I had a really rough evening. I can’t put my finger on what put me in a foul mood but it is probably mostly just a little lack of sleep. Pookie has some habits that seem to come out more between 4-6pm. Bad habits.
That’s normally pooping time of night and we are still having trouble convincing him that the bathroom is the best place to take care of that. I think the pressure causes him to do some other annoying things, too.
Normally I can handle this time of day just fine but last night I was home alone with the kids, tired and started snapping at everything and couldn’t seem to stop. Pookie and me ended up arguing a lot more than we needed to during dinner and bath.
I had already sent Pookie to the bedroom to get dressed (after he poured a big picture of water on the bathroom floor). I felt like crap for how bad of a dad I had been so I told Geetle that I was sorry for being grumpy all night.
Without pausing, she replied “Yeah. You almost got an X next to your name.”
When she is going through a stubborn day (which is almost never any more) we have a spot where we put X’s. If you get less than 3 X’s you get to do the fun thing that night.
Ouch. She was right, though, I did deserve an X or two.
I walked right into the bedroom and apologized to Pookie and gave him a big hug. Fortunately, Pookie is the best forgiver in the universe and had already moved on and was waiting for some good stories for story time.
Thank goodness I have a couple kids that help me through this parenting thing.
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I think you are a great dad—WAY better than I would ever be. Keep it up, dude.
love ya.
Thanks. It’s funny how you can be rolling along thinking you have everything under control and then out of nowhere you get a day where it just gets to be overwhelming. Fortunately, it is almost always just a one day thing. I should have found a way to get the kids out of the house. That almost always gets things resettled.