I never thought i'll be this mum!

AJ stop that!
AJ climb down from that chair!
Stop chewing that wire!
For God's sake, go to your room!

Mehn! I scream and i scream.

I remember those days, before i got married. When i go to church and see women with kids that just won't sit still, just wont behave well, i secretly call the women out - in my mind. I say to myself "these women need a lesson or two in training kids. How on earth can someone's child be this unruly? She doesn't know what she is doing".

But see me now!
I  go to church these days and when my kids start, i just look helplessly around wondering who among these women throwing side glances at me, is thinking what i used to think about women with unruly kids. hmmm. God help mothers all over. And bless us too! because 'e no jus easy at all at all'.

I LOVE my kids to bits! To the moon and back and to the moon, but they have turned me to a psycho!
I have realized that kids actually are aware of what they are doing. They know when they are doing something wrong. They know when they are pulling your chord. But they just want to see if you will let it slide. And if you do, they get bolder and try something else.
Trust me now, i don't let anything slide ooo. I give it to them immediately, so they don't think its a joke.
How else do you justify a child looking at you with the corner of his eyes while he chews on an extension cord and when you look in his direction, he smiles in a sheepish manner, chews the cord some more and then ask you "mummy, is this wire?" No, its biscuit! "My friend, before i open my eyes, you have dropped that wire and vamoozed from there!"

And when you smack them for doing something wrong, they rarely cry. Beat them for something not so bad and hear them wail!

They just push your buttons.

I look at the clock, i dread school closing time. Once they step into the house and fling down their bags, it starts! Don't! Stop! Watch it! Don't step on your baby brother! Don't you chew his ear again!

I buy paracetamol in packets now.
Someone said "don't take paracetamol for every headache. rest and the headache will pass". That person sure doesn't have kids yet!

Looking back at how i thought raising kids will go, how i will just quietly say 'come away from there' and my kids will say 'yes mum' and actually come away. Looking back at all the fantasies i had, and looking at what i am faced with today, I NEVER THOUGHT I WILL BE THIS MUM!