I had this great idea that I was going to start blogging, you know like all these other people are doing now. I did some research and I set up my blog site, I don’t even know if I uploaded the picture right or not because I’m not one of these tech savvy women. I had it all planned out, it was going to look really professional. Yeah right!
So here it is, that great blog I was going to start. I don’t think I have ever really finished anything that I’ve planned to do except maybe a few thousand loads of laundry. Sometimes those even sit long enough that I have to run them through the wash a second time because I got caught up doing something else and forgot about them. Thank god for Downy, that stuff really takes that three day old stinky water smell out of your clothes. Needless to say, this blog is going to be less than professional because I’m just not a professional…I’m a mom.
Speaking of being a mom… at this very moment I feel more like a Jack-elope, you know one of those rabbits with a horn sticking out of it’s head. Yup that would be me at 9pm after I finally got the last kid to bed. After one has screamed because he had to stop playing a computer game. After another kid decided he was now hungry and then decided to start calling his sister four letter words while eating his snack bar. Then the same kid decided he was going to refuse to finish eating the snack bar because he was reprimanded for calling his sister those four letter words that I clearly heard him say even with a mouth full of food. Then another kid decides it’s a great time to start dragging toys out all over the playroom that I spent and hour cleaning earlier this evening. I finally get everyone in their rooms and go to turn out the boys light just to find one of them standing there still dressed and wearing shoes. When I asked why he wasn’t ready for bed, he said that his pj’s were in laundry that I had washed and dried this evening. I said “well, go get them and put them on”. He said “I can’t because now they are too cold”. Are you freaking kidding me? It’s now 20 minutes after I told everyone to get in bed and the kid is telling me that his pj’s are too cold to wear. At that very moment I could almost see my head flying off my shoulders powered by the steam coming out of my ears. I was so irritated that I got the darn pj’s and put them on the heater to warm them up so that the kid who had come up with every excuse and had done everything he could think of could have some nice toasty pj’s to ear to bed. I can’t believe that it has come to this, the extent that I will go to just to get the kid to be quiet and go to bed. I know it sounds absolutely insane and as I sit here, I wonder what would some other kids parent have done. I mean who the heck actually does this crazy stuff? I bet he is laying there in bed in his nice warm pj’s thinking…Mom is a real freaking idiot! He is probably laughing too. Did I care if his pj’s were warm? No! But, I wanted quiet, you know the kind you only get when the kids are asleep. Tomorrow is a new day and I may be up for the fight. I may even decided to soak his pj’s in water and hang them on the clothes line (it’s currently 19 degrees out and not going to be much warmer tomorrow), then let him talk about them being too cold. So did I loose my mind? Maybe, but I won the war because the kids are all in bed sleeping.
Well, I hope those of you that read this have had a good laugh. Welcome to my life, where there is never a dull moment and come visit again as I’m sure I’ll have another seemingly crazy story to tell. To all of the parents out there who are in the same boat, I hope you are able to enjoy those few moments of silence at the end of the day just as I am.
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