by Able Brooke

Created on: January 04, 2007   Last Updated: April 25, 2007

The easy part of becoming a parent is wondering how they will go to college or how you will possibly afford the load of stuff you need just for a tiny two foot little human. Or possibly what will they be when they grow up!

Well I am a mommy of four beautiful children.....the hardest part by far is trying to stay in one piece long enough to get to see them go to college. Or perhaps how they will react when mommy pulls all her hair out in the middle of the mall. It is the question of sane or insane not so much Toys R Us or the goodwill store to get toys. The kids need mommy to stay in one piece....or else who is going to find their other shoe when you only ever can locate the one. Or who else is going to make breakfast before you can even open both eyes when you are still in bed. Isn't it great when the group of kids want to do Mortal Combat in the backseat when you are in traffic and the two littlest ones have to go to the bathroom? Or maybe when they bring cooties home from school and then you know that the other three kids will get it and you will get it and daddy then gets it. Its like an assembly line!

So what do you do to keep from going insane. When your child is talking and talking and talking in the car....and then they ask you right mommy? JUST SAY YES...THATS GOOD...OR REALLY! That goes really far in trying to stay sane. You have no clue what they have been talking about...and surly you don't want them to say the whole 30 minutes of blah blah over again. So you just bypass all that and say what I have taught you. Then it's amazing..your done.

Get a very large quantity of Rubbermade containers, don't think that you can possibly keep up with the cleaning. So you take the rubbermade containers and put one in each room. Cleaning becomes super easy when you take all their junk from all the rooms that they decided to drop-and-run and throw into the boxes. Also make sure that before company comes to visit double check that there isn't any undies all over in the bathroom.

Also if you are having to go shopping with the kids (very dumb idea but we gotta do what we have to do) then bring a bag of m&m's and every 5 minutes that they are good then they get five. It works really well, as well as perhaps making it easy on yourself and getting them mcdonalds for lunch right before you get to the store. That way they can sit in the cart, very quietly and eat the lunch as you get a quick shopping done. Or the bribe technique; candy or toys if they are good at the doctors

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