Have you ever had a day at your job which made you feel like you just couldn’t do anything right. This is the type of day I have had today at my job, which just so happens to be that of a stay at home mother. If I had a supervisor, and if this was the day she based her revaluation of me on, I am not sure that I wouldn’t be fired on the spot or at the very least be warned that I better clean up my act ASAP.

Today, I was out and about most of the day with my four children. During our excursions at least ten times I just stared at them in disbelief, as if some alien had come down right in front of me and switch my semi well-mannered children and replaced them with complete banshees. I couldn’t stop thinking or telling them that their behaviour was embarrassing me, but the four of them just kept on feeding off each other and in the process driving me crazy.

In this craziness, I seemed to have lost all of the last ten years of parenting experience I have inquired because in response to their antics, I just looked at them blankly not knowing what to do or who to give the “don’t embarrass me in public” evil eye to first. All four of them each took their turn in the hot seat but it didn’t seem to matter what type of discipline I had doled out, nothing seem to penetrate and to have an effect. I hope that today was just an isolated moment in time because if this is the beginning of a stage, I am in big trouble and so is my confidence as a mother.

I wish I had a happier ending to such a day or even some advice on how to survive your own type of miserable day, but I regretfully don’t. I am just so happy it is over. Maybe at the very least, when you have your own bad day in whatever job that you hold, you won’t feel so alone in your misery.

Namaste