While there are large things in life that cause stress, like selling your mother’s condo whilst trying to maintain your own home, keep your family reasonably comfortable and happy and hanging on to your sanity (yes, I’m making this about you, because if I don’t I may realize what seventh circle of purgatory I’ve landed myself in), sometimes it’s the little things which finally make you snap.
Like when you take your kid for a haircut and the barber grazes the back of his neck with the trimmer and oh my Lord it’s the end of the world. He gets home, strips off his shirt and wraps himself in a fleece blanket that he refuses to take off even when he goes to bed that night, waking himself up at 2:47 (and you with him) because he’s so tangled up in coverings and the next day you find yourself applying Polysporin to a pink-tinged area that (point to it again? I can’t find it.) is so minute but he still refuses to wear a shirt over.
And then! And then! later when he’s almost forgotten about the agony he’s in over his haircut and he’s helping your mother wash the dishes (he’s washing, she’s drying) and he’s all done and putting the Tupperware bucket upside down on top of the clean dishes in the dish rack and your mother is taking it off to get to the dishes that HAVE to be dried and your kid is putting it back on and she’s taking it off (because by this time your mother’s OCD is battling to the death with your kid’s OCD) and he’s putting it back on and screaming and she’s taking it off and yelling at him in a language he can’t even hear (because he’s Deaf) let alone understand and all you want to do is run away from home…
…because it’s the little things that finally do you in…
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January 27, 2015 at 12:48 pm
And these are the moments that in any number of years from now that you will laugh about…hopefully.
Yeah, been there. You will survive it!
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January 28, 2015 at 2:47 pm
I laugh now – if I didn’t I’d end up in the looney bin. 😛 hehe
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January 28, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Aye!
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January 27, 2015 at 11:33 am
Sigh! Hoping today is better.
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January 28, 2015 at 2:48 pm
Thanks, Joanne. 🙂
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January 26, 2015 at 8:19 pm
When two OCD’s go at it in the kithchen toss water and flour on them and they will be so busy trying to get it all off they will forget to fight with each other. Not that I’ve EVER done that butttttt….
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January 26, 2015 at 10:48 pm
Buttttt it’s worth a try! Hahaha! Thanks for the suggestion. 😀
*goes to buy flour*
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January 26, 2015 at 7:18 pm
Oh Honey, just add wine. *hugs*
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January 26, 2015 at 10:47 pm
As I said to a friend on facebook who read this post, it’s why I buy wine by the case. 😉 Thanks, Joey. 🙂
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January 26, 2015 at 6:26 pm
**HUGS**
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January 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm
Thank you, Paul. 🙂
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January 26, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Linda, I think I told you many times all my admiration. I am telling you again to-day. What happened reminded me when Jean and I took Chris and Fred one day for an haircut when we were babysitting them. Chris was about 3 years old… Yes, it was quite an adventure… Love you Linda.
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January 26, 2015 at 4:46 pm
Haha! I remember that. Chris just loved his haircuts, didn’t he? 😛 It was both wonderful and brave of you to take him! Thank you! 😀
Love you too, Lucie. Tell Jean I said hi!
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January 26, 2015 at 3:56 pm
Poor girl….hang in there….you’re going to get through this and still have a mind left….I promise!
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January 26, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Thanks for the encouragement! 🙂
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January 26, 2015 at 2:02 pm
Sending you a virtual hug madam…
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January 26, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Thank you. 🙂
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January 26, 2015 at 2:02 pm
Sounds to me not such little things. Well some kids have sensory stuff going on. And it sounds like you do have a lot on your plate. So don’t beat yourself up.
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January 26, 2015 at 2:04 pm
At this rate I’m ready to break all the plates – paper ones are harder to fight over. Ha!
The little things do have a tendency to add up though.
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January 26, 2015 at 2:11 pm
In my life I have been the kind of person who goes along, apparently calmly, through one stress and another until there is that straw. And all of a sudden I would completely lose it. Then I would get frustrated with myself and think why can’t I just let off steam a little at a time. But we are human.
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January 26, 2015 at 2:16 pm
Yep, I’m pretty much the same. I have the occasional irritable day, but for the most part I’m patient until I’m just not patient anymore. Then I surprise the hell out of everyone. 😛
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January 26, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Oh! Linda I wish I could hug you. ❤
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January 26, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Willow. 🙂 As long as I can remember to laugh (and not maniacally) I think I’ll survive. 😉 hehe
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January 26, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Arrrrrrh ha ha Arrrrrrrrh!
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January 26, 2015 at 2:35 pm
Hahaha! You’re so funny. 😀
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January 26, 2015 at 3:57 pm
😉
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