Rant….

Okay, I’m cranky and I don’t EVER do this but I’m going to.  I’m just going to vent for a moment so that all you other moms out there who think I’m perfect (HAHAHAHA) can see otherwise.

My kids are making me CRAZY!! Who knew that a silly gate has been the key to my fragile sanity all these years.  I could go about my business knowing that my kids were at least safe from the world (if not each other) in the living room.  BUT for whatever reason my Ella has suddenly lost her mind the last few days and she’s taking Sylvie on her mom maddening adventure.  She opens that gate every 2 minutes and they both explode out of the living room…one heads upstairs at break neck speed to go play in the boys room, change her clothes for the 15th time, or go dump my makeup on the floor and eat it.  The 2nd either runs into the pantry and starts pulling things down, locks herself in the bathroom where she flushes an entire roll of toilet paper or plays in the sink, OR she heads right for the side door and out into the yard.  So I’m yelling and trying to catch ONE of them while the other is causing major mayhem and I finally catch one after a good struggle (because they always put up a fight even as they’re yelling “Sorry Mommy”) and just as I get them put back in their Safe Room and head to repeat the craziness catching the next, the first one is OUT AGAIN!!  And the worst part?….This is NO EXAGERATION!!  They are all over the place.  And when they’re NOT out of the living room??  They’re eating diaper cream, pulling out HUGE chunks of each others hair, biting, dumping out their milk and painting with it, or EATING the leaves off our fake trees!!  Now, maybe I could side track them with lunch or something but that means an hour of trying to get two girls to STAY in their seats and not throw their food or spit it out onto the floor.  Keeping them from getting & pouring their own drinks, and from pulling all the silverware out of the drawer.  Yes, I’m sitting in the same room with them at the table and I feel like I’m in a 3 ring circus!!

I know, I know….they’re little, this too shall pass, their good girls, it’s just a hard day, they need a nap (I need a nap), this is all part of being a parent, someday I’ll look back on this and laugh, go outside and count to ten, find some YOU time, go take a bubble bath, take them to the park and let them run, go outside and have a good SCREAM…..I know all that stuff….just right now, I want some sanity….and a GATE THAT WORKS!!!………….I’m not bitter. 

Okay….1 twist tie, 1 Tinkerbell movie,  and 1 deliciously yummy chocolate bar later…….I feel much better.  I take it all back.

P.S. For when Ella and Sylvie read this later in life……I love you….but sometimes you make me crazy…….You make me crazy….but I LOVE YOU.  (And I hope you have kids that make you just as crazy so I can laugh when you call me and give you all the same advice that you won’t care about.)