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• Mother’s Day 2019

  Posted at 1:20 pm by CS, on May 13, 2019

  This year for Mother’s Day I wanted to relax and just have a do nothing sort of day. Well for the most part that’s exactly what happened, but we are in the middle of packing up the house to move back east (another blog for another day), so it wasn’t ALL relaxing.

  First, my husband is on some work travel so he wasn’t even around to help me celebrate, but I got the exact present I wanted this year which was tickets to see Thomas Rhett in concert later this year! So he did very good! Even if I sort of spelled out what I wanted. But don’t we always.

  

  Then my wonderful daughter made me 3 separate art pieces this year. She is getting to be super creative for someone who is only a year and a half. I know I will cherish these pieces for years to come because they are the first pieces she’s created for me.

  

  Now on to how we spent Mother’s Day. As I stated before my husband is out of town, but his loss is my gain because my mom is out here helping us with the move so that means I not only got to spend Mother’s Day with my daughter, but also my mom too. Now the day started boring because we had to go grocery shopping for the week. But we treated ourselves to some champagne for mimosas and donuts for breakfast. Then once we got back home, we popped the champagne and cheers to a relaxing day. Which it was until my wonderful daughter decided to have a full on meltdown when she got up from her nap. I’m talking, screaming, crying, snot filled nose, drooling, gasping for air, and making the noises of possibly throwing up. All because I needed to wash her blanket…so noted to never do that again. We, finally got her to calm down and she went on about her business like nothing happened. That called for another mimosa.

  We then spent the rest of the evening just playing together, having beef tips and potatoes for dinner, then bedtime routine and lights out. It was super simple and that’s what I LOVE about getting to celebrate this day. If I could stay in my pajamas all day, drink mimosas, and watch home videos, I would call that an A+ Mother’s Day in my book!

  I hope you all had a wonderful day celebrating you! Tell me what was your favorite part of your day?

  Posted in Mom-ing | 0 Comments | Tagged concert, dinner, donuts, home video, mimosa, Mother’s Day, relaxing, tantrum, Thomas Rhett

• Too early for terrible twos?

  Posted at 11:27 am by CS, on April 8, 2019

  Just shy of her turning 18 months old, this weekend Cameron gave us a run for our money. She was testing all sorts of waters and boundaries.

  She wanted to go upstairs and we wouldn’t let her, she wanted to move the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs and we wouldn’t let her. Then we rigged it so that it wouldn’t move at all and that upset her. The tantrums then started in full force. Tears flowing, snot and drool forming in flood like levels. She was throwing herself back on to the floor and was inconsolable. I thought we had another few months before we saw any traits of her terrible two stage. Apparently she wanted to get a jump on this next phase in life and to keep us on our toes.

  Considering this is a new chapter for us as a family I tried to figure out how best to approach the situation. She is still learning and trying to understand what boundaries she can push and what limits we will set for her.

  Here’s how we attempted to handle this. First, I let her cry it out. I tried not to raise my voice at her because I knew that would only cause more issues. But I did use my stern “mom” voice when letting her know what she was doing was not ok.

  Second, I removed her from the situation. She kept trying to get up the stairs and move the baby gate, so once I was done using my mom voice I would pick her up and move her away from the area. Just so she knew that we were not to play on the stairs. Granted, she kept going back and before we fixed the baby gate she did end up getting up the stairs once or twice. When she succeeded, I knew it was partly because she wasn’t listening, and partly because we didn’t have the baby gate secure so I knew it was not fully her fault so how could I punish her when she was still learning. She did get put in a 2 min timeout where I sat her down and spoke to her about exactly why she was in trouble. I told her I understood that she wanted to go upstairs, that the excitement of being upstairs was fun but she needed to listen to mommy because I just want her to be safe.

  Third, we created a distraction. Now, I understand bribing a child isn’t the best way to deal with things, and I wouldn’t call what we did a bribe, but while she was crying and screaming and throwing her tantrum, after removing her from the situation I would sit with her on my lap and try to calm her down and put on one of her favorite shows or movies. Just showing her I was there for her I think diffused the situation a little more quickly.

  Now I know that we have more mountains to climb since she’s not quite two yet and I do see more tantrums coming our way, but hopefully learning some more tips will help us be able to handle them if they happen to come about as she is still testing the waters on what she can and can’t do. I want her to have confidence and be independent, but I also want her to learn to listen and be disciplined.

  Posted in Mom-ing, W(h)ine-ing | 1 Comment | Tagged baby, blog, crying, discipline, mom, tantrum, terrible two

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