We live in an apartment. The neighbors on one side we rarely hear and it seems like they rarely hear us. The neighbors across the hall were gone all day so I didn't feel like the kids being loud would ever bother them, but now there's a new woman there who I feel "watched" by and just don't like. (Thankfully between floors there's concrete and nothing sound-wise transmits.) I'm having a horrid morning and I'm freaked out that the nosy neighbor will call CPS or something.
DH and I had an argument last night. DD woke up in the middle of the night moaning something about her best friend. DH did not bring her downstairs to our bedroom so she was loud for a while, kicked him because she wanted him to carry her downstairs.
This morning, nearly-5-year-old DD has been ridiculously contrary and difficult--she says she's a grown up, she's not weaned, she wants cinnamon bread for breakfast, but doesn't actually want to eat it... So when I told her to wash her hands for breakfast, she splashed soapy water in my eyes and yelled. I yelled back, and banged the medicine cabinet door closed... and it broke!
I'm quite certain that I did not slam it that hard, but it is 30 years old. Big pieces fell down and cut my hand. Thankfully DD is fine and DS was not in the room. Then DS is in a climbing monkey stage (16 mo) and has fallen out of a kids chair, off a stool, and managed to close a drawer on his finger. (I swear, the place is baby proofed, he's just a little houdini.) DD threw a fit again about not wanting to get dressed--screaming, yelling, contrary, disagreeable. We heard banging on the wall right after. It sounds like it's from the next door neighbors, though we've never heard anything from them before... DH thinks it's unrelated and they were doing something over there not trying to complain, but it didn't happen again. (It did serve to freak DD out and stop her throwing that fit.)
I'm still shaken by the mirror breaking and several other things going on like my mother being in the hospital and relationship stuff. DD is extremely annoying right now. I know that we'll get through all this stuff, and eventually DD and I won't be butting heads, and I don't want discipline advice. I'm just freaked out now that between the screaming girl, yelling mom, sound of the breaking mirror, and the baby crying, that someone will call CPS or something. I dunno, I guess I just need a couple of hugs and to know that 1 day of screaming doesn't generally cause people to call.
Ugh. And now they're screaming at each other because DD is trying to take something from DS. Of course this has to be in the front hallway where anyone in the hallway can hear everything.
DH and I had an argument last night. DD woke up in the middle of the night moaning something about her best friend. DH did not bring her downstairs to our bedroom so she was loud for a while, kicked him because she wanted him to carry her downstairs.
This morning, nearly-5-year-old DD has been ridiculously contrary and difficult--she says she's a grown up, she's not weaned, she wants cinnamon bread for breakfast, but doesn't actually want to eat it... So when I told her to wash her hands for breakfast, she splashed soapy water in my eyes and yelled. I yelled back, and banged the medicine cabinet door closed... and it broke!
I'm quite certain that I did not slam it that hard, but it is 30 years old. Big pieces fell down and cut my hand. Thankfully DD is fine and DS was not in the room. Then DS is in a climbing monkey stage (16 mo) and has fallen out of a kids chair, off a stool, and managed to close a drawer on his finger. (I swear, the place is baby proofed, he's just a little houdini.) DD threw a fit again about not wanting to get dressed--screaming, yelling, contrary, disagreeable. We heard banging on the wall right after. It sounds like it's from the next door neighbors, though we've never heard anything from them before... DH thinks it's unrelated and they were doing something over there not trying to complain, but it didn't happen again. (It did serve to freak DD out and stop her throwing that fit.)I'm still shaken by the mirror breaking and several other things going on like my mother being in the hospital and relationship stuff. DD is extremely annoying right now. I know that we'll get through all this stuff, and eventually DD and I won't be butting heads, and I don't want discipline advice. I'm just freaked out now that between the screaming girl, yelling mom, sound of the breaking mirror, and the baby crying, that someone will call CPS or something. I dunno, I guess I just need a couple of hugs and to know that 1 day of screaming doesn't generally cause people to call.
Ugh. And now they're screaming at each other because DD is trying to take something from DS. Of course this has to be in the front hallway where anyone in the hallway can hear everything.
) and let them wreak havoc in there.
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Living in apts is though. Try not to think about that neighbor too much. Chances are, she doesn't care.
