What a constipated day..

Ugh. It was just one of those days. Maybe it was the weather. It was dark and rained allll day. I don't seem to ever remember feeling amazing or productive on a day when the weather has been depressing. I should start paying attention to the forecasts so I can forecast my own emotional state. I did, however, un-constipate my daughter with my bare hand and some petroleum jelly, so that was interesting. I feel like that should be a question to have to answer on eHarmony: are you willing to un-constipate someone you love with your bare hands? If you think about it, it is quite a display of how much you love someone and of who you are. It is selfless and you find yourself doing it purely to relive the recipient of the pain they are in, which means you have empathy. You gain nothing from it except a shitty hand and the satisfaction of helping your loved one. If you would rather see someone in pain than lend a helping hand, your not the one for me.

Someone who isn't constipated today is my toddler son, who should be 150% potty trained by now, but he likes to take a nice fat crap in his pants for me when he gets home from preschool. It always tends to happen after dinner when I am busy cleaning up and forget to ask him 2 seconds if he has to go. He becomes very preoccupied doing something that usually has me yelling from the kitchen "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! ARE YOU BEING NICE?!" and when I go to see wtf he is doing, it smells like failure in whatever room he was in. Pure failure. Doesn't he know I can't leave him in the play area and go waste an hour at IKEA if he isn't potty trained?! He needs to get his head on straight if he wants his toys and clothes organized in cheap bins on cheap shelves in cheap furniture.

I think the bottom line is that raising three kids (and a dog) alone is hard. And some days (like today) really suck and make me feel almost like a "Im doomed" feeling. But all days are not created equal, and what I would be missing of their little lives if I was off doing anything else wouldn't be worth it anyways. Mama just needs a hot shower and a cold cocktail, which is the exact cure for a shitty constipated day.