It's True

YOU GUYS. Today was a good day. In the midst of my seemingly never-ending terrible awful horrible streak of bad days, today was decent.

Yesterday, the toddler and I were crying together, and today- only she had tantrums! What a fantastic turnaround!

While I'm certain another one of these days won't come for awhile, I'll go ahead and put it in writing, so I can look back on this 15th day of October and remember I didn't cry!

I'll tell you what I did do! I DID make a custom dress. I decided to make a dress for Annabelle without using any type of tutorial or pattern, and to make it custom fit by using her as the model and pinning the fabric true to her size! And what a liberating idea it was! I didn't feel frustrated or out of control, and I was totally in charge... who knew all I had to do to feel in charge was to create a beautiful Christmas dress?!! Annabelle likes it too, which I suppose matters.

Also, I decided to give the dog a desperately needed haircut,which turned out pretty bad. My clippers died mid-cut, so I had to borrow a pair from the neighbor. Now, her clippers are way better than the ones I was using. so I virtually had to start over, but also didn't realize until it was WAY too late that my dog was getting a hackjob. She has random bald spots, and seriously is a hot mess. But, it's pretty damn funny to see. Poor dog.

I also did something that I am quite certain I have not done since Annabelle was born.  I left the house before bed time, without my child or my husband. That's right, folks, I was away from my spawn while she was still awake. For 3 hours, I was out by myself, having an awesome time with friends. Who I'm pretty sure were quite surprised to see that I can engage in conversation when I'm not chasing horribly behaved toddlers around. Seriously, people should really learn to control their children...I mean, come on, how difficult is it? OH! Lets not forget that I got to miss putting her to bed. I don't think I even felt guilty.

Anyway, I really just thought I should inform the world that on occasion- SUPER RARE occasion- a good day can happen. Don't even think about wishing for another, but write it down, so you can remember that one time, there was a day when you didn't think you might end up in a psych ward because your child is a Deatheater.