Demanding day with the kiddos. It's election day here and Toby's school is a polling station so he had the day off. I thought it would be nice to hang out in the village, get Tobes some new shoes for school and have a nice lunch. Rosie had other plans.
I guess she's going through the terrible twos. It is painful to deal with. She's really aggressive and shouts and whines all the time. There was a commercial here a few years ago that said that children make X number of demands a minute and illustrated this with a drill sergeant shouting at a mother, "I WANT MY BREAKFAST! RIGHT NOW! IT'S NOT HOT ENOUGH! GET ME A DRINK!" , etc, etc. I can really identify with that ad these days. I can't remember what it was advertising. I think it was some hotline to call before you try to kill your children. I wish I could remember that number.
It probably doesn't matter though because I'll be in jail soon. Due to rain and Rosie's bad temper I gave up on the relaxing day in the village and decided to have a movie afternoon. Tobes has been interested in seeing the Indiana Jones movies and I bought the box set last week. We went to the grocery store to get popcorn and ice cream to make it like going to the cinema. I think that's part of what really kills me. I'm trying to do something nice for the kids and it all blows up in my face so often.
Today we were choosing snacks and Rosie took off across the grocery store. Toby wanted to run after her but I said to just leave her and she'll go too far, get scared and turn around and come back. We stood and watched the back of her as she ran to the other side of the grocery store then turned the corner. As soon as she was out of sight Tobes and I started running after her. It's a big grocery store and I thought she might get lost and get really upset. When we found her she was dancing, singing to herself and looking at bottles of wine. As soon as she saw us she took off again.
When I finally caught up with her I kneeled down and told her she must never run off like that again. She looked me right in the eye and shouted "NO, YOU SHUT UP!". Then I turned her around and gave her the first spanking of her life. When I looked up I realised we were on CCTV. There was even a big TV screen showing us in full technicolour to the whole store.
So, if you're in England and you're watching the news tonight and they show one of those "Have you seen this woman?" bulletins along with a harried, wild-eyed woman beating the crap out of her kid in a grocery store... you know where I am.
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i hauled lizzie bing bing age 2.5 out of rich's department store on my hip like a football with her kicking and screaming to the cheers of two old biddies. went outside, set her upright and proceeded to take bad behavior in hand. we walked back into the store and had a great rest of the trip. and i lived free and DEFACS free to tell the story. stand tall, stand tall! love, lizzie's mom, mcd's nana and the library dragon!
Sing along with me and countless generations before.."I Will Survive."
Once when I was shopping with Kevin & Rodney (who was asleep in his infant seat, in the buggy), Kevin grabbed a carton of eggs, balancing them on 2 fingers in air,and was running through the store singing "I'll Fly Away". That is the day I learned how to do a wheelie with the cart and not lose the baby. As a mother of 4, I am living proof...there is life after children.
Mary Catherine screamed last Saturday for five minutes while I was dragging her to the car from the market. Not just wordless screaming - screaming saying how I made her unhappy and it was all my fault.
You're not alone!
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