Don't know if I should laugh or cry!

[Stephanie2]

Tantrums, seriously? This is good stuff! You had me LMAO!!! And I have never used that acronym, so you know that was good! Now if only we could get this stuff published in the name of PANDAS research. Instead of Chicken Soup for the Pandas Soul, I like "Rants from PANDAS Moms"...

 

 

 

Don't feel bad about not knowing how to open the wine! I seriously just started drinking 6 months ago. Just never liked the taste much. HOwever, after a rage attack about 6 months ago, my neighbor gave me a bottle of wine (she opened it LOL) and it's been downhill since Suddenly, wine tastes GREAT!!!!! I frequently mess up opening them bc I got one of those air pump openers. Don't work if the cork isn't natural and how the heck am I supposed to know when they have wax on top???

 

I have been known to stand in the middle of the house and announce "I have a garbage bag and I'm using it in 10 minutes!!!" Suddenly I get help cleaning stuff up I feel like ALL I do when I'm home is follow people around picking up their crap! If I ask DS to do it - I have to ask three times and then he gets irritated bc he was GOING TO. Keep in mind, I just had a spinal fusion less than a year ago and the bending isn't a great activity for me.

 

My favorite saying right now is "I have a screw loose!" because literally I do. A screw is broken in my spine and I don't have the time to deal with it! People are amazed that I can joke about it, but what else CAN I do at this point??? I'm looking forward to having brain surgery next year so I get some time off!

 

I try my best to maintain calm with DS. I've found that helps him stay calmer of course. But I have been known to turn into a huffing, garbage bag weilding beast just cause I stepped on one too many legos! He has a puzzle taking up my entire kitchen table that he has been working on for weeks now and I "accidentally" spilled water all over it. It's still there. Throwing it out wasn't an option. It cannot leave until it's finished but he is so busy running from one activity to the next that he can't focus on the puzzle and get it out of my sight! It's a 2500 piece puzzle! I don't want to look at it anymore. I want it off my table!!!

[LaraM]

Oh Stephanie, I am so sorry! I am still trying to get my e-mail out to you...but DS7 and DS5 abandoned Bruce Banner peace for the Hulk a couple days ago. Bruce is coming back thankfully--toy jail works too. My sister's brilliant idea of cutting out "bars" in a large cardboard box that she kept on top of the refrigerator. If the kids didn't pick up their stuff, it was sentenced to toy jail for a week or longer depending on how ticked she was that they never picked up their stuff. I'm telling you, toy jail is a winner!