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Sunday
Aug132017

Oof with the 'Tude

If you're going to do back-to-back "vacations" (quotes because Vegas for a cheer competition is not really a vacation, in my book), may I suggest not doing it the way I did? Because OOOOOF. 

So. Mila. Mila knows how to push my buttons like no other person who has not yet mastered the art of wiping her own behind. The girl talks back more in one week than Alexis has in her entire life. And when I say "talks back" I mean it. If I tell Mila to put her shoes on, there's a really good chance that her reply will be, "No, YOU put your shoes on." Sit down, eat your dinner, stop jumping, please don't do something that would cause you to die ... it's all worth arguing about in her mind.

It's exhausting.

And I don't know how to make it stop. She's barely three years old, so she doesn't understand the weight of her words just yet. 

Anyway, an entire week of Mila talking back is exactly enough to make me want to run in circles screaming. Or go find a high cliff. Something. Anything. It's as if I need a vacation from my vacation.

WHICH I COULD HAVE HAD IF I HAD FLIPPED THINGS.

For as much of a challenge as Mila is these days, Alexis is a stroll down Easy Street. They're kind enough to take turns with their difficult stages, so I know it won't stay, but right now Alexis is fantastic and amazing. Give it a few weeks and she'll be hard, no worries, but right now? Man. Right now she's swell. A weekend in Vegas with her wasn't much different than a weekend with a friend. There's a pretty clear understanding that I"m mom and definitely running the show, but still. Think Lorelei and Rory. We're there right now.

(Again. It won't last. And tween talking back is infinitely more frustrating that preschooler talking back soooooooo.)

Basically, I should have done the vacation that was a lot of work and hard and all of that first and the easy one second. But noooope. I did things backwards.

::sigh::

So we all return to reality tomorrow and the memories of vacations will start to fade. The good news is that photos don't make noise, so I'll look at the photos of Mila at the beach and remember how much she loved playing in the sand, how she didn't want anything to do with the water, how much she giggled every time the big kids so much as glanced at her, and her general glee about absolutely everything.

I'll definitely forget all of  the attitude.

Maybe.

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Reader Comments (1)

I'm there with my four year old for the past month now. Not every single thing I say every day, but enough. We just had a vacation the first week of June and I have been wanting one alone for a week for at least a month already.

August 14, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRobin
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