It was a long weekend. The kids, were.... uh.... they were.... umm... challenging. I have to write part of it off to my son's allergies, a great deal of activities on Saturday, and to staying up well beyond their very routine and established bedtime, but they really were pressing every button imaginable. We've been practicing some techniques we've learned to get more control over some of the things they do. Perhaps it's working just enough that they're trying extra hard to illicit a reaction for their negative behavior that there were receiving up until recently.
Whatever the case, it was a long weekend, and even this morning, dropping them at preschool, it was all I could do to not react in any way to them when they were not being well behaved. I had to get out of the car and step back for a few minutes to just collect myself, and of course, to swig a couple of shots from my iFlask.
On one fun note, I had the opportunity on Sunday morning to pass along another wonderful milestone of childhood to them. When I was a kid, we'd put a playing cards onto the bike using a clothespin so they'd stick into the spokes and produce a "motor" like sound. Well, clothespin are not things we have around the house, and I didn't want to ruin a perfectly good deck of cards, so some tape and business cards works just as well, and they're thrilled with the results.
