I wish I had some fun words of funness to share with you today, but I don’t. All my mental energy has been spent dealing with my toddler, which is roughly equivalent to high-stakes terrorist negotiations. If you have a toddler, or have ever met a toddler, you know. They will relentlessly dictate every aspect of your life, from eating to sleeping, to using the bathroom, to merely walking from room to room. Let me give you a rundown of our last five minutes:
He is happily playing with his toys, so I sneak away for a quick minute and get on the computer.
He immediately senses something productive attempting to happen.
He dramatically bangs open the office door and announces “HELLO! I POOPY!”
I pretend I don’t see him. He bangs both fists on my keyboard. He throws the computer mouse across the room.
I say, “Go play!” He pulls the paper out of the printer and stuffs it back in.
“Just give me one minute!” I plead. He empties my desk drawers and screams so loudly my vision blurs.
“I’m going to write all about you and put it on the internet,” I threaten. He sweetly holds up a toy giraffe, “Horse?” he says. Awww. He’s adorable.
“Let’s go change that diaper,” I say and pick him up. He immediately begins thrashing wildly about while clawing at my face and yanking my hair as if he has never met me before and I’m attempting to kidnap him. I’m 90% sure he just pulled off one of my moles.
I collapse on the floor, defeated. He happily resumes playing with his toys, on my face.
Anyway. I’m tired.
In other news, here’s a gorgeous kitchen makeover from Nina. Perhaps I too will have a beautiful and sparkling kitchen one day, when my toddler has outgrown his ‘forcefully-spit-everything-you-put-into-my-mouth-out’ stage and I return to feeling like a fully-functioning human again.
Would you believe that most everything you see here was a DIY? Check out Nina’s blog Everyday Enchanting to get a closer look.
And don’t forget, today is the LAST DAY to purchase the Ultimate Homemaking Bundle! Don’t wait, it really is such a great deal.
13 Comments
Jenn
November 3, 2015 at 3:20 PMLove the kitchen, but mostly wanted to say – hang in there Momma! Everything you do, all the time and love you invest in your boy has forever payoff. From someone a little farther down the road…..every moment – even the crazy ones – are all worth it.
Dawn
November 3, 2015 at 4:07 PMI’m guessing today isn’t the day to tell you to enjoy every minute, that they grow up too fast?:)
Sarah @ I Speak Canadian
November 3, 2015 at 5:52 PMAhhhh amazing! What a great island!
Sarah @ I Speak Canadian
November 3, 2015 at 5:53 PMHahaha, also I have a toddler as well. He doesn’t talk just yet but I understand all of this. All of it.
Emily
November 3, 2015 at 6:50 PMOh boy oh boy can I relate! My sweet little girl has become a full blown dictator banshee! She actually throws herself in the floor and thrashes when she can’t watch *another* My Little Pony, or have *two* cookies instead of *just* one. And when I calmly tell her she needs to be quiet, she screams in my face “I ALL DONE CRYING NOOOOWW!” *sigh* we’ll survive, somehow.
staci
November 3, 2015 at 9:00 PMThat was so stinkin funny!
(I have twin high school boys….boy can I remember those torturous years of toddlerhood!)
Victoria
November 4, 2015 at 6:01 AMI have 3 boys, all in their 20’s now, but boy do I remember those days LOL. Good times!!! Lovely kitchen!
Michelle L
November 4, 2015 at 9:00 AMI am only an aunt, and just a few hours with my toddler nephews sends me to bed – girl, right now you have the hardest job on the planet. I laughed really hard about the mole.
Molly
November 4, 2015 at 11:11 AMI laughed so hard at your stories! Have some temperamental toddlers here too – one’s 4, so you would think he’d be growing out of it, and it does happen far less often, but when he decides to go for it, it doesn’t end for what seems like hours. Yesterday it was in the grocery store, because I wouldn’t let him push the cart. I did let him push the cart at first, but after having to repeatedly grab it back when he was about to run it into someone/something, I decided to take over, which resulted in like 3 separate crying, screaming meltdowns during the span of the trip. Add to that a busy 16 month old who throws himself on the floor crying every time he has to do something he doesn’t want to… I can’t believe I used to think I had calm, well behaved kids! What happened?!?
Lindsey @ Better After
November 4, 2015 at 10:53 PMHa ha! All I can do is laugh/cry in solidarity. Although I did just discovered that our local Walmart has grocery pick up service and I used it for the first time today, game changer!!! You should definitely see if your Walmart does the same thing.
CrazyAmy
November 4, 2015 at 11:15 PMI’ve been thinking “I can’t start a blog when I already own a one-year-old terrorist.” Now I feel like a loser. Beautiful job on the kitchen though!
Lindsey @ Better After
November 5, 2015 at 12:02 AMHaha, please don’t feel that way! I feel like a loser blogger! I can barely hold it together, I don’t think I’ve answered an email in two months!
Heather M
November 5, 2015 at 1:20 PMStory. Of. My. Life. And I mean the insane toddler, not the immaculate kitchen. Mine is in the bossiest of stages where he gives me two word commands all the day…”mommy, sit down,” “mommy, shut it,” “mommy, read it.” And on and on and on! I never thought I’d find myself hiding from a one year old!!
On a different note, this is really beautiful!