Kiersten’s Blog

Sometimes I wonder how much longer I’m going to be sane.  Maybe I’m already insane.  My daughter is driving me crazy.  You may remember this.  I don’t know what the problem has been the last two days but I’m sure tired of it.  Maybe it’s the lack of routine.  Usually she goes to pre-school on Fridays, but it was cancelled last minute yesterday.  We went to the lake and fed the ducks instead.  It was a fun alternative activity and both kids were really good.  The hard parts started yesterday afternoon.  Of course she refuses to nap.  Then quiet time becomes “time for London to try anything she can to get out of quiet time.”  That becomes not so much fun for her parents.

I’m pretty sure her actions are ways for her to get attention.  Maybe she feels like Ashton is getting more attention and she wants it.  She does everything possible to make me mad at her.  She even hit me once yesterday and once today.  I don’t know where she gets that because I have NEVER hit her.  Sure, I’ve spanked her once or twice, but never hit.  And even so, I can count the number of times she’s been spanked on one hand.  But nevertheless, I guess she’s starved for attention.  She wants it, whether it’s negative or positive.  This afternoon after coming home from running a few errands as a family, I left again by myself.  London threw a fit because she wanted to come with me.  Of course I didn’t want to take her.  She was rude and disobedient all day.  Why would I reward that?  So I left her home with Taylor to deal with the craziness.  She’s not as bad around him.  She wants the attention from me.  Maybe I need to re-evaluate.  I guess she needs some London/Mommy time.  Maybe that would help us both to me more sane.

I need some pie.