Yesterday was one of those days. Not groundbreakingly horrible, but just an accumulation of unbearable annoyingness.
I’ve used up all my internet and am existing on dial-up, prehistoric, slow as a grandma type speeds. In other words slow. Very slow. It’s my fault. I downloaded a princess movie for Lacey from iTunes and that was it. Because I work online from home, it means that everything takes 6 times as long. This was where my frustration started.
Over the weekend we lost one of our car spaces. Car spaces in Bondi are like gold. You never want to lose them. But we did, and with it came deep sadness. I mourned for that poor car space. My car is now parked a kilometre from our house {okay, it’s more like 300 metres, but still!}. Back to the car a little later on.
At exactly 1pm Lacey woke from her nap and was cranky, mad and more upset than I’d ever seen her. For 90 minutes non-stop she cried. Screamed. Writhed. She tugged at her little ear. I tried to work one handed whilst cradling a extremely cranky toddler whilst wrangling slow internet. At one point my brain near exploded from the stress of it all, so I made the call. The call to Hubby to share the pain. I spoke in broken sentences and told him I was going insane. He talked me down a little and I returned to the screaming. I then called the doctor and made an appointment to get to the bottom of the aching ear.
To get to the car I needed to carry a variety of things: My handbag {heavy}, a carseat {awkward}, a toddler, her three toy dogs, a stroller and my patience. So off we went. All the way to the car a kilometre {oh it sounds better than 300 metres} up the road.
In one hour I jam-packed in a doctor visit {diagnosed an ear infection, again}, chemist stop, banana-buying and back into the car to drive home. I saw behind the steering wheel before driving home and sighed. I’d got through it. Nothing major. Just a bundle of stress that I didn’t need on top of a big workload.
Just when I thought I was home and happy a little voice from the back of car piped up, “Mama. I did wee in my undies.”
And with that I laughed. Because there was nothing much else left to do.
Have you recently had one of those days? How do you make it better?
I hope that the next day will be better 🙂
Oh telle we all have them xx today WILL be better but first. Go upgrade your Internet plan.
Oh I hate those kind of days when things seem to snowball. Sometimes the only thing to do is laugh – then suddenly it all seems a little bit better. Chocolate also helps 🙂 xx
The thing with those days is that you can always start again tomorrow. Here's hoping today is better. Well, it can't get much worse can it?!
Sending you LOTS of love x
ooh no. Yes- i know those days well. Totally overwhelming! Hope today will be better, put that movie on repeat!!
xo em
Oh dear, I have those days and I, too, end up laughing most of the time. Otherwise I'd be hunched in a corner, rocking and sucking my thumb. Hope today is better. x
This means that today will be MUCH better. Outstandingly good in fact. Let's face it. The universe owes you. Hope Lacey is feeling better x
perhaps it was the stars out of alignment or something like that, but yesterday after work, the drive home & then when we got home was just mayhem. it was the same routine as every other monday to friday, and i don't know what it was but levi & penny were driving me absolutely bonkers. levi couldn't even look at penny without her screaming and whining and crying and it just went on and on. i felt so stressed and they had me as there captive audience. there is no way out of a moving vehicle. they had sucked all of the patience out of me. i had never looked so forward to seeing our driveway!! hope lacey is feeling better soon.
I have lived thru far to many of those brain exploding mummy moments! They didn't tell us about them when we were planning for kids. Just as well the highs make up for the stressed overload. Hope Lacy's ear is better today 🙂
Oi – that was a bad one…. I hope today is better!
everytime I have a bad day I will think “at least my car is not parked a kilometre away” thank you.
hope she gets better soon and you get your internet back too. we were shaped last week and it was hell. I told hubby to fix it no matter how much it costs just fix it. He works for our internet provider so I was even more pissed off about it.
oh you poor love, that sounds like a horror day and I'm sure you were glossing over some of it too (as all mamas do). Glad to hear you kept your sense of humour. Thanks for sharing, I love how you keep things real – you're one of my favourite reads <3
Oh dear, poor Lacey. I hope her ear is better today? I am guessing you have to wait until the end of the month until your internet is back up to speed? I hope today is a better day. xx
I too have had a seriously bad day recently, so bad infact that I actually blogged about it & I rarely blog!
http://i-mumma.blogspot.com/2011/07/crap-day-of-epic-proportions.html
Oh yuck. Hope today is better and that little Lacey is feeling better too. x
Oh no! The stars are not aligning or something else is far from right because I too had the week from hell last week. Shall I share some of the events to make you feel like you are not alone?
