Today was not a good day.

I’m tired, no make that EXHAUSTED!

I have dark circles under my eyes, I can feel tension in my shoulders, I ache all over, my hairs a mess and I look like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Am I poorly? You might wonder, or has something awful happened to me?

Well the truth is, it’s halfway through half term and it’s been a terrible day.

Mostly being a parent is rewarding and the best thing ever but sometimes it is not fun at all and is beyond hard work! Children can be sweet, cute and gorgeous but on some days they can be ungrateful, wingy, rude and push you to the limits.

Today was one of the latter days. It has not been fun, it has been hard work and the girls have been pretty horrible at times. Despite all my efforts and all my games I have not been able to please them…….and it’s only half way through half term.

I am just so grateful for bedtime! Tonight they didn’t even make it till 7pm – this Mummy had had enough.

I know I’m not a bad Mummy, I certainly try my best. Take today:

This morning we started the day with looking after our friends chickens. We let them out, fed them and collected the eggs. The girls love this and were really sweet. We came home and made boiled eggs for breakfast. Sounds good so far but It wasn’t long afterwards when the arguing started.

To keep them busy (and distract them from killing each other) I got the girls to come up with a list of activities they wanted to do today. Poppy wrote it out on the ipad and and we worked our way through them. They included playing dominoes, hide and seek, musical statues, outdoor play, play dough, colouring, hopscotch and skittles.

Half way through I took them out to Tescos for bread and milk and treated them to a new game Pigs in Pants. I also restocked their ice cream play dough supply. Afterwards we popped into Costa for babychinnos and mini muffins. Usually they are very well behaved in Costa – not today though. They all argued, knocked their drinks over and were just plain embarrassing. I certainly won’t be going back there for a while.

We got back and played outside on the bikes and scooters for an hour but Rosie whined the whole time. We went in and had lunch before Daisy went for her nap and the big girls and I moved on to making play dough cakes and ice creams. This was fun until they fell out because Rosie was mixing all the colours up. Then we lay on the floor playing pigs in pants. They really enjoyed the new game when they were winning but cried and winged when loosing (especially Poppy – she was a nightmare). They insisted we played it 6 times though – that was a lot of losing and tears.

 

I made them a den, put the Disney film Frozen on and sang along with them to all the songs at the top of our voices! Then after dinner we went outside again with bubbles.

Not long after it was milk, bath and stories. This bit went well until Daisy became destructive and wouldn’t sit still for a story. I put her to bed and came back to finish reading to the big girls to discover Rosie had scribbled all over Poppy’s bed sheet in biro. I was furious to say the least and they ended up in bed with no more stories.

That’s quite a busy day and a whole lot of activities. The tears, tantrums, naughtiness and stroppiness are what really finish me off though.

Sometimes parenting is exhausting and this was one of those days.

I hope they are back to their normal, happy, well behaved selves again tomorrow because I’m not sure I can cope with another day like today!

Karen x