This week, Kylen and I are on our own. Zachary is visiting relatives and Dustin is out bringing home the bacon. However, the world does not strictly revolve around Kylen and I needed to take care of some business...on the phone. Now I can pay bills, send emails, write thank yous and make cookies all while World War III is happening in my very own living room, but talking on the phone is a whole other ball game.
Previous experience has taught me that no matter how many times you say that you are going to be making a very IMPORTANT phone call and need the boys on their best behavior with no fighting, arguing, yelling, hitting and most importantly NO INTERRUPTING, it doesn't fail that all of the above will happen within the first 30 seconds of the said important phone call. I have also learned that bribery doesn't work either and because Zachary is gone I don't dare send Kylen outside by himself for fear that he may try and make a break for it.
So today, I decided to be 3 steps ahead of the game. I told Kylen that he needed to take a shower before we left and didn't even mention that I was going to be on the phone. We started the shower, got his special soap out (I figured an empty bottle of body wash was worth the five minutes of quiet) and he embarked on his shower time. Now my boys will spend hours in the tub or shower so I really thought I had a fool proof plan.
Oh, how wrong I was. While I was making my important phone calls interruption free, Kylen had managed to get the shower head down and was turning our bathroom into a water park. That's right shower curtain open with a rain storm pouring down my walls onto the floor. By the time, I finished my first phone call the entire bathroom floor had an inch of standing water on it.
As Kylen sat in time out while I mopped up the bathroom, I realized how much I miss nap times. I think all future important phone calls will have to wait until they both leave to go to school, this is the best option for both my sanity and their safety.
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