The Wrong Time...

to read parenting blogs focused on patience and listening and surrounding your child with love is when said child has kept you up since 4am and has been screaming for the last hour and you are at your wits end and have just gotten said child's other parent to take over so you can take a break.

It is one of those days. Yup.

The rest has followed as you might imagine. Out of sorts LP. Out of sorts improvamama. A couple of errands that could not be put off one more day...all kinds of fun.

One bright spot (in addition to the nap that is currently happening) is LP climbing up on the bed with two small soft dolls and saying "I'm juggling" as she drops them and laughs. Again and again.

I wonder why in this moment she remembered me trying (for the 100th time) to teach myself to juggle a few weeks ago. She found it funny then (although I wasn't dropping the juggling cows intentionally...it is just my learning curve). I had been thinking that it is a good thing for kids to see their big people learning things (all sorts of good role modeling, etc) and found learning juggling something that I wouldn't get bent our of shape about (esp since I've been sporadically trying to learn for going on 7 years).

So we played "juggling"...I have to say, her way is easier to learn and much funnier than mine.

And really juggling is what today is all about ...juggling our tired, cranky selves in relationship.