Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Unpunishables


The boys have been making me absolutely crazy today.

Absolutely, completely crazy.

They are bouncing off the walls, not listening even a tiny bit.

So...I pushed them out the back door, gave them the task of picking up poop, and locked the door behind them.

It was the only way to remotely save my sanity.

As I worked on getting this nightmare of a house cleaned up, they happily played outside the back window.....not picking up poop, but instead taunting me with their good times.

It is so frustrating to dole out a punishment and then have them not really understand that they should be sad about it.

They ended up staying out there for quite awhile as I worked myself into a better mood.  

No poop got picked up, and lessons were not learned, but I got the house cleaned, and all three boys will live to see tomorrow, so we're going to count this day a win...but just barely.