THROUGH THE RINGER

........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.

MORE PICS FROM THE WOODLAND PARK ZOO

ON THE BUS

.......to Woodland Park Zoo.

STILL WAITING

Put a phone call into the USAA office today and was told that Norman is in China and won't be back until April 6th. Maybe he is working on getting our referals????????? Oh I do hope so. None the less we have an appointment to get our fingerprints done again for the umpteenth time.

FIRST SIGN OF SPRING

Last Sunday was the first day of Spring. My backyard is still sparse
despite the Daffodils that are starting to bloom. My Tulips and
Hyacinths are sprouting buds but no flowers as of yet. By summer we
should have a beautiful yard once again. Unbeknownst to Mimi, dad
purchased a outdoor playset last night. She had been really wanting
one ever since we moved up here to Maple Valley. She wore me down and
I was able to talk dad into getting a small wooden playset. I was
partially wanting to get it for myself as I was looking down the road
to what is in store for me with our next chili pepper.

MY ANGEL'S BACK

After a week of yadda, yadda, yadda's, roiling of the eyeballs, then
there were the "Oh yeah you are" when I resigned as her laundry lady,
sprinkled with a bit of profanity, Mimi has learned her lesson I am
happy to announce.

ROUGH WATERS

Not only did the tsunami hit the country of Japan but it hit here at our house as well. How can someone with such an angelic face and so small be soooo EVIL?! And to think that we are going for chili pepper #2. Am I a gluten for punishment or what?

For the most part Mimi is a really good kid but man oh man did she give me a run for the money this week.

All week long it has been the snotty attitude. Also I must mention the lies has started. I then tell the kid that she is not a good liar. She always gets caught so she may as well give it up.

Then when I told her that I am going to quit folding her clothes since I found her clean clothes all piled up on her closet floor and strewn about her room, the girl says with the snide remark "yeah, you are. You're going to fold my clothes" I think not. Then there was the "so what's?!" sprinkled with several "damn's"

By yesterday I was soooo through with the kid and I brought out the big guns. All electronics were taken away, you know, tv, computer, DSi's, Wii's, CD player, MP3 player, DVD, walkie talkie, yup, I think that's about it. Then the even bigger gun came out when the girl had a total meltdown about the electronics being taken away........no birthday/sleepover at Erin's tomorrow night. The plan is also for her to take Erin's present over to the house and explain to Erin WHY she is not able to join in the fun.

Then came last night when the invite to Kate & Ethan's party came. Mimi opened it up this morning and I explained to her that if this nasty attitude keeps up, she will miss out on that party too. No skin off of my nose.

My angel is back. Need I say more?