Monday: Hubby comes home from work early feeling sick. Monday night: 3 year old daughter wakes up and vomits every hour for the entire night.
Tuesday: Got a bill for $500 we were not aware of.
Wednesday: One of the 4mth old twins is coughing. Took her to the Drs, dr said it sounds like whooping cough. We test her and wait for the results. On the way home someone RAN INTO THE BACK OF MY CAR. No one hurt but everyone crying.
Thursday: I wake up with uncontrollable vomiting.
Friday: Still cant get out of bed.
Saturday: twins results back: No whooping cough. A good day! Thinking all is now well.
Sunday: A death in the family – my great uncle.
Like I said, the week from hell!
I can so relate to your situation as I definitely had 'one of those days' on Monday too 🙂 Hope your day will be better today x
Oh earaches are the worst. Noah used to get lots too and once we got his grommets life was far better for everyone involved. Hope today is a better day.
XX
man…you bought bananas??? hope your little one feels better quickly 🙂
Oh dear. This too shall pass!
And I can't believe they have those shirts! I want one! We've been saying that for ages!
Oh Chantelle
I feel your pain.
We have all had some sort of times like those – isn't it horrible.
And the stress it consumes you too.
Breathe deep for now and perhaps go to a coffee shop and hop on their wifi when you can (if you can)
take care
x
Loulou
What I would do is wait for the time to pass put everyone to sleep and vegge out in front of the tv and eat chocolate!!
Poor Lacey, and poor you! I hope tomorrow is a much brighter day for you.
And honestly, how did we ever cope with dial-up speeds!
Sometimes all you can do is laugh. Good on ya for realizing that. 😀
-Sarah
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Oh I had one of those days yesterday too! Full moon perhaps? My 7 week old decided he had had enough of everything. Major crying. Nothing worked. Sad Mumma and baby.
Today, things are back to being good. Phew.
Not a good day you had! I've been there though. As a Nanny for a lot of years, I've been there!
Sorry about the car spot though! Taking even longer to get to the car, is not fun. Especially with a toddler.
Yup… I read your post yesterday and though man that sucks.. and then my day proceeded to go to the pooper!…
My meeting was terrible.. left work late (which left a locked out hubby sitting waiting for me) .. twisted my ankle walking to the bus that meant I took a spectacular fall and ripped a hole in my (newly mended) favourite jeans and grazed my knee (and its the most serious I've seen… darn its deep!), then I managed to twist my ankle again after that (damn I'm talented) then on the way home (being day before payday car is LOW on petrol) car starts OVER HEATING.. then it proceeds to tell my its “Power train” has a fault.. and then well it just stops going in peak hour traffic on the freaking M1 motorway south of brisbane with my 3 year old in the car.. I actually cried!
This morning I was thinking today is a new day.. not sure what I did to piss off the universe yesterday but today is a new day… and then the car decided it wanted a repeat performance on the motorway this morning.. even after it was fed LITRES upon LITRES of water and fuel… Not happy jan!
Only way HAS to be up.. or I'll just fall in a sobbing heap!
Please tell me your week has gotten better!
Oh Chantelle I hear ya!! Yesterday my son also started whinging, crying, cranky etc and telling me his ear was sore, so went to the doctor and he also has an ear infection. Same ear that he had an infection in only 4 weeks ago. Thank goodness he takes his medicine better than my 4 year old! Hope things get better real quick! xx
I'm kinda having one of those today – at least we don't have wet undies : ) And yes, all you can do is laugh.
Steve and I have a code for that. I call him and say “Sanity Break”. I have 2 minutes to destress, to pause myself and calm down and he listens. Sometimes those calls save me even though I know he can't physically do anything to help. x
That's where a hidden block of chocolate for mum helps (and maybe a glass of wine later).
All the time!!! I just have to chill with a hot chocolate and 5 minutes taking my mind off it with a book or even FB.