So how did you go Mummies? Was there baking and park visits and calm voices and logging off BB? Hope you all had great days.

Us? Unmitigated FAIL. Poor DD smacked her face on the side of the pool at her swimming lesson and remained teary and volatile for the remainder of the day - guessing she had a nasty headache or at least a sore nose. I tried being fun chatty Mummy in the car and was met with a scowl and a repeated 'music on please' until I realised that fun and engaging were not what she was after at that moment!
Lol.. this made me smile. Don't get me wrong.. I totally understand what you mean, it's just funny (as in ironic) that so often our resolve to do things better and differently are met with a totally different reality than the one we thought we'd get! After a crazy first year with DD where I was so strung out I was often in cranky Mummy/ cranky wife mode, I found a lifeline in a book called 'Buddhism for Mothers' by Sarah Napthali. Among it's gems I've been really trying to live the question 'what does this moment require of me?' which helps when DD wants me to put the funny chicken hat on for the millionth time or sing the wheels of the bus while I'd rather be cooking dinner or checking BB!

This is a beautiful thread Santosha, thanks for starting it. My resolve for today is to really spend time playing with DD instead of setting up distractions for her to play with herself. We're going to play the piano and read some stories (it's pouring outside here and she already has the sniffles) and we're going to make a cubby house! Can't wait until she wakes up.