Everybody have those days

and today, turned out to be mine.

It is a day, where you don't want to be me.

Both Jaden and I had a Occupational Therapy (OT) replacement class today, to replace next week's as we will be back in Penang, celebrating both my parents' birthday and of course, Mother's Day with my mother.

Jaden was already not on his best behavior, at times when trying to runaway from a task, he will throw a tantrum only to find out that nobody would obliged to his bad behavior and that he has to complete the task before he is let off.

Since Jaden will not be having any classes until 3pm, I thought I might as well quickly run some errands and take him for a hair trim that is way long overdue.

Thinking I can kill two birds with one stone, pay the bills, post out some parcels and have his hair trim at the same place, only to find myself having to run in between two post office. Two errands in two different post office.

Yea.

As I was lining up, trying to fill up the parcel forms, Jaden was already attempting escape. I knew he would be misbehaving, so I put the child harness on him, only to have him scream and cry and shriek in a very small enclosed crowded post office. 

Oh boy, you really don't want to be me when you can feel all the eyeballs in there staring at me. You can literally read their thoughts about how naughty my child is or how useless a mother I am. *sigh* Thankfully I have got one of the thickest skin around, so I sucked it up, let him cry and carried on lining up because it was my turn next. I wouldn't want to take him out of the post office and then line up again and wait and waste more time, do I?

Since posting out parcels and paying bills are on a separate line and there were just too many people around that is also paying bills and all sorts, I decided I shall do it on my own, maybe a little later in the afternoon. So I took Jaden to have his hair trimmed..

.. and that is when the madness continues.

I even bought his fav car mags, which I had hoped highly that will distract him and give the lady ample time to trim his back hair and fringe, only to have him scream and cry and kick and push at the very sight of the lady holding scissors and comb. 

In the end, we only managed to have his fringe trimmed but back hair untouched. He was really untouchable! Luckily the lady charged me only RM5 despite getting kicked by Jaden.

I was grateful that the lady was willing to try to cut his hair despite all the tantrum, and him without the cape and not on the seat though the younger barbers were shaking their head at Jaden. The disgust on their face ! *sigh* but I am too tired to be bothered to explain why Jaden would act this way. 

Then I remembered that I have some banking errands to run and that is further up, so I made my way to the bank, deposited in what I had to and turned into Giant's carpark. Might as well go settle the bills and since there are fries there, I shall just bribe Jaden with fries while I wait for my turn.

So while buying the fries, and waiting for them to fry me a new batch without salt, Jaden sat on the table and when I asked him to come down after we got our orders, he flipped the table. 

Imagine me, one hand holding on to his food, hoping he wouldn grab them and turn the whole thing upside down, one hand with a bag, and trying to hold on to him too, as he was ready to sprint off. I wasn't going to let my guards down after the most recent kidnapping case of the international school boy, and let Jaden wander off without me holding to his little hands. 

and best of all, there were no gentlemen around to come to my aid. All sat and watched with their oily fried chicken in their mouth while I try to pull and put the table back to its position.

Thankfully, I found a trolley and threw Jaden in while I wheeled him around and sat on a bench outside the post office, while he happily munches away on his fries, and me praying hard that nothing else would follow .. and well, guess you can say I survived the day out with my son today.

Brought him home in time, before it rained cats and dogs and well, thanks to his class schedule, I have some time to myself to unwind while he goes straight into his therapy class with his therapist. 

*phew*

You really don't want to be me today !