Jason is in Spain this week and so far we are on Day 3 without him. This is one of those times when I really wish we lived closer to family. Oh how it would be so nice to just drop off half of them to someone related and leave. I have never been able to do that. I wish I had help because without Jason it's so hard being a single parent. I have a friend who is a single parent of 6 children and I wonder how she gets by. Even just 2 children alone without a spouse to help would be so hard. I remember back to when Jason was in Graduate school working 2 jobs and I was home with the babies and how that seemed like forever until I'd see him on the weekends.
Caleb and Brenden fought so badly this morning I thought I'd have to call the police to break it up. Then after Brenden finally calmed down after being put in a seriously long time out and threatened to loose out on playing outside and playing computer, then Caleb started teasing Daniel. For my sanity it's great that Daniel doesn't react or blow up like Brenden does, but it was a horrible yelling fight. I really don't know what to do. They all share rooms so they can't go far to get away from each other. I just feel that I'm going to completely loose it if Jason doesn't return on Sunday. I seriously thought about driving to Ohio and dropping them off with my parents, but my Mom is working full time and my Dad is recovering from yet another surgery, his 4th major surgery in 2 years so I can't go there.
Yesterday we passed some time by going to Dairy Queen and I also took 4 of them shopping at a store called "Stuff" a local consignment store. Each of them had the opportunity to pick out 2 outfits each. That seemed to help. Today we made cookies together and Brenden went on a sleepover so that brings my total down to 5.
I hope I survive.
5 comments:
Hey, Mike is gone all week, Brent is gone, and Hans is gone! We are all single moms this week. Except that none of us have as many kids as you so you definately have it worse. Well, and Hans is gone all month. That would be crap. It has been a very bad week for us at our house. I finally lost it when Will was sticking the snot sucker up his nose and then squeezing all the snot out on the table! Mike is only home a few hours a day but I can't believe how much those few hours save me. Good luck with it Michelle!
Oh, Michelle - so sorry to hear about your hard time. I hope you are alright. We'll be thinking about you and praying for you! You will survive!
I too was wishing that school was still in session yesterday. Adrianne and I were comiserating on the phone yesterday about this very thing. I just keep praying that my stress doesn't come out with the kids. I'm sure they are stressed too with all of our changes coming, but they seem to be acting out more than usual lately. Of course, the non stop rain didn't help either. I can't even ask them to go outside. Then there's the fact that somehow I have to keep the house spotless to try and keep it ready to get out on the market. UGH!!! Good luck Michelle. We all feel your pain.
Last night went a little better. Caleb and Daniel went to an Eagle Scout project for 3 hours and Brenden went to a sleepover so that got rid of three children for a little while. Today is Day 4 and I just barely heard from Jason by an e-mail. He is waiting to hear from Lindsey, he hasn't seen her yet but hopes to soon.
If school was in it would be easier since the children would have more structured things to do. I vote for year round school.
Other than that we are due for a huge storm today, with winds projected to get up to 80-100m.p.h. and every news station is saying this cold front moving in could produce large hail and many tornadoes. I'm cleaning out the bikes on the one side of the garage to get the van inside so I will have both vehicles under a roof. Hopefully the roof won't be torn off. I'm a little nervous about this storm and I'm not sure if my anxiety is because Jason isn't here or if something really bad is going to happen. Just a bit worried in Iowa.
Michelle, that stinks. We are supposed to have severe weather too but I don't think much will happen. I was worried about it with Mike gone and our storm shelter has two inches of water in it so I thought maybe we'd camp out in the bathtub. But Mike gets to come home early! So now I don't worry about something happening and being alone. I hope you don't get any tornados. They are scary.
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