Kids were giving issues with going to bed so I sat down with them and asked “why they love to do this to me and never to Daddy. I took them to the park today for hours and now I need to work” so they go upstairs and start acting up again, I go up there and Ella gets all upset and says I don’t like her!
Not very often, but even his brother confirmed on Friday that they are always fine with him and go to bed so easily. I think they know I need to be busy and try to take advantage. I think when they go back to school I am going to need to take a big break from night time working and train them both. They stay up way to late and it isn’t good for them or me. I need my time.
I should try the ignore thing for a week, see if that helps any. They seem to fight me wanting them to go to bed, so they are up there acting out more. Maybe if I ignore them they will stop.

I was very on top of things with the kids, they had routine and listened to me. What happened?

Mine are good kids, I have to remind myself of that during those times that I am ready to sell them!

They make me stronger.

Recently I have been thinking about mom friends. You know the ones who you can get together with, your kids play together and you chat about life.

I recently moved and have been spending a lot of time at our new park, there is a great splash pad and park with a covered area with benches and tables.  As I sit there I notice the ladies chatting, their kids are all playing and the moms are talking and enjoying themselves.  I sit there by myself with my iPhone, Facebook and Twitter.  While all of those are great I miss the actual company of a physical human beside me.

I don’t notice it all that often but it seems to really be in my face at the park. Could be because I work at home all day by myself.

Yes I just moved into a new neighbourhood and I still need to meet people, but even in my old neighbourhood I went to the park by myself. People were a lot friendlier there.  While we live in this great new neighbourhood there are no kids around us.  Makes me sad as we had that in our old house, up until the last month when a great family moved in with 3 boys the ages of my kids.

So tonight at dinner I started thinking to myself about how sad it makes me that I don’t have any mom friends who I can call and ask them to meet me, or ones that call me.

Sure I have friends, not like I am all pity me because I am a friendless loser.

But when my kids were little I had “Mom” friends that I regularly saw, our kids played and we chatted about life. I met a great group when my 1st was born, we still continued our regular play dates as we all started having 2nd kids but then something happened…

I started Grace Announcements when my son was 1 and by the time my daughter was born I was busy. I didn’t have as much time, I needed to use nap time for working not forgoing it for human contact. And now that I am at a point in my life where I want it, it isn’t there.

Shows the importance of nurturing friends along with family. With making it a priority to stay in contact with friends.  While I know that I will have friends in my life that will always be there, no matter how much time goes by it doesn’t matter.  We can pickup right where we left off. I am very lucky to have a lifelong friend like that, unfortunately she lives in Ottawa so we don’t get to just see each other whenever we want.

Do you make it a priority to keep all your friends close? Or do you have friends which whom you have grown apart from?

But then you have friends who you put a lot of effort into, you try to contact, you try to setup “dates” but it never works out.

Do you forget about them?

Does it also get to a point in life where you have friends who are moms but you don’t ever get together with kids?