Had to have a little "Come to Jesus" talk with the girls tonight . . .

I am so very very sick of listening to them fight, call each other names, yell, scream, and just plain treat one another badly.

I am also sick of them slacking off and not doing what they are suppose to do. I mean I know they are kids, and they won't listen, but there are some things I expect from them that they are just not giving me.

Before I went back to work, I sat down with the girls (weeks and weeks before) and told them what the plan was going to be. They would get home from school around 2:20pm. They were to go home, wash hands, eat snack, and get their homework out. They were not allowed to go play (or have others play) until 3:30. One hour, one hour is all I asked of them. Get your stuff done. Clean the cat box, do your piano, then at 3:30 (only 1 hr) you would be done and you can go play.

While I was home, this worked out fine. The first few weeks that I went to work, it was going pretty well . . .  but now . . .  not so much.

I was so sick of coming home at 5-530 and asking the kids if they did their homework only to hear "oh YEAH . . .  I forgot about it" UUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHH

To ask them if they have any homework on the weekend only on tuesday to get an email from their teacher saying they haven't turned in this much needed assignment  . .. .

I know this is normal in almost every house that has kids, but I really don't think I am asking too much.

I had to talk to them all on the couch and explain the rolls of big, middle, little, sisters and where they fall into that.
I went on for about an hour saying things like "this is not the way i raised you" "Put others first. Someone else is always having a worse thing happen to them. Do what you can to help them! If that is a meal, a coffee out once a week, whatever they need  . . . it's not always about you . . .

I think I talked myself into a circle, and not sure if it helped one little bit :(