It's time to scream

Phone calls.

That has got to be the most annoying problem of being a stay at home mom. BY FAR.

Who knew that making a friggin phone call could be so difficult!? Not me! Until I had kids at least. No matter their age every child finds the need to harass the parent the most while they are on the phone, this is how my kids feel the need to use my time:

Sitting down reading-silence
Eating my own meal-be slightly annoying
Going to the bathroom-be pretty annoying
Talking on the phone- look out mom! It's a tornado! A tornado! We must scream and run for our lives
Just hung up the phone-sit quietly and play a game

I can be in another room and make a phone call and somehow they know and take that moment to act like maniacs! It never fails! And the more important the phone call the bigger the emergency. Emergency of course meaning that they desperatly needed to cling to my leg and scream at how much they love me and how they are mad at the other sibling.

Almost every phone call I make I am forced to lock my bedroom door and hide in the bathroom. It's great to talk to the insurance company and probably have them thinking I'm on the toilet because that's the only place I could be that makes such an echo. I might as well flush the toilet to confirm what they already assume is happening. How embarrassing!

I look forward to the day where I can make a phone call in silence. Who the heck knows when that day will come but whatever at least I know it will come one day. As long as by then there aren't any dogs or pets or anything else to provide an annoying background sound which lets be honest once the kids are gone you get lonely and need some kind of substitution...