All day I have heard mom, mom, mom, I have heard the same stories over and over again, I have heard crying and the dog wining and barking, the tv is too loud, I’ve been on my phone too long, I have tended to the needs of the kids and pets all day, I am over touched, and the house is a mess. I resent my husband for being at work all day, I resent my kids for keeping me from my husband when he gets home from work because we have to get them ready for bed and shut down the house. I am just so over stimulated at the end of the day it takes everything inside of me to keep from yelling at everyone, I just have no patience.

 

One evening I straight up walked out of the house because I needed 10 minutes to not hear crying. Josh gets home from work, we briefly talk, he eats dinner, (I have usually eaten by the time he gets home), and then it’s go time. He takes one kid, I take one kid and we tackled bed time which is an hour long saga, it is the worst hour in the entire day. Everyone is done, everyone is tired, and toddlers decide this is the time of day that they are hungry and thirsty and don’t have to pee and will do everything in their power to stall bed time. Ryden will say he is hungry, but won’t decide what he wants to eat and then we’ll make him food and he takes two bites and is done. I find the best way to get through bed time is to take our time and meet all of his possible needs so that when it is actually time to go to bed he doesn’t have any excuses left, holding boundaries is also so important but it is so hard to do when we are just exhausted.