Back Story.
(and whoops I do know I used my kids names, meh...)
We are in the throughs of showing our house and hopefully selling it so that we may move to greener pastures (literally)...we want land and animals.
So the big scary of a possible move , we have been talking the stuffing out of every single scenario, re-visiting anxiety;s (yes, your bed comes, and all of our the animals too, no the new people do not get your stuff)
Toss Daddy cleaning all of the carpets with a professional Carpet Cleaner, and it being birthday week, yup the perfect Storm has been a-brewing.
So no surprise here when I found lip-stick smeared all over my newly scrubbed tub this morning, and in my carpet, and in the living room, and in Diva's room. Awesomesauce.
Excuse the fingers blocking a good second half of this video, but I hope it gives a good example of this fine dance,(with ALL of the background insanity of a gazillion kiddo's) I even triggered her, but got her back after inviting her brother to help clean up as well...
For your viewing pleasure "Curiosity": (again sorry about the misplacement of fingers)
Making it right:
She didn't like it, she was sad, but she was also relieved, most of all because her birthday is tomorrow. At one point I went in and helped her, she was panicked that it was not coming out perfectly...and I grabbed that gorgeous little face and told her, "No matter what, no matter if it doesn't come out, no matter , maybe if you did do this to the carpet, when you go to bed tonight , i am making cup cakes, we are having your Princess Birthday party, you matter more than silly carpet."
and this, on a good day, when I have my crap together is how we roll Curiosity style. Yo.
By the way...later I discovered my dog, Wednesday was also a spectacularly familiar shade of "Very Berry" pink....awwwww cute, cute.
you go Mama, you are rockstar! I love the look in her face. My kids were listening and kept commenting on how busted she was, it was such a good learning thing for them cause then we got to talk about how that happens here. Hope today is better, round here we have one who has gone back to bed cause things were going so south this morning that just seemed like the best plan.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this....it is helpful to watch it in real life, not just to read about it, not just to watch professionals role play it...maybe it's just me, but I sort of hear in your tone in the first video a tiny bit of understandable frustration when you're talking about how Daddy cleaned all the carpets...but you reel it in, make the tone better, and then when another kid comes asking for a snack, you use a good tone with him, too, whereas I would probably have just been frustrated as I told him to stop interrupting. I love the tool of searching for a solution from a neutral third party but really love your tone and words as you thank her for helping you out and tell her she's awesome.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this! So helpful and awesome. Hope the pink came out eventually.
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