I think I'm losing it.....

It is bank holiday weekend in Ireland at the moment so of course it is raining! The weather hasn't helped to improve my mood. I think I must have woken on the wrong side of the bed this morning because I have spent most of the day snapping at the boys for doing things that wouldn't normally bother me.

The start of the day was ok. The plan was that every day this weekend I would go straight up to the house and finish painting the downstairs windows and boxes. I was there at 8.30am giving a final coat on all the relevant windows that needed them. Great....! It is such a relief to have them done at last. The next step of the plan was that Daithi would go and start putting in the glass which we had delivered a couple of months back. So far so good except that Daithi came back after about 20 minutes with an ashen face.... The double glazed units are the wrong size! We never even thought of checking the size of them when they arrived. We had a problem with the colour of the spacer inside the unit and we contacted the manufacturer about that but never dreamed that the size would be wrong (the depth is ~4mm out which means the window would have a very sunken look to it when the beading holding the glass in is set in place). Daithi made contact with the supplier and will speak to them again on Tuesday to get them remade. We could possibly work with the panes we have but it would mean remaking the beading - all that fiddly painting started my bad mood off. If it was our fault then we would have to live with it but we checked all the correspondence and the size we asked for is not the size we got so in my eyes we get replacements! It just means another delay and I am now giving up hope of being in the house by Christmas.

After that I have been a bear with a sore head most of the day and the boys have been on the receiving end I am sorry to say. At least we all had a bit of a break from my mood at a birthday party in Perks, Youghal. The aim is to have an early night tonight and wake refreshed and re-energised and in a much better mood.