Just the other morning I was taking a shower, in my own bathroom, and Madison walks in. I asked her what she was doing and she said, "going to the bathroom". Fine, ok, she is allowed to go to the bathroom. She didn't just pee though.
So I asked her, "you couldn't wait 10 more minutes to take care of that business or at least gone into the other bathroom?"
She answered No, of course.
Then child number 2, Payton came into the bathroom. Madison is also still in there, doing her business. Then Reagan came in. All of a sudden as I am trying to wash up they all start trying to talk to me at once.
"Mom can I do this?"
"Mom Rae did that"
"Mom, Mom,MOMMMM!!!"
I tried to ignore them as long as I could, but they knew I was in there. It's like they sniff me out. I repeated, I don't know how many times that I couldn't hear them. Finally I had to YELL,
"SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU"
And so they did. At that point I said I can't understand when you all talk at once, just go one at a time. I don't think they understood what that meant so they all started yelling at once.
I then yelled,
"All of you get out, just get out, I am in the shower and I want you to GET OUT!!!
Go ask your father."
Can't I have an privacy? No, the answer to that is no. There is no privacy in my bedroom or the bathroom or even the shower. Sorry Moms you get no privacy anywhere.
When I was done showering, I wrapped the towel around me and walked into my bedroom, where my husband was sitting on the bed reading something.
I asked him how long he had been sitting there? He said the whole time that I was in the shower.
"Are you kidding me?
While the girls are in the bathroom yelling and all trying to talk to me at the same time, and all the while I'm yelling back that I can't hear them all and they needed to get out. You were sitting here nice and quiet and didn't think to help me at all? Are you kidding me?"
"I didn't hear anything" he says
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"
You are way to nice to. Seriously. I know I only have one terrorist toddler, but Matt and I have an agreement that when either of us are in the bathroom or shower and the other is not....It becomes one on one defense. The parent that is in the shower or what not is treated like they are in time out. Totally ignored. The other parent does one on one with Easton. It works for my brother, his wife and their 4 kids ages 12-1, so I am hoping it will work for us. OR, you can always pull the "no sex for you" card. You may be missing out also, BUT, maybe he'll let you have more privacy while you are both home alone with the girls.
ReplyDeleteI would love that. Although I don't know that it would work in our house because I would need to "use the bathroom" all the time.
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