Monday

The weekend passed in a blur. Sunday I had to spend all day alone with the kids and it was terrible. They are the loudest, most obnoxious brats I have ever had to watch in my life. They are worse than all the kids I've ever watched combined! They don't listen to a word I say English or Spanish. They always fight and one of them ends of crying their head off for an hour and it's so annoying. I tried to play games with them in Spanish and English. We made mini personal pizzas which they just tore apart the kitchen and then whined that they didn't like  what they made. I let them watch tv while I cleaned up and then we went for a walk to the park and they wouldn't play. I offered to get them icecream on our walk but they yelled at me and said no because it wasn't the right kind. Later I tried to put Lucas in a different spot than his brothers and he wouldn't go and just yelled and yelled. The two older ones were fist fighting and so I tried to be in the middle so they would stop but they just kept hitting and man do they hit hard. I was in tears by the end with no sorry. The dad yelled at him later that night but I doubt it made a difference. The one English activity we did during the day was make flash cards and I let them draw on cards to help them remember and Nico didn't want to do it so he left the room and whined and cried all day. It was terrible and I was so happy when the dad came home so I could just go to sleep and not talk to anyone until Monday. I don't know what I'm going to do when they don't have school and it is just us all day everyday. I think I'll go crazy.
The parenting style is very different here so it's hard to punish the children or even get through to the parents my issues. It is so frustrating.
I feel like I know how to deal with kids pretty well but these ones are just taking all my energy up and I'm exhausted all the time.

I did find out there is a tagliatellas here which was my favorite Italian restaurant in SanSe so I am so excited to find it and go! Things like that and sightseeing are what keeps me going!!
Gloomy days for the past weekend and today is no different. The sky is permanently cloudy it feels like! No rain yet!
Here's hoping this week is better than the last!
Happy Monday!

Taryn