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?
