Let me begin by admitting...that it was mostly my fault. I treated today like a day-off and treated my responsibility as a stay-at-home mom/teacher like an opportunity to nap at 10:30 a.m.
I honestly believed that, although I went to bed at 1:30 a.m. this morning, I'd still be able to wake up at 7 to jump on the treadmill and start the day out right (since my kids don't usually wake up until 7:30 at the earliest). HA! My son woke up screeching just before 7, and when I went into his room to take care of him, I realized I had left his window open and that he had been rudely awakened by the crisp morning air.
FAIL.
So I held him for a bit and laid him back in his crib, hoping he'd catch a few more minutes of sleep so that I could crawl back into bed. Didn't really happen that way--he screamed after me and then spent a few minutes talking to himself while I laid with my face buried in my pillow.
I eventually rolled out of bed to feed my children breakfast but barely did anything for the next hour. Instead, I sat on the couch with the kids and watched a terrible cartoon called Bratz Babies. Finally we had Group Time and Story Time, but as I read I kept feeling my eyes shut and my speech slur. So I decided it was best if I took a short nap before I did anything else, like drive. Well, the nap was a lot shorter than I realized (even though I had slept through the entire second showing of Bratz) and I felt even crankier and short-tempered when I woke up. The lack of a decent breakfast probably didn't help.
Long story short, I have not been a good mom today.
I will not be going to bed that late ever again, I will try harder to wake up early enough to work out in the mornings, and I will try to eat a better breakfast than just a waffle and a small cup of milk...even if it means having to pull a pan out of the cabinet to cook some eggs!
So, Universe, let's try this again... I'm optimistic that tomorrow will be a better day than today (and yesterday)!
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