I need strength.

Dear Lord Please grant me the strength to deal with this child patiently. I am loosing my patience at an alarming rate and don't know if I will be able to deal with these next 15 years or if I will be forced to run away from home, go to Hawaii and become a bum on the beach (sorry honey, I really do love you but my sanity is important to me).

This once darling little child of mine is becoming the most impatient human being on the face of the earth. He goes from Happy to down right annoyed, angry and upset in zero point zero seconds flat. There are days I am ready to sign him up for military school!

I thought the twos were supposed to be the terrible age? Why are we dealing with worse tantrums now that he is four?

The good, the bad and the heartbreaking!

Tonight has had a little bit of everything in it.

The good:

I went to Target tonight. Kris took Zack with him to run a few errands. Armed with my coupons and vague list of what I wanted to get I roamed the aisles. I came home with $95 worth of stuff and I only paid $30.77. I also came home with a $5 gift card.

The Bad:

I decided to make chicken fajitas for dinner. I baked my chicken earlier and sliced it up. When Kris came home from work I caramelized a whole onion, added the chicken to the pan, put in the spices, added a bit of water. I turned around and decided to put the dishes away while the chicken heated up. I went to put away a juice sized glass and hit the cabinet door (which I failed to open completely). The glass shattered into hundreds of pieces (I am amazed it didn't slice open my hand). Pieces of glass everywhere!
I didn't have a cover on the pan of chicken and with all the hundreds of teeny tiny pieces we could not take a chance of eating it so in the trash it went and out to a sandwich shop we went.

The Heartbreaking:

I told Zack today he was going to stay at Grandmas house tomorrow night. All day he has been super excited. He has been telling me all things he is going to do at Grandmas house.
* I am already feeling sad about him not being with me but I need a break and I think he does too.
Tonight I get him ready for bed, we read a book, say prayers and we have our few minutes of cuddle time (we do this every night). As I am telling him how much I love him, he bust out into tears. A few minutes go by before he could tell me what was wrong. My heart broke! "I am going to miss you, you need to stay with me Mommy!" I feel so bad.

Not sleepy.

Tonight I called to Zack and told him it was time for bed. He responded with "But Mom, I am not sleepy, I am all powered and energied up".

A childs Answers

A friend of mine posted her answers to this on Facebook and I just had to ask Zack and see what he would say. Some of his answers are sweet, some funny and some just down right wrong.

1. What is something mom always says to you?
Zack: No
(Can you tell what kind of day we are having)?

2. What makes mom happy?
Zack: Cuddle time.

3. What makes mom sad?
Zack: Not having cuddle time.

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Zack: tickle

5. What was your mom like as a child
Zack: Being as a child.
(I am not quite sure what this means and he couldn't seem to give me an explanation).

6. How old is your mom?
Zack: 8 years old.

7. How tall is your mom?
Zack: 3 inches of course.
(I know I am short but does he have to make me feel worse).

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Zack: Work
(Now I know my child doesn't know a thing about me)!

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Zack: Find me

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Zack: singing.
(HA, keep reading)

11. What is your mom really good at?
Zack: Jumping rope.

12. What is your mom not very good at?
Zack: Singing, your really not good at singing.
(I guess I will become famous for being a bad singer).

13. What does your mom do for her job?
Zack: Work.

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Zack: Toast is your favorite food.

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Zack: Doing proud things.

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Zack: Emery (chuggington)

17. What do you and your mom do together?
Zack: Cuddle and go places.

18. How are you and your mom the same?
Zack: Both of us have teeth.
(Well that is a good thing).

19. How are you and your mom different?
Zack: Glasses (pointing to mom) no glasses (pointing to himself).

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Zack: by cuddling and kissing and hugging.

21. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
Zack: IHOP and Chick-fil-A
(This is news to me).

Easter Sunday 2010.

Happy Easter!

We had had some fun this week including a fun April Fools day dinner, going to the local creamery, which you will be hearing about in a few days. We did some Easter crafts to make the house look a little more like Easter. We went on an Easter Egg hunt, went to see the Easter Bunny, dyed eggs and have been outdoors blowing more bubbles than any human should blow.

On April 1st, I made a silly dinner for Zack. He had chicken nuggets which were actually vanilla Oreo cookies with peanut butter spread over the outside and covered in crushed cereal. He had mashed potatoes with gravy which was ice cream with caramel sauce. He had a cup cake which was turkey meatloaf with colored mashed potatoes spread on top to look like frosting. The kicker was the juice. He picked up his cup but nothing would come out. He looked into the cup and was trying to tell me something was wrong. Finally he poked it and laughed out loud, "Mom this isn't juice it's jell-o!" (I forgot to take a picture of the juice but here is the rest of the meal).
We went on an Easter Egg hunt at a bounce house place. It was put on by a church, they would not let parents of 4-5 year olds help but when my little one got stuck trying to climb into a bounce house I went to help. He lost all his eggs when he dropped his basket. Of course he was very upset over that so I grabbed one and put it in his basket and I got a talking to by one of the church members. Once he came to the realization that my kid lost all his eggs from his basket when he dropped it, he was OK with it. Come on what mom wouldn't make sure her kiddo had at least one egg in his basket. I know if Zack didn't come out of there with something in his basket he never would have done another egg hunt again since he is the type of kid that remembers everything and keeps it locked away. He did go on to find 3 more eggs that were stuck under a bounce house, one if which was a metallic egg which won him a prize. Luck was on his side.
Here he is picking eggs from the front of this obstacle course (he is in a red shirt with white basket)
We visited the Easter Bunny after the egg hunt. This is the first year we were able to take our own pictures, Yes to a $20 savings!!

Here he is dyeing the eggs. He had a great time doing that. Anytime I tried to help, I was politely informed that he could do it himself.

Here he is blowing bubbles with his newly won prize of 3D bubbles. He loves it.
Kris decided to go for a walk and let Zack ride his bike to the park a little while ago. When they opened the door and Zack stepped out I hear him screaming for me to come outside and look. The Easter bunny left a note and some eggs outside with candy in them! The note said there was a dozen eggs hidden around the yard for him to find. He was thrilled to say the least. Can I just say what great neighbors I have, you see we were going to put eggs out in the back yard later on in the day so this was a surprise for all of us. The Easter bunny really does exist.