It was one of those days. Can’t teach properly. Actually can’t even think properly. The baby is acting up and likes to climb all over me and mouths whatever book/paper/pen she can grab off us.
Then someone can’t get fractions. Another person can’t get punctuation. Everyone clamouring for his/her turn with me.
I sms-ed dh “I’m slowly going mad.”
And then something else happens to really push things a lil bit further.
Some background : we have a Diamond Water filter affixed to our kitchen sink for yummy tasting water that doesn’t require boiling. Today, we had an upgrade since it is already 5yrs old. However, I did not realise that the new tap has a much longer “neck” than the old one.
The drama starts : While the kids started eating their lunch, I placed our huge stainless steel water dispenser under this new tap to refill it. When the dispenser was full, I put grumpy baby down on the floor to move dispenser back to the kitchen counter top. I suddenly realised that I couldn’t lift the dispenser up. It was stuck under the tap!
I gingerly tried to tilt the dispenser a little to get it out from under the tap. However, a LOT of water spilt out of the dispenser onto the kitchen counter top which then flowed down to the kitchen floor forming a huge puddle. 🙁
Baby almost immediately crawls to toward me wailing away. The rest of the kids continue eating their lunch oblivious to the unfolding drama in the kitchen 🙁 (Ds now peering over my shoulder as I type it claims, “Hey! I didn’t know anything, so not my fault.” 🙄
I continue with my task of bringing the dispenser back to the other kitchen counter. Suddenly I realise that the dispenser is dripping water non-stop from the bottom! I look wildly around for a container large enough to pour the water out.
Zilch. Nada.
I grabbed the largest, unused, clean pot which could only take less than 1/2 of the water in the dispenser! Never mind. I hurriedly brought the dispenser back to the sink so that it can conitnue dipping there as I look for my old Tupperware water dispenser. As I was filling that up, I suddenly remembered that I had put it away coz it had a leak too! Smack head! But thankfully, it is still holding strong – for now.
While all this is happening, the baby continues wailing away even though by now, the older kids had stepped in to carry her away to amuse her. I quickly mopped up the floor with 2 thick towels. Took unhappy baby off her siblings and tried to eat lunch with baby climbing all over me.
My life.
The End. 😀
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Nothing to add that you don’t already know. Just empathizing with you.
Slowly going mad in Canada,
A fellow hs’ing sister-in-Christ
Hey Serene,
What do you do whn negative emotions grip you like that since you say you “slowly going mad”. I think thats an issue that a lot of pp face these days- unable to control their anger and negative emotions. These have negative repucssions on the rest of the pp around us.
Good question Valerie! On bad days, the 1st thing I do is yell or snap at the lucky child that gets in the way 🙁 and then I cry out to the Lord.
But I’d like to think that I have made progress:) I now mostly cry out to the Lord 1st and then I find I have a lot more self-control so I seldom end up yelling. Even when dealing with whiney toddlers.
Taking a step away from the situation also helps me.
Life so “boring”, hor? ;P
Hey dear,
Had a mad day today, too, with my own 3 and the 4 that aren’t my own – but no crazy water spillage and there were a few more pairs of adult hands around.
Tell me about the yelling, man. Prayed this morning, so managed to keep it bottled – then exploded at 9pm tonight. My poor kids….
Can’t imagine throwing a baby into the picture tho…..!!!!
If you really want a baby then you must think and think. Just DO 🙂 Seriously. Life is chaotic enough anyway. You’ll find a way to deal with it. So go for it sister! 😀