Tuesday Feels

Okay, I know that it is Friday but it honestly felt like a Tuesday ALL day.

My morning, well I did not want to wake up this morning, but thats the same as every morning. I finally was having a heavy deep sleep and then that damn alarm went off.

The small human woke up in an impeccable mood this morning which was amazing because she usually doesn’t want to get out of bed either. We proceeded to get ready for the day, brushed our teeth, put TWO ponytails in her hair, packed Purple Kitty and Blanky and got into the truck. We did our usual hand holding, face rubbing routine the entire drive. We are about three blocks away from daycare and I get asked for help finding the all holy Snoose AKA soother. I reach between her leg and the car seat and pull it out for her. Snoose gets stuck in her mouth, half a block later, coughs, and then vomit. OH the amount of vomit that came out of that poor girl. It was everywhere. I pulled over, used my high-vis shirt to mop it all up as best as I could. We drove the rest of the way to day care, finished cleaning up left over throw up and talked about how she was feeling. After affirming she was good to go about 1000x times, we proceed into the building, vomit smelling and all. I informed her teacher of our morning mishap and she stated she would keep an eye out and call me if it continued. I did not receive a phone call at all during the day so I am almost positive that it was just a pet fur that she must have choked on which made her gag and throw up all the milk she drank over night.

After I dropped her off, I put the half-assed cleaned up vomit car seat in the back of the truck and opened the windows of the truck to get the smell out. Once my apprentice shows up, I warn him that the truck smells awful and thankfully he cant smell today.

I text my boss and let him know that there was a possibility that I may have to leave work today. Only response I received was “Did you pick up the cable”. Typical.

We go about our day, pulling cable until lunch time. We decided to go to Bronco’s for lunch where Dylan asks for a wrap with the hottest sauce that they have. The waitress brings  sampler of a ghost pepper sauce. Dylan says “oh yeah its good, I will have no issues with it.”

Waitress brings our meals, I go about eating an then I decide to look up and Dylan looks like he has been crying for days. Tears streaming down his checked and he is sweating like crazy. Dumb ass. Of course its going to be hot, they’re ghost peppers!

Then later on, and this may be too much info but I laughed so hard about it and didn’t even say anything about it for about 4 hours. The area we were working in was in and near the washrooms. I opened the door to the women’s washroom and was washing my hands and talking to him while he stood in the doorway and he say “Wow, the women’s washroom smells WAY better than the men’s” All I could do was laugh about it, because it was true, the main data room is through the mens washroom and it had a weird rotting smell. When it was really funny was on the way home and I thought about that particular moment again and started giggling. He asked me what was funny and I explained it to him and all he had to say was “well its true!” and I just burst out laughing and said ” I took a poop in there 5 minutes before! ” and then we both broke down laughing even harder. So today I learned that my poo smells pretty good apparently. I’m kidding, there was a spray, not really sure how he missed that one.

I cant wait to actually half-assed sleep in tomorrow. I think its really needed, except it will probably be the day that the small fry decides to wake up at 530 am for the day. Never fails. Three day weekend this weekend as well as next weekend due to family coming in from Ontario that we will spend the day with.

Now, I am going to go watch Supernatural and cry for the millionth time because I keep remembering that Castiel has died.

  • Moe

First Post

98EFCFE4-3DE5-44D0-899F-50442BE8D13D.jpegAlright, so I’ve been meaning to start something like this for a while now and finally acted on it.

I needed to get some words out so I figured it was a good time to do it and share all the words with whom ever may come across this.

I’ll start off with saying a bit about who I am. My name is Melissa. I am a 28, soon to be 29 year old working female single mother. I am a Journeyperson Electrician and have had my certification for two years now.  I have a two year old, spunky, charismatic, stubborn, beautiful little girl who is the thing that keeps me going.

I do my best as any parent does but some days get the best of me just like anyone else.

Today is not a good day. It is not completely horrible but its not good. That is the best way I can describe it.  I feel as if I am not in a good place in my life right now. I am exhausted all of the time, I cant work up the energy to do the simplest of things like keep my laundry straight. My house is a complete disaster and I come home, see it and just want to crawl into a hole and not deal with it. If I am sleeping, I cant see it right? Well I still think about it all of the time. I am stressed out at work, things haven’t been going the greatest and I am honestly trying so hard. I don’t know what else to do.

Being a single mother definitely has its perks but it also has its setbacks. Not being able to have much time away or just a moment to myself is one of the setbacks. I wouldn’t change my life for the world but sometimes a girl just needs a break. I’m sure a lot of people feel that way regardless if they are single, married, in a relationship, a parent, a teenager, an elderly person. Anyone.

I don’t have it in me to pawn her off on anyone as I feel that I am just inconveniencing them and that takes a toll on me as is. Oh I feel stupid right now, crying just thinking about it and typing this.

I have an amazing support system, yes I live with my mother, so she gets to see her grand-baby every day. (I’m also not ashamed to be living at home still. It creates a good space for my daughter and heps me save money) My daughter’s daddy is also my best friend, which is amazing. I wouldn’t want to co-parent with anyone else in the world and we are incredibly blessed with the situation we do have. Just sometimes I do feel that I am being a burden on others when I ask them to take her for the day or evening or whatever it may be, but then I feel that I am burdening myself when I am not with her because I miss her so much and I feel guilty by not being with her. Self guilt is so much of a thing  in life that gets way more intense once you have children. Its unreal.

Anyways, now that this first post is a pile of mumbo jumbo, I will end it with a hopeful look into the future of more days in my life of a working full time mom and the adventures of my pint sized human.

  • Moe