Mother's Day began yesterday evening with yelling and screaming match with everyone and then again first thing this morning bright and early as usual. Younger difficult children. I'm up and trying to simply read the Sunday paper and then cut my coupons which is routine. Arguments over the WII and TV, which they JUST got back! Middle difficult child being mouthy as get out to me, everything she says out of her mouth proceeded by B**tch to me. Oh excuse me, stupid B*tch! Ordering me around. Telling me how I'm not going out today and how she knows I have plans to go out and go shopping because "it's Mother's Day". Yeah, I do. To the grocery store to get some food (normal Sunday thing) and then to get HER birthday gift stuff! Her birthday is tomorrow.
Oldest difficult child conspired with other half to get me out of house for "a couple of hours" today so she can do something, though I had already planned to go out as above. She wanted me to go out to lunch/brunch or something but I don't eat but once a day anyway and I had already had meat out to go in crockpot for dinner so if I eat midday I won't eat dinner.
I know she planned on most likely cleaning/picking up house because as par for the norm, no one has been picking up their **** laying around all week and I've been on everyone to do so and she knows it. She likes me to be gone when she goes all out like that because she will blast "her" music and go nuts quickly to get it done.
I worry leaving the younger difficult children with her today though because they aren't in a good way (some days I can get away with it for a short time if they are on a good or semi good/even keel). If they are in bad ways, like they are this morning, everyone just gets fighting and she has no patience and she will go off on them and it's just pure H*LL and I know what goes on when I'm not here and what I will come home to. ~sigh~
But, I do
have to go out today no matter what so I have no choice. I have to wake her up to do it which is never a good thing. It's better that she wakes up on her own (BPer's are notoriously, in my house anyhow, very difficult if you wake them).
So yeah, today will be some grocery shopping, birthday gift getting and wrappings, dinner in crock - something like stroganoff and we'll have egg noodles, green beans and I might pick something up I see and like for dessert. Then it is Survivior Finale (always on Mother's Day, I wonder why that is???). I'm sure they won't be peaceful for it, they never are anymore. I'll try to bribe them with dessert, it might work if I'm lucky and then I'll get the last hourish in peace! LOL
Only 1 week and 2 1/2 days left of school for them and then....OMW! I'll be in daily strife because they will be home all day fighting, arguing, yelling...MOM>>>>I"M BORED!!!!
I can't even yell "calgon take me away" because my darn tub in this place is one of those pre-fab shower enclosures that has a narrow tub that no adult can really sit in. Gah! I miss my old house in NC, it had a beautiful garden tub I could get lost in!
Oh and to top it all off, SO came back from his business trip (to Disneyland of all places no less!) with a really bad head cold so he's sick as a dog!
REALLYYYY?????? Ok, well I'm used to this, like us all. Just another day in the life of a warrior mom......expect no less and be pleasantly surprised....ur ummm....yeah....something like that! lol
Oh and I forgot....I did get a card for Mother's day....from STAR!!!
It was BEAUTIFUL!!! Thank you so very much!