Moments with my Jekyll and Hyde (that's Anna)

On Wednesday night I ventured out of the house knowing I had two extremely crabby girls. Why on Earth would I do this, you might ask? Well...Hubby works late on Wednesdays, and I badly needed to get groceries for daycare for the rest of the week. The brilliant mother I am, I started keeping dum-dums suckers in my purse for crabby outings like this...but even the dum-dum couldn't handle my two crab apples! Anna dropped her sucker on the ground, so I picked it up and told her to get a new one since this one was dirty. She then threw the sucker pouch onto the ground and gave me a dirty look. So...I pick it, put it back in my purse, and tell her no more suckers because of her behavior. Wow, was that ever a bad idea! For the next 5 minutes I had to shop as quickly as I could, enduring the evil and wondering stares of other shoppers because not one, but BOTH of my daughters were hysterically crying over Anna's dirty sucker. Have you ever heard my daughters cry? It's like police sirens wailing. Their cries carry like nothing else I've ever heard! Nothing I did calmed them down, and I was just short of sitting on the floor and crying myself. I have never been so embarrassed by my kids before! Luckily their moods changed once we walked into the Halloween section, but it is a moment I won't be forgetting anytime soon.

And to end this day on a more funny note...If you know my firstborn, you know her favorite food is the almighty cheeseburger. Well, on the way home from grocery shopping, she kept saying she wanted a cheeseburger for dinner...a cheeseburger from Lion King, to be exact. I was really confused, so when she couldn't clarify her statement I just nodded "mmhmmm" and drove on. Then she said, "But Mom, you already passed Lion King. I wanted a cheeseburger!". And I had my "aha!" moment. My very mixed up Annalise wanted a BURGER KING cheeseburger! I LOLed SO HARD when I realized what she meant. It's funny how kids can mix up stuff like that. And that single moment made me forget about the trauma I had just experienced 20 minutes earlier while grocery shopping.

I just hope that someday I can get used to and anticipate Anna's mood changes more accurately. I honestly think I might need help in learning how to deal with her down the road. She's only 4 and I already struggle. She's quicker than lightening, and let's just say it...I'm almost 30 and am no longer that quick.