My babies are home! I am very happy about this but there has been a lot of adjusting going on. Two months is a long time to be apart from each other and with my children being so young I have to expect changes, some good, some not so much. Ella is now fully potty trained (well, she wears a night diaper but hell yeah!) and that is the biggest positive change that occurred, and maybe the only one. It's just hard to get them back to the place we were at, back to our routine. Poor Aydan had a complete breakdown at daycare because he wanted to spend the day with me. I would love to be able to just say okay and have a day together, but that isn't available to a single working mother. I know that I'm not doing anything wrong and neither are they - we are all just feeling our way back together. Does knowing that make anything easier - NOPE! but it does help keep me calm and patient. Aydan seems to be even more addicted to video games, and I don't discourage his love of them. Ella has grown into a little diva, cute but also a little too lippy. It's only been 12 days -we will get this all worked out soon enough. We just need to get back to the basics. I started a "listening star calender" -the way it works... each day that they do a good job listening, that means I don't have to ask more than twice (I know it should be once but they are 4 & 3) and that they do what I ask without any lip then they earn a star. After a month of stars or 30 days then they get to pick out a toy. They like it and so do I. They are learning to listen and that good behavior is rewarded and that they have to earn things for themselves, not everything is going to be handed to them. I'll give you an update in 28 days. So, tonight I am thinking of getting unplugged and trying to have fun - just the three of us. Dance party, ice cream and maybe some finger painting. Should be a good time.
