Winter Funkified
Should I write about the funk I’m in? I don’t know.
The boys are sick and have been for what feels like a very long time. One is now being treated for an ear infection, the other a sinus infection. Due to their hacking coughs and the weather, because we’ve just been hit by “the Flurricane,” we can’t really go out.
Yesterday was one of those days where it was just impossible to catch up. The dishes, the laundry, the toys all over the house, the food that needed to be prepared, the fights between a four-year-old and his younger brother - oh, the fights! - I just couldn’t stay on top of all of it. All day we fluctuated between upset silences where everyone tried to breathe, cry and settle down, and the huge, yelling death-matches that had caused them.
And by the end of the day I just wondered where our peaceful, happy abode has gone; it seems like it hasn’t been here for an awful long time.
You need sunshine. I love you.
Sometimes I just think, “if I can just hang on til spring, the sun will come out, the grass will come back, the boys can run.” Boys just aren’t meant to be kept in captivity.
Just think, under all that snow, all that dreary, roots are readying themselves. Spring will soon spring out. Keep hanging on.
When I feel like that, I go around and turn all of the lights on and turn up some music…it helps. It seems like we’ve been sick around here since we came back from Disneyland, over a month ago!! We just keep trading it off - and it’s unending. I feel for you. It will get better, it will!
We just came through almost 3 weeks of ear infections and colds and fevers and almost pneumonia. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
I can empathize. These past few days I have felt the same way. We should plan a mom’s night out. Something fun to look forward to would be nice. Hang in there!
February always seems to put me in a funk. But just think, Monday is March!!! Spring is around the corner. You can make it, I promise.
Ups and downs, babe. It’ll pass soon.
ohmgod i know those times. it seems like everything is “broken” and not working right. the bickering, the lack of keeping on top of all the messes and meals. it’s way hard. only thing that keeps me going is remembering that nothing is permanent. and usually it just means that i, as the mom, have readjust or fine tune. something’s not working. or it’s just that they are sick and once they are healthy again, life will balance out.
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Yep. That’s what we are doing right now too. It is nasty but spring is coming, summer is coming. Soon. And it will all be well.