Two. Terrible two's? Everything I have read and every piece of advice I have been offered are different and do not make sense. Some days Evie can be brilliant, and I think wow, I have really lucked out in the toddler years... but come the next morning and it's like my little two year old has turned 16 over night and is majoring in drama. Where the hell did she get this from? From telling me to "go away" to slamming doors and dropping her bundle because I didn't buy something she liked or her favourite show ended before she was ready. I get embarrassed easily, so when Evie is not behaving when we are out and pretending like her legs don't work and I'm dragging her along the ground and I want to burst into tears and then look around I have half a dozen nosy sods starring at me wondering what my next move is and how much of a scene I will make, I look at them, smile and think about how terrible it is for them to judge other people when I can bet they have gone through this themselves many years ago.. when I see a mother in the same situation, I smile, so that she knows that I know what it is like and you have to do what you can do to survive. Everyday brings a different lesson, frustration and stress. No book or person can tell you what it's going to be like, or what to do to fix it, you have to go with the flow, and remember its not forever.
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