Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
DS and I had come home from football practice and everyone was hungry and on edge. The kids started bickering just to bicker and I had just shut that down. Then Mom starts in on DS and how he is bad etc. I told her to leave the kids alone and stop poking them - she tries to instigate.
Well, I was rushing to put dinner on the table and was at the stove with my back turned and I herd Mom tell DS "its bubble gum". I instinctively knew she was talking about the nickel sized piece of chicken I had given her and saying it was chewy. That's when I lost it.
I am so tired of going out of my way to cook delicious, nutritious meals only to have her criticize. I have tried to make at least one thing that she likes but screw it. I don't care anymore.
She is ungrateful and selfish and I am tired of it.
Assess your snap potential early on by asking yourself:
Are you too hungry?
Are you too angry?
Are you too lonely?
Are you too tired?
The acronym HALT is used as a coping tool in many recovery programs. It is used to remind that at these times, a relapse in recovery is more likely.
My condolences Mom2Mom that you are frequently being pushed beyond your limit. Your kitchen actually sounds fun to me, as you are handing out bubblegum/
chicken pieces, children gathered around in chaos-That could have happened only once to me, and we would be bringing home chicken delight forevermore!
You have a parrot that can curse? My kind of pet!
Btw if dad can't drink alcohol maybe put o'douls in the icebox - just say'n
Now,Morgan, I changed His name upped His rank to captain.one had to listen but under His breat he proved a sailor.We bought him at auction he proved to be a beter bird than first one we bid on. He came withthe in swear warning. dont know why he hd bite warning. He tried spoofing but.Just wanted love.Ran in to lady hand raised him. there. he took sec she said special sound he recognized recognized her. When my husban was dying LCa he was so good with my husband. We were eating cherry cheeze cake. Morga kept asking if good.Told him not For birds. Morgan had to walk over the carpet to ussomething he rarely would do .like almost never. We all sat on trundle bed couch my husband Morgan And tucked in to her trample hole in my husbands pillow, Ruby my Grand Electus, eating Baked New York Triple High Cherry Cheese cake. Morgan licking with His tongue throughly enjoying cheesecake mmmmm...mmmmm.good .Asking For grape leaning red grape called cher
You not only crazy house.ry. Nuther cherry please,....
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Last year when I came to see mum to help after her falls . I was greeted with the b!tch is here she will change everything in my life. Yeah I did but for the better, I changed her bed which now she loves. I got homecare in to vacuum and wash her sheets which she loves. No thank you. Ive decided mothers are worse than kids. One thing I will not do this to my kids. Already throwing out stuff and down sizing. Already listening to my kids advice. Embrace change is my motto. Unfortunately not mums
Every time Mom has a drink in her hand, I snap a picture and post it on Facebook. She doesn't drink all that often but those seem to be the only pictures I post. So, all of Mom's relatives thinks she has done nothing but booze it up since coming to live with me.
On the way to work this morning there was a man crossing the intersection in downtown in a full on Spider-Man outfit - too early for Halloween so he might have been the real Spider-Man - if of course Spider-Man wears a fanny pack in front of his crotch 😜
I don't want to cook or clean up after and going to the grocery store - forget about it
If I can get up the energy to finish the laundry and take a shower maybe I'll go to the local diner - they do have fabulous boysenberry pie 😋
Question is do I go spend the rest of the evening with mom at memory care 🤔
Set it on the floor so it doesn't slide off.
It led me to the freezer for rocky road ice cream
Her perpetual smile, love of playing in water, her loyalty. She would alert to the smell of drugs, so we often had to explain this to the neighbors, that she was a former narcotics dog. Then they left us alone, lol. Got her at 5 years old, she died at almost 15.
We did not know her history-just thought that because of her behaviors. She was so very well-trained when we got her from the animal shelter, I am sure she lost some training living with us. That was our last dog.
I didn't listen
No, I take that back. You were too exhausted to eat pie. Now you won't go to bed.
What are you worried about? It was hot today, did you forget to take a shower again? I suggest you drink some water, take a baby aspirin, private message what's on your mind, then stay up watching reruns of your favorite shows...as long as you can stay awake after your shower. Lol...........
I've been tossing and turning for two hours now - it's hot and I don't want to go to work tomorrow
Maybe I should get up and clean out a cupboard or a closet - nah
Maybe the rocky road was an off-brand or had ice crystals in it. Not getting a good chocolate fix can keep you awake for hours, imo.
70 year old tract home with no a/c and a floor furnace - ha ha ha
Original Windows need to be replaced but the expense will have to be deferred for the next owner -
Reminds me of that Rosemary Clooney song - this old house
Fans work only so much.
a r.iver on S. Sec.
Moms at brothers.
Hey behaving badly .All in. There have bern three different incidents of someonr trying to lead my mother off from my
brothers place front porch. One grabbed her by throat tried pull
her off. My brother witnessed
two attempted abductions.she i going on 90. I had my brother take her for time w his son and untill he cannt or she needs mote care. she had few ischemic episodes and etc been to rehab. Pocesses are slow. He doesnt understand she needs to keep mind active. Made comment hes taking care of her by himself.
Well hes her Robert Taylor.
I took care of all since I was before 12. Come home from school no water or no elec because she didnt pay the bill. She might die before its shut off.
So dad would have check written out. And I made sure it was paid.
Years later find out her neck was fx from car rearended at stop sign. prob had cause ischemic episode but she wouldnt go to DR.
Then later she had other episodes passed .But I just got used giving her 3 things to do a day and if she got one it was ok. I made her folders. Went to realestate school with her. I was too young thad to be 23.
Went To Burton Rogers Course forExam . Tutored her . I got caught sitting outside door taking notes.
He had me Tutor 5 others. Mr. Rogers daid when I 18 he would ask for exception and askedfor me to to come back with her for brokers . Was way She could be front person and I find all leads or get contract on something. Knew My father had been given 5 yr to live. My husband before he died said. The worst thing about dying is not the dying its the waiting. you told you going to die within 6 mo. year later your here still
here. at 47 dad told hed hav 5 yrs. Perefil vasculiar disease.
Figure mom was going to have to support us three so found job she could do I could be behind
scenes.
Worked. But between two of them I was burning out. when I moved on sailboat she would drive to beach at night and sleep in vehicle.
We had Trop Storm Debbie and flooding at sons house off beach.
Sailboat was moored on island one of our old moorings from bardge co we owned previously.
wiring was damaged from power co neutral switch blowing post storm when salt climed pole. just like when you make rock salt on a string.
So didnt like her being there.
She wouldnt come to boat. Even if I put it in harborage with all amenitis she wouldnt go in pool she said she would sleep in chair in clubhouse cafe.
So told brother it was his turn. Figured his son could have some granny time.I cherised fact I had grandparents and them my g fathers brother and wife.
All kids should have opportunity to live w gparents.
Anyway Told brother he had to take her for a while.
He wont let her go anywhere. The less she goes about the more confused she is when arriving someplace. Like her brain has to catch up. like a disassociation of left &right eye.