April 16, 2007
I Couldn’t Wait to Get Back to Work Today
Monday mornings are the start of my work week like most people with jobs. However, my Mondays are a little bit better than one would imagine.
After a weekend of being held hostage by a toddler with big demands (juice! waffles! chips! juice! candy! cheese! apples, mumma! juice!), I find myself wanting to go back to work.
This last weekend was no different.
I went to a scrapbooking event called Memoranza, sponsored by Creative Memories consultants in my area. As a lapsed consultant myself (soon to re-sign, though!), I love to attend these events for new ideas and to check out the latest products.
This weekend’s crop was wondeful. It began at one o’clock on Friday and ended at 3 p.m. yesterday. I managed to get in 36 hours of cropping time with no Dawson around to get into my suff and make a mess. I caught up on all of my photo organizing, completed sixty-one scrap pages and won several door prizes.
It was so nice to be with my scrap buddies and talk about family, friends, kids, marriage and work. And I loved sharing photos and memories with the other women.
Saturday night we went out to dinner, had a couple of drinks and discussed the latest archival systems. Our meal was at the Sport Plate, a normally delicious restaurant, but our steak and shrimp specials weren’t cooked to our desired doneness and we had to send our steaks back several times. We ended up getting our meals for free because of the trouble.
On Sunday, I was so tired I left the party early to go home to my husband and son. I actually missed the whining. Or so I thought.
When Dawson decided he wanted to go to the park, and threw a tantrum the size of Texas when it was time to leave an hour later, I was ready to go back to work at that moment.
I thought that being away from my demanding child, who is stuck in his terrible two’s, would make me feel like me again. It turns out that there is no break from motherhood, and temper tantrums for that matter.
The joys of being Mommy are wonderful and I’d never trade them in, but I just wish I knew how to deal with meltdowns a bit better.
Any advice?
Posted by Dana @ 10:45 am • Scrapbooking, Uncategorized
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April 16th, 2007 at 11:27 am, Janet a.k.a Wonder Mom Says:
I find myself ignoring the meltdowns more and more…they end quicker and quicker…S’all just trial and error…
April 16th, 2007 at 1:50 pm, motherofbun Says:
Oy. I remember that time well… Its HARD. And I don’t know… I don’t feel qualified to give advice… Mainly because I alternated between getting pissy with my husband and child and eating large amounts of junk food.
April 16th, 2007 at 8:03 pm, Jennifer Says:
I don’t think I’m qualified at all, since my daughter is only just entering the terrible 2’s…. I just try to stay firm and calm when she does this stuff. I don’t let her get her way and I don’t let her see me get upset about how she’s acting.
Knock on wood, it’s working for us at this point…
And as for the looking forward to going back to work… I KNOW what you mean. I was ready to go back to work after maternity leave (it ended less than 2 weeks ago). Work is my “ME” time.
April 17th, 2007 at 10:56 am, Cheryl Says:
Can’t give you much except support. Ben isn’t to that stage yet, really. He’ll have some meltdowns, but they don’t last more than five minutes. Right now, it goes like this. Ben has something or wants something that he shouldn’t have. We remove the item from his field of vision. He screams and hollers and kicks. We walk away and sit down in another room. He comes to us, crying, looking for comfort. We hold him and sympathize that life does indeed suck, and then he gets down and plays with something else. End of meltdown. I know we have it easy right now, and I know it’ll get worse. Just keep venting to us. It might help.
April 18th, 2007 at 9:58 am, Dana Says:
You know — I said I loved going back to work and I do — but it sure kept me busy the last few days!
Thanks for all the good advice!