{"id":80,"date":"2010-09-05T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2010\/09\/05\/angry-on-a-sunday-morning\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T11:42:00","slug":"angry-on-a-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2010\/09\/angry-on-a-sunday-morning.html","title":{"rendered":"Angry on a Sunday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim<\/i><\/b>

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Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah<\/i>

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I actually got a decent amount of sleep last night, alhamdulillah. \u00a0I\u2019m not doing much today, bit of laundry. \u00a0Have grocery shopping to do.<\/p>\n

For some reason I woke up mad. \u00a0Just angry, grumpy, don\u2019t-anyone-mess-with-me mad. \u00a0Trying not to be short with the kids but I have low tolerance right now for any temper tantrums. \u00a0I\u2019m \u201ctouch fatigued\u201d as well. \u00a0Too much time with baby on my shoulder and toddler on my lap. \u00a0I just don\u2019t want any physical contact with anyone right now. \u00a0Mommies don\u2019t get a lot of personal space but today I am imposing it, even if my two year old is upset. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what causes these mood slumps. \u00a0I go from normal to just really negative. \u00a0I can\u2019t do anything productive, look at the world with a jaundiced eye, spoiling for a fight. \u00a0The only good thing is that I know <\/i>that I\u2019m not myself, that this is not me, so I can be just separate enough from the anger that I don\u2019t let it overwhelm me. \u00a0I just try to be quiet, to mind my tongue and not talk at all, lest some smart-aleck or snippy comment slip out. \u00a0Just have to ride the wave and wait for it to subside. \u00a0It can last a day or weeks or longer.<\/p>\n

I wonder sometimes if it is due to my diet. \u00a0I get on binges where I do things like drink a lot of soda or have too much sugar. \u00a0I keep telling myself \u00a0I have to eat better, but when I\u2019m in the middle of a funk I reflexively reach for the junk. \u00a0I don\u2019t keep soda in the house, but hubby has been bringing a can every couple of days from the masjid after he goes to iftaar there, or I grab one from the checkstand at the grocery store. \u00a0I think maybe it\u2019s coming down from the sugar \/ caffeine high. \u00a0I know that when I\u2019ve really gone overboard on the sugar, like eating an entire bag of Reese\u2019s peanut butter cups, the next day or two I\u2019m really logy and even have arthritic symptoms. \u00a0You\u2019d think I\u2019d learn.<\/p>\n

Well, I do have to make a change. \u00a0Now that I\u2019m recovered from Zaid\u2019s birth and getting at least marginally satisfactory sleep, I need to get on the ball about exercising. \u00a0I have a professional weighted hula hoop to use \u2013 it\u2019s very good for the abdomen and mimics, say, belly dancing. \u00a0Hubby brought me some step machine that I haven\u2019t used yet, and I have some exercise videos. \u00a0I have a membership at the Y that I let lapse because I could never get away to go there, but that might change now. \u00a0If I can get away, I have to, for my own sake.<\/p>\n

Seeing a post on me being angry might surprise people. \u00a0I know I tend to be only upbeat, posting positive snippets here or on FB. \u00a0What, Nancy is human after all? \u00a0Yep, I\u2019m normal, only moreso. \u00a0I have ups and downs and sometimes say a bad word when I stub my toe, yell at my kids, that sort of thing. \u00a0I usually don\u2019t post about it because, hey, everyone has challenges and I\u2019m so not into throwing a pity-party for myself. \u00a0Usually I just slog through the mood and then eventually it fades away. \u00a0Til then, I fake it til I make it. <\/p>\n

Having kids helps. \u00a0You have <\/i>to function on some level when you have kids. \u00a0They have to be fed, dressed, talked to. \u00a0I purposely spent some time looking at Zaid and smiling at him, just to get him to smile back so I could let those positive mommy hormones kick in. \u00a0I forced myself to start the laundry, bleh, and came here to write even though I really didn\u2019t want to. \u00a0I honestly do feel a bit better. \u00a0I think I\u2019m getting less passive about the anger and more confrontational. \u00a0\u201cYou won\u2019t get the better of me, dark cloud!\u201d. \u00a0 It won\u2019t go away, but I can keep it from totally overshadowing my day. <\/p>\n

Abdel Hamid wants me to bake some cornbread today. \u00a0I\u2019m kinda \u201cnot in the mood\u201d but I will do it anyway because he wants it and he\u2019s such a great kid. \u00a0He knows I\u2019m tired so he said tomorrow is fine, but I\u2019ll push through because that\u2019s what he deserves. \u00a0Hey, it\u2019s cornbread, not a $200 iPod or whatever :).<\/p>\n

Okay, time to go pick up the baby, who is lying on his back on the bed gurgling at the talking heads on CNN. \u00a0Mervat runs to check on him periodically \u2013 she has the mommy instinct for sure. \u00a0Yusef just came to tell me he\u2019s hungry, no surprise, lisping slightly due to a missing tooth. \u00a0Yasin is chilling on the couch watching some lame cartoon. \u00a0Most cartoons are lame nowadays. \u00a0They need to watch some classic Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n

Okay, got that out of my system.<\/p>\n

Fi Aman Allah,<\/p>\n

Nancy<\/p>\n

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