Worn Out!

I don't have any answers to life.  My grandchildren are hard to get up in the morning because they are hard to get to bed at night.  The morning routine is fraught with tears and yelling.  The same thing with bedtime.  I am WAY behind at school and WAAAAYYY behind at home.  Nothing I do successfully changes anything. 

I'm trying to figure out why things are so much more stressful now than they were in the spring before I was off for the summer.  Meg reminded me that she was working at Kelly then--just 10 minutes away from home, and was picking up the kids, herself.  OH...so THAT'S why I could manage a nap before the dinner onslaught!

It particularly hurts me that the children are in a competitive/negative mode when I pick them up in the evenings.  Today, I was so fed up that I left them in the car when we got home.  I went back out to get them two minutes later, but they decided that Mommy would save them from wicked Grandma when she got home.  Shortly thereafter, I took Robin with me to Wal-Mart to do grocery shopping.  We were gone a long time.  Ryan was still in the bathtub when we got back, and Robin taunted him with a game that I had bought for them.  ARRRGGHHHHH!

Nathan and Megan have determined that there needs to be a split weekend, whereby one child goes to Muncie and the other stays here...then the reverse for the weekend after that.  This is the weekend to try that.  Robin is to go to Muncie and Ry is to stay here.  One on one, both kids are great.  'Tis the together thing that causes problems.  I keep thinking that there has to be another life for all of us, but I'm buried trying to decide how it will all work out. 

Where is my mommy when I need her????  Oh, yeah...**I** am the mommy now.  Hope I can live long enough to see an answer to the messes....