- Jun 13, 2012
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This seems to happen every morning. I make breakfast for the kids - all four of them - and then get three of them off to school and come back home to microwave my coffee and eat breakfast. I don't know why I bother making coffee before they all go to school. I have this image in my head that I can sip it while they have breakfast, but it's too hot, and by the time it cools off enough to drink, the kids need reminded to brush their hair and teeth and put on at least a few articles of clothing. Apparently it's a monumental task and extremely hard to remember. Because how can you remember to fetch two whole socks, when a bird flies past the window? Or you think of something else to do, like somersaults?
By the time I come home, thirsty and starving, my toddler thinks it's a whole new day. He doesn't care that he ate breakfast half an hour ago, because Mom is eating now and he wants some too! I've tried stopping everything and making him a second breakfast, but he wastes it every time. Like the only thing that whets his appetite is the fact that it's mine. Well today I was just hungry and tired of sharing my breakfast with a toddler that already ate, while trying to untangle matchbox wheels from my hair. I mean I am sitting there trying to eat, telling him no to my food, and ducking as he tries to drive his cars through my hair. Come on! I just made him lay in his crib while I finished eating.
Good grief, what do other people do?? I don't want to wait until his afternoon nap to eat. Sometimes I'm just hungry and thirsty and I just want to have my breakfast. Not fend off matchbox cars or dress three kids or run around reminding them of the simple tasks they have done every single morning for years. We used to have a great routine, but no one participates any more. They just dogpile me and drive cars on my head and eat my food and expect me to do it all for them. Something went horribly wrong at some point.
By the time I come home, thirsty and starving, my toddler thinks it's a whole new day. He doesn't care that he ate breakfast half an hour ago, because Mom is eating now and he wants some too! I've tried stopping everything and making him a second breakfast, but he wastes it every time. Like the only thing that whets his appetite is the fact that it's mine. Well today I was just hungry and tired of sharing my breakfast with a toddler that already ate, while trying to untangle matchbox wheels from my hair. I mean I am sitting there trying to eat, telling him no to my food, and ducking as he tries to drive his cars through my hair. Come on! I just made him lay in his crib while I finished eating.
Good grief, what do other people do?? I don't want to wait until his afternoon nap to eat. Sometimes I'm just hungry and thirsty and I just want to have my breakfast. Not fend off matchbox cars or dress three kids or run around reminding them of the simple tasks they have done every single morning for years. We used to have a great routine, but no one participates any more. They just dogpile me and drive cars on my head and eat my food and expect me to do it all for them. Something went horribly wrong at some point.
