Monday, September 21, 2009

Their Mother is Out of Control!

So, I'm doing the single mommy thing. It's been super fun. I'm exhausted. Ha ha. My children are awesome and they are holding up very well with the whole separation thing. I have to give kudos to Doug and I because I think we've tried to keep things as normal as possible. However, apparently since Dad has been gone, Mommy has taken over the household and I've begun to torture everyone. Here is a list of things are my children consider to be torturous:

Taking baths
Cleaning rooms
Picking up anything and putting it away
Eating only one snack after school
Waiting till after dinner to play Wii
Cutting finger nails
Putting laundry away
Wearing socks with shoes
Brushing teeth
Wearing clothing that matches
Feeding and/or taking care of their pets
Doing homework
Drinking water instead of Koolaid or soda

I have been informed I am out of control. During a bedroom inspection with Carter on Saturday, I informed him that shoving everything into his closet was not how we clean rooms in our house and I told him he needed to clean his closet. After flopping around on his floor for awhile and screaming at the top of his lungs, he finally calmed down enough to ask me for my phone. I asked why he needed it, assuming he was going to call his dad. He said no, he was going to call 911 because I was the meanest mom in the world. Ethan informed me on the way home from church as I was instructing everyone what to do with their church clothes when they changed that I was out of control because I was insisting on keeping everything like it was Spring Cleaning day or something like that. Argh!

Do they still sell Calgon?

6 comments:

Nancy Mackey said...

so funny! yes you are definately out of their control!

Teri said...

Calgon......take us ALL away!!! I need tips from you. By the looks of my house, I'm way to easy on my kids!
When are we running away?

Bentz Family said...

I think your wonderful!

Neika Boulter said...

Where's doug at? casey's been in Houston for almost 2 weeks and the single mom thing is HARD!! I hear ya, but someone has to enforce the rules, right?

Krista said...

I don't think that I read this post right the first time... You and Doug 'separated'? I hope your doing okay. I'm thinking of you!

Rebecca said...

Ummm. Did I miss a memo? Are you okay?