Patience is supposedly a virtue...

I wouldn't know because I don't seem to own any patience. 

At 8.15 this morning, I was rushing around trying to get Scarlett dressed and myself dressed. She wouldn't stand up to let me pull her tights up as apparently,

'Cats can't stand up and I am a cat.' 

I lifted her off the bed and told her to go and put her shoes on, she collapsed and crushed the blister on my foot and I accidentally poked her in the eye. 

She cried, I shouted:

'Stop messing around, we haven't got time for you to be a cat!' 

I then felt bad and we hugged. I then tried to do her hair and she complained I was,

'Pulling it too hard!' 

I shouted, she sniffled. I apologised and she meowed.

Maybe it was because we were rushing but I just kept snapping. I then found coco pops on the floor and tried to make a joke,

'Are you feeding the mice?!' 

(FYI we don't have mice, I was trying not to shout.) she cried, I reached for a bottle of wine before looking at the clock...8.30AM, we had to leave for school. 

So, I Googled how to be more calm as I was feeling pretty stressed. I have done something like this before in a previous blog post but that obviously didn't work so I was hoping there is a magical cure. 

Suggestion 1 of how to be more calm, Exercise.

So I went for a run...

Yes, I had on Minnie Mouse ear muffs to keep my headphones in my ears. 

Suggestion 2. Read a book. 

I couldn't find my copy of 50 shades, so I read a magazine instead. 

Suggestion 3. Eat healthy.

I hate half a box of Special K. What?! If you buy 3 boxes, you get a free spoon with your name on. I want a spoon! 

Suggestion 4. Get a good nights sleep.

Night had passed, so I had a nap in my green tea bath. I had some lemon and lime tea bags I don't like so I put them in the bath. Yes that is normal...for me. 

Suggestion 5. Write down what makes you angry. 

• People walking behind me too close. 

• Long queues.

• Stupid people (myself excluded.) 

• Not being able to have a bath everyday.

• Chocolate, for being so bad for me but so irresistible. 

• Cold weather and the wind. It's hard to be mad at wind as it's invisible but it really p's me off. 

• Being woken up early. 

• Getting closer to being 30. 

• The fact that Johnny Depp hasn't asked me to marry him yet. 

• The sad half fact that money doesn't grown on trees. (But if money is classed as paper, is the above technically true?) 

• The fact that I could make this list never ending. 

Suggestion 6. Write what does make you happy. 

• Scarlett but she could also be placed in the above too. (See suggestion 5.) 

• Writing. 

• Moaning. 

• Reading. 

• Sunshine. 

• Sleeping. 

• Other miscellaneous things. 

Suggestion 7. The next time you feel you are about to shout, count to 10 and then calmly explain your point. 

Good point but I would forget to do that. Strangely, when anger hits I am not thinking about maths. 

Suggestion 8. Realise how lucky you are. 

I am lucky. I have a lot of good things in my life and while I am far from perfect, there is no magical cure for being human and being a Mum. (Ta dah!) 

I have to constantly remind myself there is no handbook for being a parent and you have to make the rules as each day comes. Sometimes the rules bend and break and that is ok. 

We put too much pressure on ourselves to be 'perfect parents' lets just he ourselves and see what happens. 

Nothing that bad can happen...can it?!