Hurry Up and Wait

Mom came over to the house this morning and did me a big favor by hanging out with William while I got a few things done around the house. It was very nice to have him occupied for a little while so I wasn't trying to do my thing and keep up with him at the same time.

After lunch she needed to go sign papers on her new car and asked William and I to go with her. I didn't see a problem with that. I figured it would take an hour tops. We sat in the car dealership for nearly 4 hours waiting for them to get her car ready for her to take.

I thought this was a ridiculous amount of time. I was late getting home to get Ben up and get dinner made. I was one hot momma! However,William handled all of this very well, and was for the most part very well behaved. I was very proud of him. The evil part of me was wishing I'd let him climb all over the corvette in the show room.

So in the end, Ben got an extra 30 minutes of sleep, Mom got a new car, and William got brownie points for not completely losing it during 4 hours of waiting.

Attitude Adjustment

Well, I've decided it's time to get back to posting about something good. I won't say every day, but most days. Since I have quit doing this blog, I have gotten in the habit of dwelling on negative things and being stuck in a cycle of self-pity. Well, depending on the situation, I'm usually not very tolerant of self-pity in others, so it's time to quit putting up with it from myself.

Today, while a challenging day in the realm of parenting, had it's definite ups. About 6 o'clock this evening I got a bug in my backside and decided that there is WAY too much stuff in this house. By 9 o'clock had two huge boxes and six giant bags of my belongings gathered up and ready to be taken to Goodwill in the morning.

While I am in no way done purging this house of things that are not benefiting this family, I at least got a start, including, I hope, some of my current funk.