Sometimes I Need to Remind Myself
LG has been really whiny this weekend and crying at every little thing. Around here we like to call it pre-PMS, because it seems like it happens about once a month, just like it happens for us grown-up girls.
Whining is probably my biggest pet peeve, and the one thing that I have zero tolerance for. It drove me nuts when my students did it and it drives me nuts when my daughter does it. It kind of makes me want to either lock myself in the bathroom with the radio turned all the way up and the shower on full blast, or it makes me want to scream at her to stop whining already! So far, I haven’t done either one of those things, but I have been trying really hard to get her to stop so that I don’t end up doing one of those things.
It’s days like these that you have to take a deep breath and remember why you’re doing this in the first place. I will be celebrating my fourth Mother’s Day in a few days after years of wondering if I’d ever celebrate Mother’s Day again after I lost my mom. I am blessed. Very very blessed. Whining or no whining, I’m so honored to have had a beautiful mother for as long as I did and to have a beautiful daughter now.
That beautiful daughter turned 3 years and 5 months old a few days ago and I managed to forget to post my monthly photo retrospective – I’ll just say it was a crazy week and leave it at that. But here are some photos from the last month – photos that remind me exactly why I’m doing this thing called motherhood.
