My favorite lines I use when I am at the end of the rope have to do with a sincere sense of humor and a desire to put one of my grown children over my knee. The one line that I use the most is "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it." My daughter now uses that one on her two year old. Then there is this one "Calgon take me away." Usually that means that Mom is not going to anwser the phone, go in the bath room, lock the door and pour about half a bottle of bubbles in the bath and just relax in the tub for about an hour or until the next kid comes to the door with the latest crisis.
The nest seems to get empty at times and then one flies right back in. "Not the Momma," gets repeated over and over. Sometimes I think that my kids are deaf because they keep asking me to babysit. My husband swares that it's my fault because I have a problem with saying no. For example I talked to my daughter at work this morning and she told me that she just finished a 16 hour shift at work that included an all nighter and she had no one to watch her son today while she slept. I wanted with all my might to say no, but then this pride over her working made me say, ok.
So now my grandson is destroying my living room and wearing out his PawPaw, while I am sitting here finally getting a chance to write this weeks article. He found the toys that I had hidden in the two boxes in my new office that isn't completed yet because I have been busy with the kids this week. So he has been sneaking out one toy at a time all day until the living room is nothing but wall to wall toys.
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