After two weeks of Andy being sick and one week of Amanda home from a fever, we topped it off this week with fall break. One week of all three kids home from school (except for two days when Amanda had her Spanish school) after being stuck at home for so long with sickos is enough to drive me to the brink. Top it off with me making several appointments this weeks - well visits, dentist, other random doctor appointment and fall pictures of the kids - that required the kids to "be on their best behavior" and I am done. Put a fork in me!
All this means is that I have a very low level of patience or threshold for irrational behavior. Unfortunately I have a three year old, and they thrive on irrational behavior. I don't know what happened to my happy go lucky, low key little girl, but all of a sudden Amanda has decided that she wants to push buttons and be in control and not do anything that we ask her to do. I'm hoping that it has something to do with the fact that we are totally off schedule this week and we're wearing her out, but I really think she's just decided that it wouldn't be fair for her to go through her three's without torturing me a little bit.
Thankfully she has school tomorrow morning and the older kids will be back to school on Monday. I just have to make it through one more day of Andy torturing the girls and then we are back to normal. If what we have going on here is normal. On the plus side, I just went to check on her in bed and when I leaned down next to her she said, "Mommy, I love you." I never get tired of that, and it sure will help me make it through tomorrow.
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