It's heavy. I'm bummed this evening.
I don't know if it's that she's not feeling well, or what, but my sidekick hasn't been behaving very well lately.
I don't know what's wrong, but we took her to Manchester with us and she just couldn't seem to stop picking on Joel or her sister. They started fighting the minute we left the driveway until we pulled back up to call Sarah to come get them. Usually though it's Mallory who picks the fights. This time though, it was Mikyla.
Poor Joleybean burned his lil chin on a pop tart yesterday and I turned to quiet them just as she reached up and rubbed the red raw spot on Joel's lil chin. He went into screaming fits. I know that hurt. It went from there to jabbing at Mallory with her little plastic horse, screaming, yelling, just overall misbehavior.
Mikyla has always been so good to mind me, and when I told her if she didn't stop I was taking her home, she fell apart... crying, begging for one more chance. I told her we'd given her a dozen chances, and she cried so hard I gave her one more.. but even then she just couldn't seem to bring herself to stop picking on the little ones to make them cry.
We brought her home for real and Sarah came to get them. I told Mikyla she couldn't stay all night with me anymore until she started minding me again. She cried like her heart was broken and God knows mine was. I don't understand what's gotten into her. She's never been like this before. Her usual misbehavior consists of crying and being grouchy - and that's when she always ends up having an ear infection.
Now it's getting dark and I'm missing my sidekick something fierce. About now we'd be out on the porch, having ice cream, or swinging on the swing..
This is her last summer with me before school starts and with spring dragging on with the cold and rain, we've not really had much good weather to get out and enjoy our last summer before school starts. And now she's taken to not wanting to mind me. Sassing, just.. she doesn't act like Mikyla lately. I hate this. Now Sarah's grounded her from her swimming pool for a week.
Please, Mikyla be yourself again so you can come back and stay with me some before school. I miss you. I miss you big. :*(
Posted by juel at June 12, 2005 07:38 PM