The following list are things that happen when I try to do anything else besides watch my children, including but not limited to, doing laundry, trying to prepare and cook meals, trying to clean our house, doing the dishes, unloading the dishwasher, etc. (you get the point)
1. My children fight. Caroline screams at the top of her lungs.
2. Liam chases Caroline around the house pretending to be a monster. Which at first she will think is funny and then will decide she is terrified and begin to scream.
3. Caroline will decide she doesn't want to be downstairs anymore and go upstairs. This is really not a problem UNTIL Liam decides she shouldn't be upstairs all by herself and will go after her and drag her back downstairs again. Caroline screams at the top of her lungs.
4. Caroline climbs on top of our dining room table.
5. Caroline finds a pen, marker or crayon on the table and decides she wants to start coloring. She really doesn't care that there is no paper near her, she will happily color any solid surface.
6. Liam does puzzles by himself. (yay!) Caroline wants to "do puzzles" also. Caroline takes apart the puzzle that Liam is trying to put together. Fighting begins.
7. Caroline finds a piece of chalk and happily colors any solid surface. Including our stereo speakers.
8. Caroline finds the chalkboard eraser. Caroline wants to help clean up and then proceeds to "erase" on our furniture, smearing chalk dust all over said furniture.
9. Caroline announces she is pooping. Then says potty. After I ask her if she wants to sit on the potty to poop she says no. After a couple of minutes I will find her sitting on the potty with the seat down saying she is pooping on the potty.
10. Liam finds his sleeping bag and pulls it out of the carrying backpack. He will then get inside of said sleeping bag and decide to use it to slide down our flight of stairs.
Enough said. How come some days I just feel like my world is completely chaotic. I am trying so hard to pick up the house, do the laundry, cook dinner and make sure that the chalk, eraser, pens, crayons are also picked up and put away but I never seem to do enough. Caroline always seems to find that one crayon that I missed. Liam is always trying to break an arm or leg by performing daredevil stunts. Everyone says these days go by so fast. Don't wish them away. I wish I could go back when my kids were your childrens ages. I think the next time I hear that I will invite that person over to babysit for an entire day. We'll see what they say when I return after 8 hours with my children. I'm guessing they will be just as exhausted as I always feel.
Totally agree!
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