Why does it seem like every time I take 2 steps forward, I take 2 (or 5) steps back...

Had a bad day at the office, getting sick, tired, stressed about the sitch...get home from work say hi to the boys and the W (wife sick, tired, in a bad mood too) and make my dinner...

S8 (who has a minor learning disability) is busy with homework and S5 is building legos...

S8 struggling with homework and not focusing, so I (politely) ask S8 to focus on his work and finish up because it's getting late. S8 blows up, I (slightly) blow up back, S8 storms out of the room, and W yells at me "why do you always have to push him so hard!" Because I'm already in a great mood and getting better I say "Everything bad in your life and his is not my fault."

I go to S8 room and apologize and discuss the issues with him. He goes back downstairs and finishes his homework. W mad and says 3 words the rest of the night...

So much for acting as if and keeping the road at home smooth...

M36 W35 S8 S5
M11 T17
ILYB Bomb: 01/25/12
Still living in the same house, sharing the same bed, trying to make it better

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly."