Lilacs4Me
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- Aug 31, 2015
OK - I had a terrible night with my kids last night and need to hear other people's less-than-stellar parenting moments. No judging or mean comments on anyone's stories please...this is meant to be a lighthearted-ish post about times we lost it or made a mistake and wish we had done better.
Parents are not perfect. Kids are not perfect. Especially at 11:00pm when woken up by teens siblings who were told NICELY ahead of time to please come back quietly from their late night ice cream run, and to please make sure they lock the backdoor and keep the lights off because I would be sleeping and needed to wake up at 5am for the beginning of a likely 70-80 hour work-week this week. DH is out of town this week and I don't sleep well when he is gone as it is.
Kids: 0
Lights on, wide-open backdoor, and yelling back and forth to each other: 1
I don't think I've ever lost my...stuff, like I did last night. I am pretty sure the whole neighborhood heard me, my kids now think I'm mentally unstable lol, and I'm pretty sure I told my newly-graduated nearly-18 year old at some point in my tirade that if he can't respect my house and my rules he is old enough to find somewhere else to live (so to top it off, I officially turned into MY parents last night, too! , and the threat is completely ridiculous as DS will be leaving for college in like 3 weeks anyway lol)
Sigh. I just want to be the mom who is super-calm and understanding. My poor kids got stuck with a crazy person.
I apologized profusely to all three of them for losing it lol and they still love me. But man do I feel like a jerk today!
Please top me so I can laugh and not feel so bad!
Parents are not perfect. Kids are not perfect. Especially at 11:00pm when woken up by teens siblings who were told NICELY ahead of time to please come back quietly from their late night ice cream run, and to please make sure they lock the backdoor and keep the lights off because I would be sleeping and needed to wake up at 5am for the beginning of a likely 70-80 hour work-week this week. DH is out of town this week and I don't sleep well when he is gone as it is.
Kids: 0
Lights on, wide-open backdoor, and yelling back and forth to each other: 1
I don't think I've ever lost my...stuff, like I did last night. I am pretty sure the whole neighborhood heard me, my kids now think I'm mentally unstable lol, and I'm pretty sure I told my newly-graduated nearly-18 year old at some point in my tirade that if he can't respect my house and my rules he is old enough to find somewhere else to live (so to top it off, I officially turned into MY parents last night, too! , and the threat is completely ridiculous as DS will be leaving for college in like 3 weeks anyway lol)
Sigh. I just want to be the mom who is super-calm and understanding. My poor kids got stuck with a crazy person.
I apologized profusely to all three of them for losing it lol and they still love me. But man do I feel like a jerk today!
Please top me so I can laugh and not feel so bad!