today

Today was one of those days where my kids found it necessary to yell everything. Jack was annoyed with, and therefore tried to sabotage, everything anyone Ana did. If she wanted to dance, he laid down in the middle of the floor right in her way. And most of the time he was saying something like, "Don't do the dishes, Mommy.... Don't take a shower, Mommy.... Don't drink your juice, Ana." And while running errands, the kids were all over the place.

It was overall an exhausting Mommy day. Some days are like that I guess. Days when a hot shower and a few minutes of silence can work magic. I may become an evening shower-er. There is something about the quiet house that makes a shower infinitely more enjoyable. Without the threat of children coming in crying, or telling you to get out, or throwing their bath toys in to annoy you...

Speaking of showers, have you heard? This spring has been rainy. Ana has started lamenting it. ("Rain, again!!!" She'll say when she wakes up.) Then I remind her she can use her umbrella. Then I send them outside and happily ignore my housework while I watch them play in it.