As a working mom, mornings are mostly stressful -- and then you still have a day full of work-stresses ahead of you.
in a very particular wayIn this dream, I quietly creep down the stairs, careful not to disturb the silence of the house. I make a cup of coffee, and then I sit, alone, in the quiet, sipping my coffee and watching the latest episode of whatever guilty pleasure I feel like binging. Sometimes in this dream, I refill my coffee mid-episode, and return to my spot in the couch, undisturbed.
So, we come downstairs and I spend the first hour of my day trying to keep him as quiet as possible. “BABA! BABA!,” he yells as we hit the landing. He wants his morning bottle, now. No, not now, like a minute ago, or earlier. It’s already too late. “BABA!!!,” he screams and thrashes as I struggle to fill his bottle from a full gallon while balancing his flailing self on my hip. Because doing that is a nearly impossible task, it almost always spills. MyMy son drinks his bottle while watching.
While I wait for my coffee to brew, I peel and slice his apple. I put the pieces in a bowl and place it on the table in front of him. He takes one look in the bowl and is completely offended. With the swipe of an arm, the apples and the bowl are on the ground. In a desperate attempt to both not waste the apple and try to teach him that if he asks for an apple, he should eat the apple, I pick up the pieces, put them in a covered snack container, and hand it back to him.
My daughter begrudgingly makes her way downstairs. And like any four-year-old who should have slept longer, she’s made it a priority to be uncooperative. The list of demands starts. She wants breakfast, butright now. She doesn’t want to go to school. She wants to wear pajamas today. She wants to wear pajamasday. My husband leaves early for work, and she wants to see him. She refuses to believe that it’s impossible. She wants nothing to do with me.
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