Our Apartment is a Mess and our Child is Not Happy

The whole burb thing happened sort of suddenly. In fact, we had just ordered new cabinets and appliances for our kitchen. I wanted to cancel everything and pay cancellation fees, but Paulo didn't want to. So we have an accepted offer with a closing in August and can't put our apartment on the market until the end of July. Not a great time to sell.

This morning I plugged in the toaster oven to make fish sticks for our daughter's lunch. This wouldn't have been such a problem except that the light in her room had to be on for the toaster oven to work and she was still sleeping.

Needless to say she was not a happy camper when she woke up. For the first time she was hitting and pushing me away. She went on a 30min crying fit and didn't want to be touched. I'm not sure what happened. She was the model child until this morning.

When I brought her to school I asked if something happened yesterday. They said she had a great day and she must be going through an early, independant two's thing (she's almost 21 months.) We know she's intellectually advanced for her age. The following things have happened
-she got the hitting and pushing thing from one of the children at school. I would have asked that child to leave months ago.
-her regular teacher is on vacation
-the substitute teacher uses the TV
-the apartment is a mess

It's her last week at that school. Hopefully our beach house construction will be complete by Friday so we can get out of our messy apartment into our messy beach house.