Tame the Shrew!

Yesterday was a crazy busy day as usual, with back to back appointments.  So I was waiting until my hubby came home so we could pick up the car, once again at the shop, and I would go over to my mom’s for a workout.  I really need to get those workouts completed in the am and I am working on it, I really am.  It is not fair to my daughter or hubby if I leave them hanging around dinner time even once a week.  But, yesterday I did not have a choice.

As we are racing to get Tori back in the car, I remind Jeff that she needs to eat when he gets her home.  Or at least I think I did.  I probably said something like, “Oh crap, I forgot to make a bottle for her next feeding, which is at 5pm.”  The last 20 minutes of my workout I get a call from Jeff, asking when our baby is suppose to eat next.  Hum, it is just past 6pm and he is now calling me with a very cranky baby in the background???  Really!!!  The shrew in me started to get irritated and feathers were ruffled for sure!!

I race home, open the door from the garage and see a gigantic new pee stain on our sisal rug in the kitchen.  “Oh my gosh Rudy!!  Jeff Rudy just peed on the rug again!!!” (Rudy is our 11 year old Maltese.)  Jeff is in the next room changing a pooping diaper and has the audacity to tell me that it was there when he arrived home.  I flew into a rage that would shame Joan Crawford herself.  I knew as I was screaming, how I sounded, but I didn’t care.  I leave my house and post for 1 hour and it all goes to shit.  I take time out for me and I come home to a huge piss stain and… a happy smiley baby???  Wait, what???  Tori was fed an hour later.  Big freaking deal!  She survived and was so happy to see me and was happily playing peakaboo with her daddy.  

Now to get the record straight, Jeff ALWAYS cleans up Rudy’s pee, except this one time.  I wish he would have just lied and said it happened while he was feeding Tori, but he didn’t.  Lesson learned?  I can take time for myself because I have a willing and sweet husband who loves spending time with our daughter.  My house will NEVER be as clean as it was it in the past, before Tori came into our lives.  And that is ok because I would never want to go back to they way it was.  My life is so much sweeter and richer now and I will remind myself of that every single day.  Next time, I will try and tame that shrew with the first signs that things aren’t going how I want them to.  It is so not worth the energy.