Arghh....

Difficult day at work today. Dealing with IT folks is always a hassle, especially when they act like it's a big deal to explain things and then tell you, gently but firmly, that you've got a steep learning curve when it comes to learning things like Web design, photo re-sizing, etc. Apparently the fact that I was hired with absolutely no experience in this area and that there was no need or interest in such skills in my former career didn't make a difference.

And Rachel is now getting bored with all the songs I sing; she'll say, "Sing a new song, Mommy," and when I begin, she'll say, "I don't LIKE that song," and then I'll start another song and she'll say, "I don't LIKE that song," and it continues until I get completely exasperated. Yesterday I told her that I wouldn't sing any more songs because she doesn't like any of my choices. Now she will request a few -- "Rise and Shine," and "Solidarity Forever' (Solirary fuhever, she calls it) -- and if she doesn't, I'll either ignore her requests to sing or I'll say, "Mommy needs to rest her voice." I feel terribly guilty doing it, because the day may come when I'll miss the fact that my daughter once wanted me to sing to her. But it's also hard to be creative at the end of a long, tiring, discouraging day and trying to talk to Drew at the same time while losing my train of thought every time Rachel demands something from the back seat. She has started using the phrase "RIGHT NOW" and I've told her repeatedly not to do that -- it's disrespectful -- but I was so frustrated in my attempts to have a conversation with my husband and deal with Rachel that I almost screamed at her. It ended up with me hanging up the phone. I've decided that trying to have conversations with people on the way home is totally useless.

Oh, she did say one cute thing. Her daycare took her to a pumpkin patch on Monday and she was more thrilled that she got to ride a bus than she was with the pumpkins (although she told me she wanted Daddy -- or was it Mommy? -- to lift her up in the pumpkin patch). Anyway, tonight she said, "I wanna ride the bus."

"I wanna ride the bus with Mommy and Daddy and James and Patt and Steve and Amanda and Jenn. Hello, everyone!"