After a week at home with two toddlers I have a new respect for the stay at home mom (SAHM).  They somehow deal with multiple children constantly fighting with each other, and these wondrous mothers manage to not go insane.  It just blows my mind how deft they are at this!  They must have a special gene that allows them to not let it all get to them…or they use earplugs constantly.  Maybe both.

Last week I took vacation time to have a chance to bond with my cute little “angels”.  It turned out to be more stressful than if I would have been working all week.  I had a whole list of things that I wanted to get done…and what did I get done off of my list?  One thing…on Friday night when I just completely ignored my children since I HAD TO GET IT DONE. 

Kailan’s new attitude of “you can’t make me sleep” and “I’m not listening to you” and “let’s annoy Mommy all the time”, got old REAL quick.  Then, there was my little precious morsel, Anya, who took the opportunity of spending so much time with her brother to figure out just what buttons to push to annoy him.  She found that taking his toys was a sure way to get him upset.  He would look away from them for a second, and it afforded her the perfect opportunity to abscond with his toys.  He would then start screaming, “MINE!” at the top of his lungs.  You should have seen the gleam in her eyes when she achieved this…such a sense of accomplishment! 😈  She did this often.  Pretty much anytime they were both awake at the same time.  That was pretty much all day long.

I am glad that at least one of them napped, since it was quiet for a few hours and allowed me to de-frazz my frazzled nerves.  I was then able to make it until bedtime without exploding from frustration.  I may have raised my voice a few times in there, though. 😕

Now it’s Brian’s turn this week.  God help him. 😯