I'm back again!

Ok, this time I promise I'm really back to blogging every day or so.

I've had a pretty hectic last week. My three year old had her ear tube surgery. Then I spent the rest of the week looking after her, and running holiday errands - until my youngest daughter also got sick, that is!

I feel like my brain is slowly but surely reconnecting with the rest of my body again.

I'll have lots of thinking to do over the next few days. I fell back to my old ways on a few challenges, the main one being yelling. Boy, oh boy, I had a few moments from hell on that front in the past week.

I also need to think about my kids and their activities. My three year old especially. She had "show the parents" class at gymnastics this weekend... and I was so upset and embarassed and angry and.... well, I was so busy being those things I found it really hard to be proud of her, even though the few times she did what she was supposed to, she was really great. But then she'd wander off and no instructors would fetch her. She'd jump the cue so she could skip the floor exercises but do trampoline twice. She'd wanter into the trampoline areas when it wasn't her group's turn and no one would catch her... I didn't know who to be more frustrated with: her, for not listening, or the instructors for not providing more structure and discipline to the course.

I'm torn as to what we'll do after the holidays - continue gym, but at a new club, or give up altogether. I'm hesitant to have her give up if she has the talent for it, and I hope that if we do take a break, she'll be ok to pick it up again in a few months or a year. And because of everything that happened Saturday, her getting her very first certificate kind of got buried in the fact that hubby and I were so dismayed by how disobedient she was in the class.

On the bright side, my two year old also had show the parents class at dance, and she was incredible. She followed through and did the whole class on her own (even though it's technically mom and tots) and convinced me she's really doing the right activity.

Anyway, all that is behind us. The kids are back at daycare and, after the snowfall from hell yesterday we're back to normal by this evening. Apologies to everyone, and I'll be back with a better, challenge-specific update tomorrow!