWO big sisters at home to play on.

Comments

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I think you are definitely a pretty good parent. Better than that, actually.

Does blood sugar have anything to do with early morning problems? If so could you keep something small but high calorie next to your bed so you can eat before you even get up? If it was me I'd use something like a big cereal bar, or a box with malt loaf with spread, or something similar.

[pauamma]

AOL the "good-or-better-than-good parent" bit.

[ailbhe]

It might be food again. I must have a small black hole in my oesophagus.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I always get hungrier and more likely to have massive blood sugar crashes around my period.

[pauamma]

To play... on? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

[ailbhe]

No, no they don't, really!

[pauamma]

Bah. OK.