By 1. When your toddler rips your earring from your ear during a screamy tantrum in her car seat, it’s incredibly hard to distinguish the difference between a dried-up raisin and your lost earring back on the floor of the car. Especially when the only time you have to look for said earring back is after bedtime, in the dark.
2. If I were to refuse the half-eaten offerings from my toddler, I’d probably never get a decent meal.
3. The Buckland Hills mall can be avoided entirely if it weren’t for that Stride Rite. But the carousel on a steamy ninety degree day does help, I’ll admit.
4. Even the most tolerant parents run out of patience at times. Toddlers teach that lesson well, as I found out in my all-time parenting low this week.
5. It’s worth delaying the afternoon nap when your daughter asks to stop everything and dance with you in the middle of the living room floor.
6. It really is possible to love them more today than you did yesterday.
Ohhhh I think we ALL lose it sometimes! It happens. Kids are non-stop exhausting. I just always try to remember, on the hard days, that tomorrow is a new day. 9 times out of 10 it’s just a bad day and things improve…but I’m saying this after carrying a screaming Josh out of the library less than 30 minutes ago with a bright red face and Nate saying “..but I wanted books! Please! Just make him behave!!!” UGH. Here’s to better times!!
Oh yes, nothing like toddlers to teach us the limits of our patience! Such cute pics!
Oh my gosh, #6 melted my heart and it is so, so true! Sorry to hear you had a tough parenting moment this week. Hope you’re hanging in, you are a wonderful mama.