2 Kids….are you insane?

Sunday morning we picked up my niece because my sister and her husband were going out of town on their anniversary. We agreed to watch her till whenever they got back, which was tentatively Wednesday evening. She is 5 months younger then Charlotte, so they are a good match to hang out and play.

Of course we pulled Charlotte out of school for the week as a result.

Now Kira and Charlotte are both first borns and only children, and while they are very similar in independence, they are very different in how they react to social situations, each other, arguments, and listening.

My niece is a great child. She listens relatively well, possibly a little more then Charlotte because I am an adult that isn’t her parent, and we had zero crying incidents. She also went to bed on time, nap on time, ate all of her meals, and even though the girls got one 2 minute time out, she did it with dignity and without complaining.

That being said.

TWO KIDS ARE NUTS.

They got up at 6am….played till 9pm. Stopping only for meals. Every room in the house had every item that was in it, now on the floor. Everything. The blankets, the clothing, the tapes (yes, we still have tapes), the DVDs, the books, crayons.

I have never worked so hard in my life picking up items behind them, making them stop and pick up, trying to keep them paying attention long enough to clean up after themselves.

You would tell them something and it ended up in giggling or “OK, mommy/aunt”, and then I would check in 10 minutes and they were already distracted and forgot whatever it was I asked them to do.

I just gave up.

It was like corralling cattle.

My niece left last night and Charlotte is in school this morning and I promise you have a lower back ache, a neck ache, and I took 2 Tylenol to get to bed last night.

All of you that told me two kids are amazing are LIARS.

That’s what you tell yourself so you dont drop one of them off on the side of the road with a sign and $20.

Oh, sure, they play with each other. That part is fab. But its double the laundry, 4 TIMES the picking up and you repeat things atleast 8 times….not 1 extra time, cause you have to take for account that you tell each child once, then a second time, which is 4 times, but then atleast 4 times more, which is 2 for each child, cause they feed off of each other to ignore you.

DH walked into the bathroom on Tuesday night when I was bathing and said “Ill be scheduling my vasectomy next week, right?”

I’m just not cut out for this mom thing.

~Trisha