Isn't it funny how I seem to remember all the highlights and good times of the Easter weekend and leave out all the challenges that went along with it. I guess it is like looking back on anything in the past really, as we would sooner forget about these things and focus on the positives. We don't go taking photos when we are having a crappy day or when your child is having a tantrum, but are quick to pull out the camera and share the photos around when they are doing something cute!
I just want to document how it really is and although our weekend was extremely enjoyable, it certainly did have some challenges thrown in there. I must include them, as this is after all, a Diary for me to reflect on, and it would not be true or accurate if I left out all the juicy stuff. The stuff that leaves us exhausted at the end of each day, the stuff that causes us to lose our patience and the stuff that just drives us bonkers! In short.....reality.
Friday- Oskar's toilet training continues and brought us a poo from another planet! Seriously this thing was like nothing else I have ever smelt. The smell of this thing could have wiped out a small village! Let's just say a relaxing shower turned into a shower I'd rather forget.
Friday night- 4 hours sleep of short spurts. Up and down, in Oskar's bed curled into a ball, into our bed clutching the side of the mattress trying not to be kicked off the side, back into Oskar's bed....and ended up sleeping back in ours but at the foot end while Oskar lay sprawled out on my side, like king of the castle.
Saturday- Sigh of relief to have a day and night off!Thanks again Nana and Pa!
Sunday- I blame chocolate. There were tantrums, vomiting on dad, refusal to get dressed into pyjamas while ninja kicking, screaming and more tantrums at bedtime. However, these things often also happen without chocolate present. Oskar and I also struck by a cold...also may have contributed to the days downward spiral.
Monday- Tears and screaming when he couldn't have chocolate for breakfast! Oskar ran riot at the beach car park...chased him in the car park before being thrown in the car as I collapsed the pram after our walk so we could go for a swim, then he proceeded to switch on the hazards and blinkers and toot the horn! After the swim Oskar pee'd on the public grass area next to the beach showers and then I had to drag him back to the car and pick him up off the ground 3 times, because he didn't want to go home...he wanted to go to Asha's house. All of this weaved into many highlights and lots of fun of course, which I have already written about.
Some days you just feel like curling up and having a lie down to relax especially when your feeling under the weather, but you can't when you have a toddler refusing his day sleep..you have to just get through it and keep on going!
Now these things weren't terrible nor were they unbearable, but are simply just a part of our day to day life now which I should not forget to mention. Many of our days events are exciting and fun as Oskar develops and grows and sometimes they're just plain exhausting. I hope this doesn't sound like I'm complaining, as I would hate it to sound like that. I feel very lucky to live the life we have.... I am simply documenting what is part of our ever changing lives now, so we can one day look back and say...'oh yeah that's right!'....'Gee we got through that so easily....it feels like so long ago now I can hardly remember it!' ...and I wont remember unless I write it down.
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