Category: Life and stuff


Thank you to those sending well wishes. I am feeling a little better save for my coughing fit while driving (no accidents thanks only to the grace of God.) So much has happened in the past few days. I will blog about it at a later stage inshaAllah (God willing)
PHEW! Alhamdulillah (praise to God) it is all over.

Tomorrow I am child free for a few hours and am very much looking forward to cooking, cleaning and baking without interruption.
Agh, who am I kidding – I think I will do some window shopping, cup of coffee and maybe even kick back and watch a DVD. Who knows, I might just get straight back into bed and have a kip with my cats.
Don’t hate y’all – this doesn’t come by very often for me and I’d appreciate if you cast your evil eye someplace else!

I’m a little bit down today. I don’t know exactly what’s caused this but I just woke up in a particularly foul mood today. I have exhausted every effort to get my boys to get ready by themselves in the morning and nothing is working. It’s tiring to be the nag. It’s tiring to be the nag and NOT be listened to so you have to nag some more. We have a list of things on the chalkboard of all that needs to get done. So must I continually remind them that there is a board. It has the list. Follow the list. Can you please follow the list please. Ok, kids what are you up to now. OK the breakfast is on the table. Pour your milk now. Ok now you have to eat the food. Chew it. Do they really need to be reminded of this? There is only so much nagging I can do before I just snap.

So.

Tomorrow the list will still be there but I am not the nag anymore. I am not responsible for everyone’s everything. If they want me to help, they need only ask and I will do, but – No more nagging not only because I hate to be a nag but also because it just doesn’t work.

This is a cyclical thing. We get into a routine (either that or I just give up!) and everything is fine. Then they start the dawdling again and my nagging starts up again. I know this is a small thing in the grand scheme of life but gosh does it aggravate me!

Lighter blogging will resume shortly but please allow me this one little rant today.

kthx.

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