Couped Up With The Boys

With a long, incredibly humid, rainy weekend, the boys and I spent most of it inside. For the most part it was okay. We baked cupcakes, played games, rented movies, and invited some friends over. But after two days of being couped up, we all started to get on each other's nerves and act like three-year-olds. I could, in fact, understand it when they started fighting with each other and having little tantrum after spending so much time in the same room togethers. What was unacceptable was when I started acting the same way! So....I did what any respectable Mommy would do. I told the boys I was giving MYSELF a time-out, and they looked at me, stunned, and immediately watched me with silent, saucer eyes, as I put myself in my room for five minutes of silence. And it worked! I think I'll try it more often.