Yep, those words actually came out of my mouth.\u00a0 Why two girls with 5 Barbie dolls and 10 pairs of Barbie shoes have to argue about the same\u00a0Rapunzel\u00a0doll and the same pair of hot pink ankle boots is beyond me.\u00a0 \u201cFigure it out.\u201d\u00a0 Ensue arguing, screaming, crying.<\/p>\n
I call for Sugarplum to come into the room where I am securely piled under a stack of clean clothes that need to be folded and put away.\u00a0 Continue arguing, screaming, crying.<\/p>\n
I yell for Sugarplum to come see me.\u00a0 Yes, I yell.\u00a0 I won\u2019t lie, I\u2019m a yeller.\u00a0 Not because I\u2019m angry but because I want to be sure my children (who have sweet little voices and screams octaves above my own) can hear me. \u00a0Also because I have a 4 year-old whose listening skills closely resemble that of my 92 year-old grandmother: she can only hear you if you get her attention and she is looking directly at you. \u00a0And\u00a0because my nearly 6-month pregnant body that is securely planted on the floor is not as agile as it once was.<\/p>\n
Girls continue to argue, scream and yell.\u00a0 I pull my aching body off the ground and try to nimbly step over the piles of neatly folded t-shirts and shorts (of course knocking over a few laundry towers in the process) and head to the adjacent play room.\u00a0 I take the hot pink ankle boots from Sugarplum and return them to Honeybun\u00a0explaining \u201cI just helped Honeybun\u00a0put those shoes on\u00a0Rapunzel, she had them first.\u00a0 Would you like this OTHER pair of hot pink ankle boots?\u201d\u00a0 Sugarplum swats my hand, \u201cNo!\u00a0 I want the weh-woe shoes.\u201d\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 I help her put the yellow shoes on the new Barbie she got for Christmas.<\/p>\n
It turns out I am a referee and I\u2019ll have to wait a few more months (or years) until I can step back to the sidelines and join the cheering squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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