So Wednesday was OK. I was a little better from my cold, but still in a lot of pain from my headache. I took both Advil and Tylenol, not something I usually resort to, but I didn't feel like I had an alternative. Solomon and a combination of my sisters took care of almost all the details of life. Tykah singlehandedly made dinner, served the kids, and cleaned the kitchen after! Wow girl, you rock!!! I was fairly good with the kids, staying patient at moments when I usually get frustrated and cranky. In the evening, for cleanup time, I sat in a recliner and directed the kids on cleanup. There were some moments of frustration as I tried to get an individual child's attention, but even as I raised my voice to get through the distraction and other noise in the room, I was doing it to be heard, not because I was angry. I am glad it was like that.
Today, Thursday, was not as good in the patience department. I did get angry several times today, and was much less self aware than I would have liked. It is interesting to me that the closer to healthy I get, the less easy I find it to be patient. I have no idea what that is about at all! As I was much more able to do things today, I did the Taxi thing today, and even ran to the grocery store for some last minute things for dinner. I took Cirdan and Zoe along, and for the most part it was a fine trip. Cirdan started begging for treats at the checkout line, and Zoe got impatient and fussy in the car on the way back, but other than that the kids were great. I did OK on handling Cirdan's begging, I could have been more sympathetic, and heard that he really wanted a treat, while still lovingly denying the request. I was more authoritarian than I had to be, so I'll try to do that better in the future.
I gave Jaden two time outs today, and that is saying something! He has been old enough for timeouts for a long time now, but I usually chicken out on following through on them. He has perfected the long drawn out pout after a timeout that makes you think it's not worth the effort in the first place. But today I was good and gave timeouts anyway when they were needed. Jaden has gotten into a hitting phase lately, and he really needs to understand that it's not OK to hit.
On the exciting side of things for Jaden He went potty on the potty for the first time this afternoon!!!! He then proceeded to only use the potty for the rest of the day!!! Of course now I need to watch out for night terrors as he does this potty training thing. Sigh. Oh well that's OK, we've done this twice already, I just have to remind myself what we did then.
