Divine Retribution

I have spent the morning chasing Hannah and grabbing markers out of her hands. Then to follow behind with one of those Magic Erasers to scrub my wall. I'm at a loss with Hannah. She's a stubborn little stinker or "snot" as my husband prefers. KalieAnn has always been a fairly easy stinker. She'd do something wrong, I'd spank her or put her intime out and she didn't do it again. Hannah one day went into the neighbors yard. here's what happened:
"Hannah!" (She turns and looks at me)
"Hannah come back in our yard!"
"No!"
"Hannah ifyou don't come back inour yard I will spank you!" (She turns ...lifts up her shirt and sticks her butt at me!)
Lately I have been trying the time out method because the girls have come to the idea that if they think they are doing something wrong they can hit each other. Spanking has currently gone out the door. I don't want my kids to think its okay to hit someone if they are in the wrong. I figure best way to stop that is to not spank them...all in all spanking is hitting right? SoI have been putting them on the stairs...something neither of them like. I tell you what..the days I can get something done around this house is when Hannah spends half the day in time out and the other half down for her nap. Why half the day in time out? Here's why:
Hannah loves to get into my stuff...tearing up knitting patterns, getting into stamp pads, and markers all over the walls. So I put her time out. A couple minutes go by...
"Hannah you ready tobe a good girl?"
"Uh Huh"
"You going to stay out of mommy's stuff?"
"No!"
"Then stay there a little while longer"
A couple more minutes go by...
"You goingto bea good girl and stay out of mommy's stuff?"
"No!"
"Fine stay there a little while longer"
A couple more mintues go by and I finally get a "Uh huh." I feel maybe I've been successful and she gets up and empties out the kitchen cabinet..my first words "Ughh!! Girl!" Back in time out she goes...and she'll keep this up. So far i think its starting to work except today we're right back into the routine. I'll call my mom and she calls it my Devine Retribution. Apperantly I wasa little Hellion...oh well. She keeps reminding me that being stubborn can be a good thing if pointed in the right direction. So I'm trying to point her in the right direction. I've just been having continous days of feeling like I want to bang my head against the wall. I am going to be spending today scrubbing the walls in their room to try and get the marker off and washing their sheet to get marker out of them. Then I will do my best to chase down every marker and crayon in this house and put them in a drawer in my room or hide them somewhere. I feel like I am loosing weight chasing her around. My pants are starting toget loose. So my daughter is not always goodfor a laugh and moments of wanting to bang myheadon the wall...shes good for helping me loose weight and keeping me busy.
My Husbands got one of his boss' back at work that is a complete jerk. This time around Mitchell is the second in command or "A Gunner" in their office. This boss is the kind of guy that doesn't do his work...he has someone else AKA my husband for him. So he's back to working the long hours. He hasn't been home before eight or even say nine this week. Now this guy is taking leave aka vacation because the work is getting to hard for him! What work? My husbands doing it all! Second must be nice to be able to just leave when things get rough! I'll be soo happy when we leave this place. Anywhoo...I've got to get off to cleaning and making lunch.