Smarties

That's what they are, kids always find a way to tell us things whether or not we want to hear them. Little tattles here and there can add up on us Moms, so much that by the late afternoon we are overloaded with hearing them and just have had enough! By now the tattles are just any little thing they can possibly complain about one another. "Mom, his feet are on my chair, Mom he keeps looking at me, he's following me around, it's my turn to play the game, I want to watch something else, how come she's eating that,......." AAaaaaaahhhhhh!!!
Now is when I say okay, there is no more tattles for the night! Do not call my name for anymore, the next time it'll be bed time. All of a sudden there is silence (hmm, enjoy the little bit) then you hear (they say it real loud too) YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE TOUCHING MY CHAIR!, YOU HAD YOUR LAST 5 MINUTES ON THE GAME IT'S MY TURN!!, STOP LOOKING AT ME.......
Smarties, see they let you know without actually telling you. When you look in the room that they're in you can see their eyeballs are towards you but their body is towards who they are talking to. So you choose to ignore it because they aren't calling you until their loud voices start to annoy other ones in the room and now they are getting loud because they are now disturbed by the not-exactly-tattling siblings.
Well, we have no choice we have to get up, go in the other room and tell them to quiet down. Uh-oh, you spoke to them first so they start again but they turn it into a story. "Well, we were all just fine, but then he started touching my chair again and he's not suppose to then he started yelling at me to get off the game and to stop looking at him then you came in".
They say it so nice and calm as they wait for a reaction.....
My reaction.......I'm done go tell your Dad. I just walk away, I have officially exhausted all my Mom power for the day it suddenly becomes that time for me to go to my room for the evening, leave the light off, turn on the T.V. sit on my bed and watch anything that is funny, that I don't really have to pay attention to because by now I really don't care to pay much attention to anything.
Smarties......not only did they get to tell you all that they wanted to but they even got you to go to bed!!!!

Just a Mom full of tattles!!