Lest anyone think that I am always positive, always overflowing with patience and calm, may I demonstrate that in addition to running a tender post I wrote about bedtime, the Huffington Post also shared a not so sentimental moment that I experienced:
So as we all slog through another Monday, maybe you started yours with an emergency trip to the dentist for your child like I did (which let me tell you, there is nothing that brings the sense of failure as a parent to the surface as a toothache and , “Hmm, looks like you haven’t been here in almost a year,” tsk tsk tsk from the dental hygienist) or maybe you were desperately trying to wrangle a snack for pre-k that fell within the guidelines of no sugar, no tree nuts, pre-washed, cut and portioned, or you were looking at the clock trying not say, “You’re fucking kidding me, we missed the bus again,” however it was that you started the day, let’s all agree to dial the disappointment in ourselves back a notch.
Because honestly, chances are there is a big old line of people willing to do the judging for you. Save yourself the trouble and just consider a day without bloodshed a win.
Tagged: life, working mom
Yes. “Save yourself the trouble and just consider a day without bloodshed a win.” Exactly.
Thank you. I may start one of those worksite type signs: Six days without major incident!
Dude. YES. This.
xoxo
Some days you just have to modify the bar. xo
The best breaks are the ones that we give to ourselves.
Preach.
Love. I think when HP put one of my tweets in this roundup recently I was more excited than when they ran my first post. I am laughing out loud at the multi-hour ceremony of it all. Yes. The grand pageant, complete with whining and dawdling and a whole lot of requests for meaningless things. Oh, but I miss it ALREADY and I just finished it 10 minutes ago. xox
Exactly.
Yup.
xo
The rainbows just can’t shoot out of the unicorns butt every single day. Somedays it’s just regular old poop.
‘Round here, there are even sparkles in the poop 😉
Ah. So relate! <3
Yes I feel this way often – more often than I care to admit sometimes.
So fun that they featured you! And such a worthy tweet. Word to THAT.