Corona is the New Calgon

How's your day going? Mine's not so good. I just had the ultimate meanie mom moment. I was going to make you a list of what led up to it, but it turned out to be boring and mundane and whiney. And really, who cares? All you need to know is that the repetitiveness of my days, the laundry, the kitchen, the floors, combined with being housebound with 3 sick children over the past week all culminated this morning with me exploding at J for using up half a roll of newly replaced TP. This waste seemed particularly criminal after a morning where he requested a breakfast smoothie and a cheese bagel and then didn't eat either.

Apparently wasted TP, smoothies, and cheese bagels were too much for my emotional state to handle and I ended up screaming at him about wastefulness and how mommy and daddy don't have a lot of money and why does he think it's okay to waste it? I may also have yelled something about if he has a little tiny boy butt, then why WHY WHY is he using enough TP to wipe an elephant's arse?

Then, everything got worse because Baby Roo, who perhaps didn't know what to do with a mother who was screaming like a banshee, starting whining "Mommy, mommy, mommy!" at me. But I was way too into my tirade and ended up shouting at her to shut up.

I told my 18 month old to shut up.

And then I put myself on a time out. I went into the bathroom. I might have cried a little bit.

So, to sum it up, this is where I'm at right now:

And this is where I need to be:

Anyone who could help me get there will be awarded with a never-ending lifetime supply of TP.

Thank you.