{"id":1179,"date":"2013-05-16T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2013-05-16T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:34:01","slug":"three-is-here-with-a-vengence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Three is here with a vengence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man.  I am completely wiped out and tired of this week.  Three is here with a vengeance and I&#8217;m ready for things to steady out.  I need to go back and read my journal from when Erik was three to see what his major malfunction was.  I think it was a lot of screaming and not cooperating.<\/p>\n<p>Elsa&#8217;s major malfunction is taking everything so personally and crying uncontrollably over every real or perceived problem.  Don&#8217;t you dare look at her.  If she decides it hurts, she&#8217;ll cry so hard you&#8217;ll be looking for the bee that stung her.<\/p>\n<p>We had 45 minutes of hysterical screaming because she didn&#8217;t want lemonade.  Completely random.  I don&#8217;t drink lemonade.  She was not offered lemonade.  She&#8217;s never been offered lemonade.  She&#8217;s never HAD lemonade.  We&#8217;ve never discussed lemonade.  She was sitting on the floor, playing with toys.  Suddenly she was screaming about not wanting lemonade.  <\/p>\n<p>Someone better grant me some patience, STAT.  Mike is stressed out over work and working super late, which gives me almost no time to cook a proper dinner.  Erik is having behavioral issues at school (talking, non-stop.  Shocker).  My house is a pigzaster, which I should be working on right now.  I want to re-organize my kitchen, but first I need to sand down and paint a book shelf that someone gave me that is a key part of the plan.  It is raining right now so I can&#8217;t start that project.  <\/p>\n<p>Woe is me, woe is me. <\/p>\n<p>Life is not bad, it is just irksome.  I need to break out a to-do list and calm myself down.  I always forget how much that helps me focus.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to stop with the afternoon socializing.  That&#8217;s my cleaning time and I&#8217;m giving it up to go on playdates.  I much rather socialize than scrub a toilet, but I guess there are times in this life when a toilet really needs to be scrubbed.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I hate being a giant, fat cow.  Eating chocolate all day to relieve the stress adds to my self-hatred.  Looks like I could figure out that I need to stick to the damned diet, but I am a super cranky person when I&#8217;m dieting and am mean to my kids.  Given the option of a slightly less fat, but grumpy mom or a fat, nice mom I am guessing they are going for nice.  Now, just tell that to my damned pants.  Maybe I could start by quitting the chocolate habit.  I don&#8217;t want to hear one single hint, tip or weight loss crap.  I know it is a problem with my own brain and I am my own worst enemy.  I can&#8217;t seem to stop myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man. I am completely wiped out and tired of this week. Three is here with a vengeance and I&#8217;m ready for things to steady out. I need to go back and read my journal from when Erik was three to see what his major malfunction was. I think it was a lot of screaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}