I quit

I would just like to say that for the remainder of this day I will no longer be responding to "Mommy." I quit. I decided this as Dean sat on the potty earlier calling my name over and over and over and over and over and over again. I was standing in there the whole time listening and responding to him. I finally, very politely, asked, "Would you please stop talking to me?" I know I am a bad mom but if you other moms reading this have never actually asked your child such a question I am confident that you have at least thought it. While I am sure my resignation will not last more than about 10 minutes if even that long before I walk away from the computer and continue being "Mommy" as if nothing ever happened, these brief moments have been nice.

And while I am at it, I established a new rule about 15 minutes ago - He who tattle tales is the one who gets the spanking. So far it is working out nicely; it is amazing how quickly they begin to work out their petty differences when they know complaining to me will get them nowhere fast.

As I sign off for now and head back to the children, let me add one last thing...Please spare me the "you should be thankful you have healthy, active, etc children" speech. I am very thankful for my children and I do love them to pieces and really would not want to change them one bit - other than the moments of disobedience - but that does not mean that I would not love 10 minutes of quiet at an unexpected time during the day that did not result in finding some sort of huge mess like food all over the floor or a pile of toilet paper as high as the child or an important piece of paper scribbled all over (just to name a few of the incidents from this week)!