Child induced writers block.

Do you know what Child Induced Writers Block is?  It is when you sit down to start on your blog and the very second your hind end meets the chair and fingers touch the keys so that your creativeness can be emitted one of your children scream, cry, holler MOOOOM, or scream I have to go potty - which essentially means Mommy hurry I have waited too long.  So first the scream, it seems inevitable that when I have something  I either want to do or have to do my children start to fight, argue, bicker or just plain will not get along.  Either that or it is when I have first noticed them fighting because now I am concentrating and can no longer just block out the loud noises.  At that point in order to try to stay on task usually I end up yelling some empty threat to them as in if you don't stop I will take a way all the toys.. Yeah, like that is ever going to happen.  But it usually calms down a situation for a few minutes anyway.  Then comes the cry - this is typically because now the kids have managed to keep the screaming down but are now instead engaging in some sort of physical contact either for fun aka wrestling or because someone is mad aka punching and someone is now hurt.  Now I am no longer able to just yell idol threats I have to get up, visually inspect them to make sure there is no blood or broken bones and of course try to console whoever is crying.  I have figured out that if I now divert their attention to a quiet activity to allow me to finish my task at hand I have another approximately three and a half minutes before the "MOOOOOM" is hollered from that said quiet activity.  Back to that location to see what is now going on.  Typically so and so is not sharing the crayons, playdoh, paint, or has changed the channel and it is not agreed upon.  Now comes the you have to share, be kind and treat each other nicely conversation which I think takes place daily!   This is followed with at least one child all of a sudden taking a huge interest in what I am doing, standing directly behind me and asking why are you doing that or what are you doing?  I can usually deflect the questions with ease like wonder woman with her bracelets of submission.  Believe it or not it is very distracting and soon I have found that I am ready to just stop what I am doing and go back to doing mom activities.  It is then confirmed with MOMMY I have to go potty.  And that is when I throw in the towel and call it done "until I get some quiet time".  Maybe when dad comes home... or maybe not.

This my friends is what Child Induced Writers Block looks like and sounds like.

I should note that these things also happen when I am trying to take a shower, put on make up, clean the house, do laundry or do pretty much anything.