Happy Monday! Hope ya’ll had a great weekend! Ours was
filled with lots of fun stuff! But first, can I mention my Monday?!
Monday’s are mine and Tanner’s day at home. The day when I
get a lot accomplished. Today we had to go to the wonderful world of Wal-Mart.
Yay. Not so much. Question for you moms with toddlers…how do you do it? I
called my hubby before we left to see if he needed anything and he said good
luck. Luck is exactly what I needed. Our trip started off great. I found his
favorite cart where he can ride like a big boy. When he got a little irritated
shortly thereafter I pulled out the sucker I had brought from home (along with
a wet paper towel because I knew it would be a sticky hot mess afterwards). We
were doing great again until the sucker fell on the floor and broke into a
million pieces. Okay, okay. We found some rice cakes in an aisle on the other
side of the store. Yes, I’m that mom who opens the pack and lets him chomp down
as I finish my shopping (and yes, I bought them lol). The rice cake was huge,
so we’re doing good again. Until we finish it and then we see bananas in the
produce section when I’m almost done. Wowzers is all I have to say. We finally
get to the checkout and the poor girl checking us out is only about 18. She was
either frightened or nervous by my child’s behavior that she didn’t speak at
all. He pitched a fit…like the one where he screams and goes bananas.
What to do? I can’t put him in time-out in Wal-Mart. I can’t say you’re going
to be in big trouble when you get home. He doesn’t understand that. So he just
pitched a fit with all of Wal-Mart watching. Trevor merely laughed when I
called him and told me I should have gone by myself yesterday. Well duh, I
totally agree but I can’t change that now. Plus, he needs to get out and
understand how to act in public. All I have to say about that is....oh the joys of being a momma!
As frustrated, embarrassed and mad as I got, I forgot every
last bit of it when he hugs my neck and says momma when we got home. It all
disappears when I tickle him and he says tick-a-tick-tick-a-tickle and laughs
so hard. Or when he kisses me and says night, night. He finds his bear and
walks up the stairs to take his nap like he’s 8 years old. It makes
me stop and realize for just a minute…he’s a toddler, not a baby anymore, but a 20
month old boy who’s growing up wayyyy too fast. He’s going to pitch fits, that’s
what I did when I was his age. Doesn’t your mom ever tell you, ‘he/she’s acting
just like you when you were that age’? He's not perfect and neither am I. At the end of the day, I love him to the moon and back and I just want to be the best mom I can to him. I want to teach him to be patient, have manners, not to pitch a fit. But lets get real, it doesn't happen with one trip to Wal-Mart or even ten trips to a restaurant. We have to keep trying and working hard on behavior.
Moral of the story, being a mom is tough
but loving your child unconditionally is what matters most.
So any advice on how to attempt an outing with your
toddler/child, please feel free to pass along =)
In other news, we visited the zoo this weekend with my friend Liz and her sweet lil boy. We had so much fun! Tanner loved seeing all
of the animals. Trevor and I had a
much needed dinner by ourselves Saturday night…thanks Cha Cha! And we all enjoyed church yesterday
morning and having family time the rest of the day. Weekends go by way too fast!
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| Let's do this dad! |
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| Sweet giraffes...ahhhdorable! |
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| He says hello :) |
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| Nothing better than riding on daddy's shoulders! |
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| Checking out the cat, as Tanner says :) |
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| Cold, but fun day with my family and friends! |
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| Surprise from Trevor for the sweet boys! |
One day I’ll print all of the blog posts about Tanner
and save them for him. Maybe one day (far down the road) when he has kids of
his own, he’ll look back at this post and laugh. And I’ll say, that’s exactly
how you acted when you were his/her age =)
Enjoy the rest of your Monday! I'm off to get lots of things accomplished while the wild man is napping. Until next time...
Magan
I had to laugh when I read this! I thought my kid was the only psycho in Wal-Mart! I made the mistake of letting her walk on time in the grocery store and that's all she wrote. no more riding in the buggy for us! Now I have to chase her and shop at the same time.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got a laugh out of it and glad that it's not just my child who acts like a hot mess :) He'll only ride in one particular buggy and if they don't have one at that time then we run around like a wild person too! Oh the joys!
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