Sometimes mommy needs a timeout

Today has been a day already-and it's only 8:45am. It started at midnight, when Lexi decided to wake up and just play in her bed until 2:00am, then she was awake at 6:30 and ready to go. Since then, she's been on the move and has just been naughty. She's constantly on the go. If she's awake, she's doing something (usually something she's not supposed to). For the most part, I can handle this fact. It's exhausting, but also pretty fun to see what she's learning. Today was different.

After peeing on the floor, torturing the cat, screaming at me multiple times, and dumping all of our DVDs out on the floor, I decided it was time for a mommy timeout. This doesn't mean that I put myself in a locked room, and just let Lexi have free reign over the house. It means Lexi gets an early morning nap while I remove myself from the situation to prevent myself from getting overly frustrated and creating more bad behavior-kids feed off bad attitude. The thing is, this wouldn't work if she wasn't really ready for a nap. She would normally scream and cry if she doesn't need to sleep, but when I put her in her crib a few minutes ago, she simply laid down and covered herself with a blanket. Let's hope when she wakes up in an hour or so we're both ready for a new start to the day.

I have no idea what creates days like this, but it seems like today is one of the worst that we've had in months. She's had some big changes in the past week, not that I think she's completely aware of what's going on, but I think she's aware that I've been a bit down even though I don't think I let it effect our time together. We've got our work cut out for us the next several months.I'm still learning as I go. A friend on Facebook shared this picture yesterday, and I love it. It rings true for me, especially today:

here's to a better afternoon!