What a way to wake up….

Tuesday morning I woke up earlier than I wanted because I heard Lou moving around in the kitchen.  He squeaked in the door the night before just as I was falling asleep so I wanted to spend some time with him before he left for work.  I walked into the kitchen to start the coffee but I was fumbling a little since I was still tired.

I made his espresso first to be nice, which I don’t usually do, and as I went to start mine I forgot to let out all the steam before I started mine and espresso flew all over the kitchen as I released the handle.  I screamed I was so shocked and then was instantly bummed I had created such a mess.  I so wasn’t in the mood to start cleaning up first thing in the morning.  He knew I was bummed and said “Honey, I’ll clean it up for you.”

me:  “No, I’ll do it, it’s fine.”

Lou:  “Let’s both do it.”

As we were cleaning Trinity stomped into the kitchen and wanted to know why I had screamed, which woke her up.  I explained what had happened and she walked outside to sit with Lou on the patio.  On her way outside  she stepped on a piece of glass which is pretty common in our house because Tiara seems to break a glass at least several times a week.  Trinity started screaming and freaking out.  She hobbled into the kitchen and started yelling at me to get her a bowl of warm water.  This is how I get glass, slivers, stingers or anything that is stuck in your skin, out.

me:  “Let me look at it.  Maybe it is just sticking out of the surface and I can grab it.”

Trinity:  NO, NO, GET AWAY FROM ME, DON’T TOUCH ME!!!!

At this point I still haven’t had my coffee and I am shocked by her completely irrational crazy response.  I just got the bowl and put it down on the ground in front of her.  A few minutes later she is still complaining and once again I offer to look at it.  This time she agrees and as I start to approach her she acts like I am coming at her with an an ax, not my bare hands.  She starts yelling and screaming before I can even look at her foot.   I decided at this point I just couldn’t deal with her crazy behavior because she was acting so bad I wanted to hit her or literally shake her until she calmed down.  Instead I SCREAMED this.

me:  “OK, FINE I WON’T HELP YOU!   You can walk around with glass in your foot all day.  I hope it hurts!”

Good Mothering at it’s finest.  She then stumbled off to find Lou and complain to him about how horrible I was being to her.  Once she recalled the story he told her she was in the wrong and needed to apologize to me.  THANK GOODNESS he took my side.

She gave me an half hearted apology and then asked me to get the glass out again.  I waited for a real apology, then got the tweezers and pulled out the glass in less than a second.  It was literally sticking half way out of her skin.

And so I finally finished making my coffee by 7:30 am and Lou left for work.  I assumed he would be home early tonight since he got home at 10:45 last night but no, he informed me he was working open to close.  Here’s to the beginning of another long day.

 

xoxo tiffani

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