On Friday we had friends over and one of my crew was making a point to be difficult. Since this was our first get together in months I gave wayyyyy to much wiggle room and too many warnings. Then Saturday morning she woke up a hellion.
Hell broke loose when she was asking me to fix a cat toy (the kind with the mouse on the string, mouse had popped off) and I did what I always do, first come first serve, unless you are dying. I dealt with request one from sister, had moved to request two from other sister. Meanwhile she is following me every step, "Mamamamamamamama." Suddenly, I get a stinging pain in my back. I have just been whipped. My inner Ms. Hannigan erupted, "Get in your room NOW!" In a voice that didn't sound like it came from me and at a volume that shocked me. Needless to say she high tailed it to her room and didn't say another word.
She stayed in there a LONG time and didn't say anything (very unusual). I waited till Chris got back home and let him get her out of her room. She behaved the rest of the day. Yesterday, she thought about acting up as we left my grandmother's. I shot her 'the look' and she straightened up. I wish I'd stuck to my guns on Friday, even if she would have missed out on the fun. It wasn't worth the difficulties this weekend.
I don't like exploding or my knee jerk reactions to pain. Perhaps she would have been that way Saturday no matter what. I'm usually good about follow through and after this I will no longer allow wiggle room on special occasions.
On a similar note, I came across the Orange Rhino on pinterest
Very interesting, this lady in in the last few days of her 1 year challenge not to yell at her kids. She does silly things when she feels the urge to yell. Very cool idea.. not sure I'm ready for that yet, setting yourself up for failure and all that, but I felt it was worth a share.
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