i hate tv!

today was a little bit different then the usual monday at our house.  brian had to work and he typically has mondays off.  so right off the bat the day was thrown off track. i kept thinking it was tuesday all day long, and it drove me crazy.  we did get out in the afternoon to a playground, but the rest of the day was spent at home doing the typical tuesday things.... i cleaned while the kids made a mess behind me :)

towards the end of the evening, i wanted to mop the floors quickly before bath.  i turned the tv on in hopes to occupy them so that i wouldn't have dirty little foot prints on my nice clean floor (honestly, nothing bothers me more then that).

unfortunitly , turning that tv on was the worse possible thing i could have done.  you would think that my children could have been entertained for the mesley 20 minuets it would have taken me to mop!  looking back on it now, i think that maybe i attempted this too close to bed time and they were a little over tired, but who knows.  as soon as the first commercial (some kid klean bubble bath thing) came on they both starting pointing saying i want that, its mine (alivia just said "no, mine!").  about two seconds later there was an all out fight going down on my family room floor!  levi seriously pushed alivia down and starting hitting her!  alivia fought right back and bit his arm... all over a stinking commercial!!!! IT WASN"T ANYONES!!!!!!  why? why? why do they have to make commercials so irresistible to children?  this is seriously something we go through on a daily basis here.... they see something on tv and point it out saying its theirs and how badly  they want it, and wont stop shouting till i stop what i'm doing to come see what it is....   needless to say... levi sat in time out and alivia got hot sauce in the mouth, and my floors are STILL not mopped!