Well, to your rooms is actually what I said. They were told no playing just reading is all they could do. Since two boys share a room one was left in the family room while the other was in his room. J stayed in the living room with me. I must say that was the quietest hour I've had in a long time. Even during the night there's the occasional sleep talker, sleep walker, or sleep crier (as we experienced last night).
We started off the day at Costco. And so it begins, J is in the cart, D is holding on to one side, Mom Jr. on the other, and Jr. himself is boppin' around behind us or next to us. The aisles in that warehouse are pretty wide (yes so are their shopping carts) yet I still have to tell them move over when someone else is coming our way. I feel like we're our own crowd trying to get through there. Then there's the testers, oh, do my kids live for the testers. They rush up there, again I have to tell them wait a minute. The poor servers are saying their little spill about the product they are serving as they are putting them out and here comes my little crowd that glide right up there, each taking one, saying thank you and away they go as the poor server who now has an empty tray and still isn't done saying what he or she started. They look up and some will smile or will just look at me. I just say "Thank you".
So, on we go and if there is nothing in their hands from tasting they are more than eager to help get whatever I need. I am trying to compare prices of certain things and may ask Jr. to tell me the cost and amount of an item while I look at another. If it takes him more than a few seconds to figure out the price or amount Mom Jr. is already on her way over there to find it out herself. Jr. then gets flustered as he's trying to see it knowing she's approaching him quickly. I then have to tell her "I asked Jr!". D is right next to me asking "can I bring it to you?" I still haven't figured out which one I wanted.
Okay, that's it I tell them from now on I will call you each by name when I want you to get me a specific item, no asking, no grabbing, no bum rushing anyone else who can't figure out what they're looking for.
Well, the rest of the time went fairly smooth, we made it out of there without anymore conflicts...Parking lot, now there's another story, what is it with kids who just bug each other just to do it?!?! Really I think it's their secret mission to behave that way just to drive us parents crazy enough that we can only stand to make it out to one store because we're just too scared to even dare risk our sanity by stopping anywhere else other than home.
You know you can just see their little smiles as they see you turn the corner to your home street.
Again they are more than willing to help bring stuff in. It doesn't matter what it is, the bigger the bag or box they rush to grab it before the other can get it. I turn around to see "D" carrying in a box of 24 glass filled bottles into the house!!!! Jr. tells him "Mom said not to carry that!!". So, we're done, they have lunch, and proceed to go out back to play. I hear Jr. almost in tears because the two other ones are ganging up on him when earlier D was the sad one because the other two were doing the same to him. I've noticed Mom Jr. is the little queen in their world if she chooses to be nice with Jr. and not D Jr. will follow her lead as the same thing would happen if it was D she was being nice to Jr. would be left out.
Well, I had enough of that, and that's where "Go to your rooms!" came into play. Aaahhh, the sound of peace within the house, yes, things aren't picked up, the kitchen isn't completely clean, I could vacuum but wait! it's quiet! why disturb the silence with such noise. It was well worth it for the hour of silence (well except for J who can't read yet and wasn't about to fall asleep so he decided to play which I can totally space out hearing one little guy play by himself).
I let them come out and they are pretty mellow right now but I'm sure the clock is just ticking on that..tick, tick, tick....
Just a Mom who loves those silent corners (I mean bedrooms)!!!!
