Here we go!!!!

Okay all, I have never done this and will probably sound like the crazy woman that I am but, here goes!

Last night I was having the "children" discussion with my husband Ronny,and told him that I was just tired of being an adult. He laughed and said "I think it's a little late for that!" Realize that I don't want to be an adult BUT in going back to my "no responsibility days" I would have all of the knowledge that I have now!!! I will go backwards in time just a few hours so that you can understand why I need to not be an adult anymore.......................................
In the past 6 months or so I have redone both of my older children's rooms and put in 2 or 3 days of labor in each one. I have sat down with them both and said, "See how awesome your room looks and if you would only take a few minutes to put away things that you get out, it will continue to look this way and I will feel like you appreciate all the effort I put in to make your rooms so cool." I know that you all are going " Oh thank the good Lord that I am not the ONLY one who has had that conversation 15 times in that last month! We have also had the discussion about the germy, disgustedness of a bathroom that is covered in toothpaste, spit and you know with boys there are urine drops about. Well, I went upstairs and that entire level of my house is destroyed. So I pushed forward into the angry, snotty, tearful domain of teen and pre-teen and started to have the room cleaning "discussion" again, when Dad decides to get involved. Well, at the end of the "discussion", the only punishment that was given was that their rooms were supposed to be "reasonably" clean and that the bathroom was to be spotless and they couldn't use it for a week. Cooper, the 9 year old, was shaking his head and agreeing with everything and Jordyn, the 14 year old, is standing with her lips pursed and tears running from the eyes and nose. Also by this time in the "discussion" our 3 year old Riley is screaming from the bottom of the stairs, "Can I come up. What are you doing? Will you play in my room?" to which we answer, "No, we'll be down in a minute. Talking to your brother and sister. JUST A MINUTE!" Please tell me that someone else's life is just a crazy as mine and that we would get more accomplished if we just simply had conversations with one of the dogs or even better, the wall!
Well, thankfully, today is a new day.....with a new set of traumas! I know that if I truly had to have the same discussions every day I would absolutely be insane. So instead of room discussions, I sure that the rest of today will involve the new discussions of "Don't antagonize your brother, Cooper." "Riley, don't hit your brother or pick up the cat by the tail." and my favorite of all " Jordyn, get off of the cell phone before it grows into a permanent attachment on your person!" Please pray for me and in the meantime I will be remembering life when I could leave a mess in my room, in the bathroom and I swung the cat by the tail.