Extreme Makeover the Kid Edition

Here is a little riddle for ya to ponder....what is the direct opposite of cool, calm and collected.....give up?? Okay, okay it is......motherhood. Yesterday started off like any other day for us......and then I took my children to the dentist....and that is where I realized that quite simply my children are brats....I also realized that I may as well be a mute because the second I open my mouth their little ears turn completely off. So there I was at the dentist office knee deep in a nervous break down and I realized (it was apparently a day of realizations) that if something didn't change....and I mean drastically change....this mommy was going to lose it....go completely insane....and possibly quite possibly run far, far away. So today while I sent them off to their very last day at daycare I spent the day making chore charts, house rules and a consequence jar. The second that they stepped foot in the house this afternoon I sat them down and explained it all to them and how the household was going to work from now on. Now I realize (yet again) that stuff like this doesn't just magically change overnight (oh how I wish it did though) and I know that "consistency is the key" to things of this nature. I also know that I have 26 days until school starts back...so I am on a one mama mission to change these little brats that have taken over my house back into the lovely little (with any luck....listening) children that I gave birth to.....Here is to consistency and a whole heck of a lot of wishful thinking....and if all else fails I will be blogging from a beach in Mexico with an untraceable IP address :-)