Mommy's peace and quiet time......or NOT!

Tonight I wanted some peace and quiet time away from the kids so I decided to take a hot relaxing bath. Unfortunately, it wasn't as relaxing as I had hoped it would be. Here's how the story goes....

Since the girls were entranced in a TV show in the kitchen, I decided to sneak into the bathroom and start my bath. I locked the bathroom door because I knew my girls would be in and out of the bathroom for some reason or another and I wanted to be left alone. I also didn't want to take a bath with Brooke, who seems to have made it a habit to join my every shower - some of which is my fault based on convenience to get her bathed quickly or because there is no other adult home when I'm taking a shower and it's a way of keeping watch of her, but also because she LOVES baths and every time she hears water running, she wants to get in! Anyways, so I started my hot bath and had just sank into it when the girls must have realized what I was doing. Next I hear Brooke standing at the door trying to turn the knob and when she realizes that she can't open the door, she starts banging on the door and throwing a fit. I tried my hardest to ignore it, but it just got louder and louder. Then I was thinking, "why isn't Chris stopping her - he knows I wanted some peace and quiet" - but I soon realized that he was on a phone call and couldn't really deal with her at that moment. So, I turned the water back on to hopefully drown out the crying and eventually she settled down and moved onto something else. Yeah!! But no, it wasn't over yet. The next visitor at my door was Maddie, who wanted to tell me what Brooke was doing. She proceeds to say through the door, "Mommy, you know what Brooke was doing just a minute ago? She was throwing a fit - she wants to take a bath with you mommy, you need to let her in!!" So my calm response to that was "Maddie, mommy wants to take a bath all by myself and quietly, could you please leave the door and go play!" So, for the next few minutes, I was all alone with no noise, but again, it didn't last long. At that moment, Maddie was back at the door asking me when I would be done so that she could take a bath. I proceeded to tell her I would be done soon and she needed to be patient. But of course, patience isn't one of her virtues either and she was back again asking me when she would be able to take a bath and if I had used up all the hot water. So at that moment, I just decided it wasn't worth it...it obviously was a bad decision and I just needed to GET OUT! I guess I have learned my lesson that if I want a peaceful and relaxing bath with absolute quiet - I need to wait until the kids are in bed!!!