 I have been wanting to sit down and blog about my recent family trip to Alberta. Life has been hectic and a bit stressful since getting back from the trip. We might be moving into a bigger 3 bedroom place. We have been seriously looking for a new place and have an appointment later today with a beautiful one. Things are going to get crazy if we do move. Lots to do and many new changes to adjust to. It's all a lot to think about. There has been many changes in my life lately.
I got some news that my mom is moving closer to me next month!! A little too close for comfort. She's going to be a few blocks away! I think she thinks this will make us closer. This is way too much though. I need my space from my mom. I have my in-laws living very close to us too. It just doesn't feel like we have our own lives sometimes. I was not too happy to hear this news. My mom and I have a complicated relationship. She has so much of her own drama happening right now and I can't deal it. It's just all too much.
We are also having a bit of trouble with our teen daughter. She's a bit out of control right now. There is a bad boy who's come into her life and influenced her into making some bad decisions. Her drama came into my date night with Master Anakin. We were trying to have a romantic dinner at Mr. Mike's and the texts came coming in and interrupted our dinner.
A big fight resulted and really ruined the mood for a while. We did eventually play and have a naughty mood later in the night. I was able to get a spanking and we had a few hours together. But the drama continued into the weekend and got worse last night. Having a teen can be so challenging sometimes.
My mom likes to tell me it's "payback" for my daughter driving me crazy. I guess I must have driven her crazy too. lol. :) I brought home plenty of bad boys in my younger days too. Maybe it's in the genes. I fell for geeks and nerds normally but there were a few bad boys thrown into the mix. My Dad used to do criminal record checks on the boys I dated.
Needless to say those bad boys never stuck around long with my Dad keeping his eye on things. He scared a few of them away. He found out that one of my boyfriends was an ex con. I had no idea! He was one of the scariest of all the boys I dated. I really worry about this bad boy that my daughter seems so obsessed with. At least he's moving away in August. He is bad news! I am really worried about my daughter getting hurt. This situation stresses me out a lot and has caused some anxiety and panic attacks.
I still hope to blog about our trip. I have plenty of pictures and stories to tell. I also was able to cross 10 things off my bucket list! It's just taking some time to come back to reality again and so much stress happening. I don't get much time to myself right now. And I imagine it will get worse if we are moving. I can't wait til the kids are back in school again. I miss my days of masturbating with my Hitachi! At least that helped with stress relief. September can't come soon enough!
I am putting up a picture of a t-shirt we saw in Banff! It has a Star Wars theme and says "May the forest be with you". It's a cute one and we had a laugh about it. Such a neat shirt!
May the forest be with all of you! :)
~padme amidala
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3 comments:
Move or not, I'm sure you'll be glad when September comes around. Summer's hard on parents, especially teen summers I think. Hopefully I just scared this boy away.
Loved the vacation, My heart's still there, with you.
May the forest be with you, too.
~Anakin
Sorry to hear your having issues with your daughter. That would be scary having a guy like that in your child's life. I don't know if this will help, but my mom always took the direct approach. She knew that we would do what we were going to do regardless of what she said, so she'd sit us down and basically tell us that she wasn't going to tell us what to do, but she felt obligated to tell us what she saw in the situation whether we wanted to believe her or not. So she'd tell us bluntly what she saw happening or what she felt the problem was and just walked away... leaving us with a decision to make.
I can remember being pissed about her doing this, but at the same time it always made me think. I couldn't feel rebellious in these situations because she essentially washed her hands of it and left me with the decision. So I was left with no choice but to consider what she was saying, even if I only did it subconsciously. Even when I made the wrong choice, I became hyperaware of the situation... I'd start noticing little things I didn't see before. And more often than not, I'd end up reversing my decision.
My mom knew, though, that if she tried to pressure us into taking her point of view, we'd just put up walls and ignore her. Sometimes the best thing to do is speak your mind and then walk away as hard as it is to do (and my mom said it was really hard for her to do that too). And then you have to trust that eventually they will make the right choice and learn from their mistakes.
*hugs*
turiya
Thanks for your comment, turiya. :) Good to hear from you. How's your summer going? It's a hard job being a mom. Thank you for your comment.
Hugs,
padme
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