As you may know the White Family have all had the most wonderful holiday but before I got chance to fully empty the suitcases (still haven’t quite got around to completing that job!) the sky turned dark and so did the White family mood….
It all started with milly, she woke up the day after we got back uncharacteristically grumpy and cried all day, she cried when I picked her up, she cried when I put her down, she cried when I feed her, she even wailed when she got in the bath dispite an especially fantastic show put on by Mr Duck and his 3 brothers! I rang Granny j for some much needed advise and she just said she was probably missing her (my mum and the Milsta are very close) and that maybe she had after holiday blues. Was this possible? Could a 7 month old baby really be on a post holiday downer. I wasn’t convinced but on with life we got.
Then on Monday night I was woken at 12.30 from a particularly nice dream by the sound of heavy sobbing, I followed the sound to my teenage daughters bedroom where I found her slumpted over her computer screen crying that she had no friends since she got back off holiday and that her life (at the grand old age of 13) was OVER….
After about an hour of cajoling from me and sobbing from her I discovered that her life wasn’t actually over but her so called best friends were just being particularly horrible, I blame TV, all teenagers seem to be very mean and heartless and they can cut you down on MSN in less time than it takes to say skins!
Anyway By 2am I had managed to calm her down enough for us all to get some much needed rest, and as I lay in bed I pondered an interesting thought, being a mum of a seven month old baby and a teenager (as well as a very chilled out 9 year old boy, thank god!) I have realised that babies and teenagers are very simular, they both like to stay up all night, sleep all day, are prone to being irrational and are very hard to reason with!
By the morning everything seemed a bit calmer except that Big j was sick of his job and Little j was feed up with school holidays!
I now have stress spots and a sty in my right eye thats making me twitch, all memories of our lovely Devon seem well and truely over and its kinda made me wonder wether we should of just stayed at home!
But then I look back at the picture and our happy faces goofally staring back and I realise that as usual the great Granny j is right, it is just the holiday blues and the White family life will resume shortly, Here’s hoping!
Till next time,
Helen xxx
Tags: holiday blues, rain