eaglesnest

The living situation is not getting better.

Roommate & her son are not adjusting or trying to make things work.

My kids & I are making all sorts of routine changes to help accommodate them & their “schedule” and the chaos which ensues if the boys eat a meal together while the roommate is present or attempt to work out being two small boys living under the same roof.

- note — when I am the only adult present the boys can & do eat calmly together and can & do go to bed at the same time and stay in bed and go to sleep & we talk through any sharing issues or what-have-yous like civilized folk

Today a question asked by a 5 yr old was misheard and misconstrued and the roommate cracked, just how hard and how fully is yet to be seen, but among her words were that they were moving out ……

My work week was already curtailed by the power outage of Tuesday which lasted 12 hours plus and by a pre-arranged visit with the magic baby yesterday & the rest of that afternoon being consumed with trying to address the toy problem and the fact that everything that belongs to me or my 2 children is piled into my one bedroom [[as we wait for the roommate to move out of her bedroom and into her son’s bedroom (as per her suggestion, mind you)]] and therefore we tried to organize and manage so we can actually use the room since we end up stuck there for so much of our day.

And now it really seems as if the only way I will ever work is if I move my office BACK upstairs to my bedroom I now share with my son, the dog and everything that belongs to my daughter.

Yes … I am a bit stressed & am having a hellacious time trying to focus on major work piling up.

Unfortunately, the honest answer to the benign question my son asked my daughter “why don’t you like —- (the roommate’s son) when he is wild?” is that he is seriously affecting my work and my peace of mind, my daughter is not a happy camper to be in the midst of this drama, my dog has become justifiably nervous and upset around a child who torments him and my son can’t understand why his little buddy causes so much upheaval and I can’t keep juggling all of that and survive.

It isn’t so much that we do not like this child — we can not live around this child and the aftermath he causes .– we do not like when he is wild, Sam I am, not here or there, not anywhere.