A man was over today to give me a quote on a wood burning stove and to figure out if it is even possible to put the stove in our home.
Peyton was sleeping and the girls were playing outside on the swings.
So when I ask them politely in a mother kind of way to please be good little girls and swing on the swings while mommy talks to the nice man, I should not expect that to be too much to ask...
and when my beautiful children are patiently reminded every minute to stop coming in and telling me details about their swinging experience and asking me to do 10 different things, and interupting me while I am talking to the man, it would be absolutely too much to ask...
and it would positively be too much to ask that they stop crying...and arguing...and taking that particular moment to release all negative energy they have been containing all day.
Yup....Too much to ask.
7 comments:
That sounds so much like our house. Would it be too much to ask that our almost-three-year-old stop beating up on our four-year-old? Apparently it is because every possible method of discipline is failing miserably. Any ideas?
Alana
Oh, I forgot to ask, what did you find out about the wood burning stove? Are you going to be able to put one in?
Alana
That happens at your house too?! I don't understand how the kids can play quietly together for an hour but the minute I get a phone call or someone comes to the door mass chaos ensues and my attention is required immediately.
oh gosh...been there...heard that....totally agree with you! LOL
What, you think you deserve an uninterrupted conversation? ;) At least they weren't running in to tell you that they had let all your new chickens out and they were escaping! If it was my kids, that's what I would expect.
Oh yeah. This kind of thing (patience and forbearance with kids) must be why mothers are so esteemed by mankind. SOMEBODY has to recognize our inner strength!
They do have an uncanny knack for timing, don't they?! Judging from the responses so far, I guess this means our kids are normal!!
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