Lorihadams-- hi guys...been busy!

[lorihadams]

Well the kids were gone Saturday night and I did something I haven't done in a long time...a puzzle! I worked for 6 hours on it and finally got it finished. It was nice to do something totally different and focus all my energy on something other than my kids!

Sunday I got a spurt of energy and decided to unclutter the house and rearrange the attic so I could put some stuff up there for a future yard sale. Bout killed myself getting stuff up there...had to take a couple of ibuprofen before going to bed. The sad thing is that after I cleaned out the toy box I had enough new stuff from xmas to fill it back up again!

Today I have been laying around playing with the kids...went to feed the chickens the leftovers from a roasted chicken and Maddie must have slipped and let Maggie (our chocolate lab) out and I didn't see her until she had eaten the whole thing.....I just hope it doesn't make her sick. No dog food for her tonight, she's done!

The weather has turned clear but cold here...had some heavy rain Saturday night. I have to get Chad up on the roof to clean out a section of our gutters...they look like they are so stopped up that they are overflowing and pulling away from the house.

Chad had 4 people booked for a hunt today...one of his partners took them so he could go to work. Has another hunt booked for Friday, Saturday, and next Tuesday! I'm glad everything is going well for the business but he is having issues with some of the guys he works with waiting until the last minute to take care of things. He hates it when people procrastinate. It seems like he is always the one that gets stuck picking up the slack.

Did some laundry last night so he would have some jeans to wear to work...with him being gone for over a week he was down to his raggedy pairs and those he wears for around the house stuff when he knows he gonna get grungy. I hated it cause I had to use the dryer, especially when I saw how nice the weather was this morning. Oh well, not the end of the world!

 

[punkin]

I used to work puzzles all the time. I have several glued together and hanging in my closet. Sometimes it's good to focus on something just for the heck of it. Glad you got some alone time.

I'm guessing you have the pull down attic door. So do I. It is a pain (literally) getting stuff up and down. But, the money from the yard sale is a good incentive.

Lori, sorry your DD is giving you such a hard time. I wish I had some "cure it all" advice for you. My DS threw one tantrum in a store. I just walked away from him. He never did it again. I was probably just lucky.

 

[MorelCabin]

Saturday

This past week has been exhausting and I called Chad in tears this morning and told him that I needed him to come home and take the kids to my moms for the rest of the weekend. I just need some time away from Maddie. This past week she has been going through some terrible raging temper tantrums like I have never seen before. She keeps running at me trying to hit me and scratch and pinch me any time I tell her no for anything. Something as simple as her asking for a piece of candy and me telling her no because it's almost time for lunch turns into an hour long tyrade. She keeps trying to take her diaper off and get into the tub...I associate that with the diarrhea and tummy pain. She throws things, my granny tried to hold her during one this week and she is black and blue and Maddie broke her glasses. I don't know what to do. I told Chad to get the pack and play from my mom's house and I will try putting her in there for her time outs. She's only 21 months old. Strong as an ox too. I don't know what to do with her. She was up all night bacause she wanted out of her crib and wanted me to rock her all night. I would get her to sleep and put her in the bed and she would start screaming at the top of her lungs. After 3 hours of fighting her and trying to get Tyler back in his bed, I woke Chad up (he was the only one in the house asleep) and told him that I needed him to do something. She finally went to sleep at like 12:30- 1am. Then she was up again at 5 screaming for me to rock her again.


Anyone got any advice? At this point, I'm desperate...I'll try anything to get her to stop.

Was she always a difficult baby or has this come up along with her getting sick?

 

[FarmerChick]

hey lori my few puzzles are all 24 pieces....lol....yup Nicoles barbie puzzle, little einstein puzzle...LOL-LOL---takes me less than a minute..HA HA

glad you had time to relax a bit. Sounds like you got your hands full with kids and work.

some days right?
UGH

 

[lorihadams]

Hey Morel, no she has always been pretty easy, just opinionated and stubborn. The tantrums started when she got sick. I know that she wasn't feeling good but she is better now and they are still happening. They have gotten better since Chad got home but she is still throwing them with me.

We fight a lot over candy...I usually don't have it in the house but EVERYONE got them candy for xmas and she is pulling the kitchen chairs up to the counter and climbing up into the cabinets to get at it. She wakes up asking for it. She is just really short tempered nowadays.

The portacrib is working well for time outs, only problem is that my son now wants to sleep in it! Killing me...he's so funny. I told him to go put on his underwear last night and he came down the hall completely naked except for his dress socks pulled up to his knees! I told him to put on his underwear and he told me that he had to be naked to dance! Don't you just love the logic of 3 yr olds?

 

[PamsPride]

I am so jealous that you have an attic to store stuff in!!!! I have no attic or basement!! We have no extra room to store anything! My mom said she would have a garage sale for me but I had to store everything.....No room!!

 

[MorelCabin]

Hey Morel, no she has always been pretty easy, just opinionated and stubborn. The tantrums started when she got sick. I know that she wasn't feeling good but she is better now and they are still happening. They have gotten better since Chad got home but she is still throwing them with me.

We fight a lot over candy...I usually don't have it in the house but EVERYONE got them candy for xmas and she is pulling the kitchen chairs up to the counter and climbing up into the cabinets to get at it. She wakes up asking for it. She is just really short tempered nowadays.

The portacrib is working well for time outs, only problem is that my son now wants to sleep in it! Killing me...he's so funny. I told him to go put on his underwear last night and he came down the hall completely naked except for his dress socks pulled up to his knees! I told him to put on his underwear and he told me that he had to be naked to dance! Don't you just love the logic of 3 yr olds?

Sometimes they take a while after getting sick to get back to themselves, but if it continues I would mention it to your doctor...and maybe get a strep test done.

 

[2dream]

Lori, so sorry you are having to deal with the temper tantrums.

My son (now 33) was the temper tantrum king and it had nothing to do with feeling bad. It took me a long time to break him of the tantrums. I tried it all and I can't tell you exactly what worked because everyone else would think I was awful. But considering the situation at the time, and the amount of time I spent trying a million things. My final straw worked and to me that is all that counted for me. I dealt with his tantrums for almost a full year before the final push.
Honestly at 21 months you may have a easier time of it since it is all new. Time outs in the play pen with totally ignoring her may work. Take the candy and let her watch you throw it in the trash. If its not there she won't want it. If you want to retrieve it when she is not looking you can. Or keep 10 pieces of candy in a bag just for her. Only let her have it for extreme good behavior.
There could be a million things that could work or just one. I am sure that once you are refreshed you will be able to deal with her.
We just need that refreshing/no children day occasionally.

Keep us posted -

 

[keljonma]

I am so jealous that you have an attic to store stuff in!!!! I have no attic or basement!! We have no extra room to store anything! My mom said she would have a garage sale for me but I had to store everything.....No room!!

Do you have a stairwell? My pantry is under a set of stairs to the 2nd floor. That might give you some storage space.

 

[keljonma]

The sad thing is that after I cleaned out the toy box I had enough new stuff from xmas to fill it back up again!

I remember this so well from when our two were growing up! We used to split everything between home and the two grandmas house. [As an example, we didn't need 4 Barbies, so 2 stayed home. We would swap out the toys occasionally between locations so they wouldn't get 'bored' with the same old toys.]