Top 10 Peeves of 2013

So here we are, 2014! Hope you all are looking forward to a hopeful new year; I know that I am, especially after the first few days of this year are really looking easy to improve upon. New Year's day looked a little like this: I was awakened by blue children, yes blue. So this set me out of bed searching for the source. Of course, it was paint. Of course it was acrylic. Which we don't even own, so apparently had been purchased on the toddler black market with crayon stubs and smuggled in. This incident, not wanting to go gently into that good morning, was later eclipsed by my almost five year old completely forgetting everything he ever learned in Miller Potty Boot Camp three year previously. Followed up, of course, by a close third, but extremely irritating, smashing and repairing of the same toy thrice.
Never mind that this toy had been in commission only 15 measly minutes. It didn't take long for Baby Miller to discover the joy of inter-toy play by jamming in a furry worm toy into the gears of said newly commissioned mechanical toy. I tell you, it was no easily won battle to disentangle the fishing wire but spurred on by disappointed toddler tears, (which seems to be my primary motivational force these days), I screw-drivered my way to victory. (Which I KNOW isn’t a word, but screwing my way to victory seemed a bit off-putting and easily mis-interpretable…. Which also isn’t a word)
Little did I remember that a battle won does not win the war. I’ve never been a history buff...so this applied to me double fold - when not remembered, it tends to repeat itself. In this case, three more times before this toy got shelved. Permanently. This time, no amount of disappointed toddler tears was able to move my heart of stone. Thanks but no thanks, Santa.

 That being said, here are my Top 10 Peeves of 2013
10. Being Lawyered by my Four-year old
"Gigi, are you working tomorrow? No? Good, then I can spend the night, right? I’ll go get my things."
9. Not getting naptime to diffuse.
 "But Finny said he WANTED to open all the windows and throw the legos on the lawn!"
8. Road trips that end in long two hour long lines which when you get to the front of, someone always has to poop and you have to resign your place in line.
"Oh well, We'll just try Santa's Wonderland again next year....." (aka NOT EVER EVER AGAIN!)
 7. Merry Birthmas presents
Shout out to my December peeps. 'Nuf said.
6. 80 degree weather in December
"Ok, get those shorts out kids! You win this time. Swimming anyone?"
5. Laboring over Boeuf Bourguignon only to face yet another dinner stand-off.
 "No, you may NOT have chicken nuggets!"
 4. Fast food belly
One of the many evils of the Holidays for the Millers.... lots of not being home during meal times. Thank GOODNESS for New Years Resolutions. Except that my resolution this year is to not spend NYE alone, watching Duck Dynasty, and polishing off the leftover Christmas Egg-nog. Did I mention, ALONE?!
3. Forgetting bought groceries at the grocery store.
Because one trip isn't BRUTAL enough.
2. Running out of coffee. Closely followed by running out of wine.
I need my own stimulus elf. No joke

And the top peeve of 2013
 1. NOT spending enough time RELAXING
I can say no, I really can. See, No, no no no no no. .... ok maybe...ok what time do I need to be there. Dang. I blew it.