tired

• Early morning out to the garden (have kept with this, by the way). 

• Clean out husband's car so that I can use it today (find many interesting wrappers...)
• Come in, clean out big buckets, notice husband still sleeping (the same husband who won't be home until after 9pm tonight so will have had too little connection time today with our young child)
• Say in as kind of a tone as possible: "If you are going to be gone until after 9pm, then you need to get up, get the kid up, and connect with her before you leave this morning."
• Make both beds that have been abandoned quickly.
• Empty dishwasher.
• Let husband make breakfast for child because I'm angry still.  (I do care that he's tired, but I'm tired, too, but got up early enough to get outside and do stuff out there.  If he's going to be gone all day and evening like that, he can get up early, too.  He knows the kid takes it out on me when she misses him.)
• Do laundry.
• Clean up kitchen.
• Pack up car for berry picking later.
• Coax the daughter into the car for swimming lesson, hearing her whine about how she doesn't want to go and doesn't want to do anything with me because she doesn't like me.
• Do swimming lesson (Potty before, get naked, get swimsuit on, shower, go out to deck, leave and go to stands, watch and wave when she looks over, read a few paragraphs of good book, come back at end and pull her out of the pool, shower, towel dry, get dressed, go potty again)
• Pick up brother and nephews and take them berry picking at nearby, no-spray farm, try to impress upon the boys that shoes are necessary in berry orchards.
• While driving, daughter talks nonstop about being 4 1/2 and all the things she can do now, and brother sits in silence and drinks the tea he brought and the tea I thoughtfully brought for him.
• Pick berries for an hour.
• Watch a man get chased by a bunch of angry wasps.
• Agree to teach young nephew how to make jam tomorrow.
• Take all five of us to lunch, have a nice time, talk about silly things, laugh too loudly and feel embarrassed.
• Come back to our house and show everyone how to pick beans and harvest broccoli and garlic.
• Pack them all up with vegetables and berries and send them home.
• Try to get child to take nap.
• Fail.
• Watch cartoons together.
• Take daughter out for sushi at one of those places with a conveyor belt, win big mom-points.
• Live through a meltdown at Target afterward.
• Give grumpy, contrary kid a bath.
• Storytime.
• More laundry.
• Get barking dog back in.
• Clean up kitchen.
• Sit down.

Comments

[Account Deleted]

I know. I know. I'm tired too...different day but same tiredness....

[Stephanie]

I have had those kind of days too... minus the brother and nephews, since I'm an only child. :-) Certainly is a different kind of tired, at the end of one of those kind of days.