Day by day

Today was literally a day from hell. No one big thing happened that was horrible, it was just a series of neverending crappiness. I couldn't get myself into a good mood and my children followed suit.....all....day....long. I finally ended up putting them both to bed early. I thought that my bad day had ended, but not so. Still more stuff happened to ensure that this post would be true. It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day as Alexander would say. And I am seriously contemplating moving to Australia, except that I know the end of that book, so it's useless to do that. All I can do is go to bed and hope and pray that tomorrow will be better than today was.

One piece of silver lining to my day though happened as I was tucking in my 4 year-old. I was singing her requested songs and in the middle of it all, she said she was sorry for being so horrible and mean to me all day. And it was actually sincere. I think she had actually been thinking about it for a while. That did make my heart melt. She is actually learning something. And she does actually know right from wrong. And it made up for the fact that she had been mean to me pretty much all day long. She asked if I could ever forgive her and I told her, of course.

It just goes to show me that though I may feel pessimistic about motherhood sometimes, my children are listening and some things are sinking in. A little payday!