A "Peace" of Chocolate

Hiding in the bathroom so you can enjoy 5 minutes of kid free time, and maybe some chocolate. Or in my case, a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich.

Raise your hand if you've been there!

I know I'm not the only one, because my friend Alison helped inspire this post with our conversation the other day. I was telling her my experience that day, and she said, "oh yeah! I forgot that I have chocolate in there!"

My experience: As hard as it is to believe, a small house with four daughters is not always prim, proper, and peaceful (snort snort). In fact, sometimes it takes drastic measures to find any peace at all.
Thursday was just such a day.

 I had not had a 5 minute break where someone wasn't asking (by asking I mean whining "mooooOOOooom"!) for food or drink.

Myka and Danica were being particularly stubborn at their new game of "fight over the doll", where Danica steals the doll, toddles away as fast as she can...just to have Myka catch up to her in two steps, steal the doll while yelling "NO DANICA!", and having Danica fall to the floor screaming. It's precious.

Oh, and Addison's always bored. Always. So she's always asking what she can do next, even if it's been 3.5 minutes since she asked last. I've started giving her chores to do...we'll see what the next couple weeks brings :)

And with all these interruptions, I had fallen very behind on keeping the house tidy. I by no means have a superbly clean home, but there is a baseline of clean that I like to stick close too, and if it gets too far away from that, I feel like I've lost all control and it tends to send me into a downward spiral of stress.

By 4 pm I was done. So, being the cool headed mom that I am, I promptly grabbed a skinny cow ice cream sandwich from the freezer, hid it under my shirt, and called to Addison "I have to use the bathroom, can you keep an eye on Danica?"

Now, our bathroom door is broken, and doesn't latch closed properly, so to keep the kids out, I sat on the bathroom floor with my back against the door. I wasn't planning on being long, but 9 times out of 10 I can't even take a 30 second pee break without a kid barging in.

25 seconds into my ice cream, Tegan pushes on the door. "Mom! what are you doing? Why won't the door open?"
"I'm holding it closed Tegan, please give me a couple minutes."
"But mom, how are you peeing and holding the door closed at the same time?"

I giggled as I polished off the last bite and licked the leftover cookie off my fingers. Even though I was interrupted, at least I didn't have to share my ice cream! Muahaha

What's your experience with trying to find a few minutes of peace from the craziness of the day? Do you have a favourite hiding spot? Do you have a secret stash of junk food? You can tell me...I can keep a secret from your kids :D

I'll leave you with this gem. To all my mom followers...you're doing great :)

Source: babyrabies.com via Jade on Pinterest