........that is what Mimi put me through this week! And somehow I survived it! Maybe that's why why I never watched all of those survival reality shows. Cause I'm actually living it.
All this week to put it lightly, Mimi was a real pill! We had a huge and I mean huge blow out yesterday morning. It's the talking back, lollygagging in the morning, and then some. The only day she did not lollygag was the day of the field trip. Then she was up and ready at the crack of dawm. Hmmmm, what's up with that??? It was really starting to get to me. I had to practically drag her to school. She went there kicking and screaming all the way. As I passed my friends on the way, I asked if it was too early to start drinking.
Just after arriving to school, we had a talk with the teacher regarding her behaviour. Teacher says that basically Mimi is an angel when she is in school. Somehow that is not coming across to the home life.
I was sooooooo happy to see Lisa when she brought Emily to the house and we went for a long walk around the lake. By the time we were finished, man was I exhausted. But it was a good kind of tired. Butch was thoroughly pooped out too.
For quite some time I had been thinking about WHY Mimi has been acting the way she does. I shared this with Lisa and Rhonda and my thinking is that it's because her little world is getting ready to change in a couple of months and she is not sure how she feels about this situation.
When I went to pick her up from school, she was all smiles and kisses and the teacher said that she had a great day. But when we got home........that was another story. Again, there was another humongous blow up. Then came the " I HATE YOU!!!" Ahhhh, don't you just love those. A phone call was put into dad as he was on his way home warning him about the rough waters ahead and to be on the look out. Finally I was able to get Mimi to decompress and that is when all of the screaming, hugging, tears came flooding out of her.
Tried getting her to use her words but all she could do was scream into my bosom, cry and hug me hard and I mean hard. I hugged her hard right back. I figured that the girl has so many mixed up emotions in her that she just doesn't know how to express herself. So when she calmed down, we talked.
She asked me "mom, why do people take off their wedding rings and smash them?" "What???" I thought to myself. "Where did this come from Mimi" Somehow she got the idea that dad and I are going to split up. Dad and I had a stupid argument which was out of pure frustration of daily life and such. Mimi heard us and in her mind, we were going to split up. I definitely had some explaining to do. Then she was worried about how it's going to be having a little sis around and that we may love and care about her more than we do Mimi.
Needless to say we had a long, long, long conversation with the girl last night about how much she means to us and how much we mean to each other.
She is feeling so much better today thankfully.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
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