Time

I keep running out of time.  I keep wanting to think of a new post and then I'm asleep on the couch.  I worked for a bit last night on a post --but I copied and pasted a number of things for the internet and then it wouldn't copy properly to the blog.....really irritating.  So I chunked the whole thing (I didn't like it that much anyway).

Earlier today, when my son was at preschool, my daughter clung to me like a koala bear the entire morning.  She is a bit under the weather and had some vaccinations & flu shot yesterday.....so there was my morning.

Every day- my son has at least one hysterical breakdown.  Today's was epic.  We got home from preschool and he wanted cereal for lunch.  Not the best lunch ever but at least it was something.  I put his mini wheats in a bowl with milk and he just lost it.  Absolutely lost it.  He wanted chocolate milk on his cereal.  Since that would be disgusting, I poured him a glass of chocolate milk....which proved unsatisfactory so he threw it onto the ground.  He tried to leave in a huff to watch tv so I beat him to the other room and turned the tv off.  He stormed into the kitchen, took his full bowl of cereal and threw it across the kitchen---- milk and soggy mini wheats everywhere.  I mean everywhere.  So that happened.

I will say that he is very quietly playing by himself now.....after an hour in time out.  And- he ate his peanut butter sandwich without a word when he came back downstairs.  Just exhausting.

Aside from the blog (which is really for fun), I'm also trying to start a music teaching business (for voice and piano students).  I'm terrified because I want to be really, really good at it.  I want to be really prepared and organized and energized....but have no time due to the temper tantrums, koala bear hugging and down right tiredness.  I guess I need to start rallying around 9 PM each night to work and get some things organized while every young thing in our house is asleep.

By the way-- does anyone else have a kid's toy that involves this moon dough stuff?  It's like a powdery, molding dough that never dries out and can be manipulated into a million shapes.......it's fantastic for kids and terrible for clean up.  I've been picking pieces of it up in my house for the last hour and it's still everywhere.

Well-- 2nd kid is up from their nap....time for the next chapter of fun to begin!