Feeling tired and frustrated

Charles was realy well behaved these two days. He was polite and even helped out at home. I think he had thought through and wanted to be a good boy. Anyway, I think we were unable to take care of his emotional needs so he always does things to get attention. Even though the negative ones.

Yesterday we did not go out except going to the park for a while before dinner. I lost my temper while trying to clean up the house and ended up slapping Chantz and taking a nap till 2.30pm. Joe did not prepare lunch for kids as he said they were not hungry. I heated up the baked rice we had on Saturday and they finished everything.

The time at the park was fun and children were able to run about for half an hour. After that we went for dinner at 5.30pm. We only had fried noodles, fried tou fu and tom yam but the food seemed just nice.

After we reached home, we watched some shows before asking children to go to bed at 9 plus. They were so used to going to bed late during the weekends that they complained that they could not go to leep. I think we should only allowed them to sleep late on Friday nite. Sat to be the usual bed time. We had story time and after a while everyone was asleep except baby. She kept me up till about 11 plus and I was dead tired by the time I hit the bed. Somehow as it was over the very sleepy stage, I could not sleep at all. Seemed to be wide awake and yet not so.
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Children have chess lesson today and I wondered if they were okay. slipped a note in their lunch box and hoped they remembered to go during lunch hour.

I watched " Super nanny USA" just now. Seems like children all over world quite the same. Throwing tantrums an trying to get their ways around adults.

I think Sunday should be a day we out from the house. STaying at home can drive me crazy and I am not going to do housework when children at home as I will flare up and ended up punishing them for being inconsiderate and mess up the place.