This afternoon and evening have not been the most joyful.<\/p>\n
I do love my family and have a lot to be thankful for, but, ugh, today still held more frustrations than I would have preferred.<\/p>\n
Since I know that there are a lot of MomsToolbox and Bible in 90 Days readers out there who have a lot more wisdom in the “mothering small children” chapter, I’d love tap into some of that wisdom.<\/p>\n
My children are 5, 8 and almost 9. They are typically well-behaved and, to be honest, I’ve got a pretty good gig going on in my life with an awesome husband and a comfortable lifestyle.<\/p>\n
But today I just want to take a break.<\/p>\n
We went to the pool to try to make the most of the last days of summer and THAT didn’t even work. The kids were cranky. I was cranky. And I came home absolutely unmotivated to make dinner. So I retreated to my room with a magazine and closed the door. I left some pistachios on the table and told the kids to go for it as long as they cleaned up after themselves.<\/p>\n
After awhile I realized dinner had to come (And I had planned to make a meal everyone likes) so I came out, made dinner and smiled.<\/p>\n
I’m still feeling kind of blah and I don’t want to feel this way.<\/p>\n
I want to be kind and loving and forgiving. I know my attitude sets the tone and I don’t want to be a grump… but sometimes, to be honest, I just feel grumpy.<\/p>\n
Anyone have any tips?<\/strong><\/p>\n For those in this chapter right now: <\/em><\/strong>How do you get yourself out of a grump slump?<\/em><\/p>\n And for those who have been here:<\/em><\/strong> Please share some wisdom!!<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks, y’all, for letting me be real. And thanks for your tips to come. I think I need to go make some chocolate chip cookies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This afternoon and evening have not been the most joyful. I do love my family and have a lot to be thankful for, but, ugh, today still held more frustrations than I would have preferred. Since I know that there are a lot of MomsToolbox and Bible in 90 Days readers out there who have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moms-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}