Do you want to pee alone?

Today I realized something, I mean, besides there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish all I'd like. I realized my children would rather just be in the same room as me, than be playing, eating, watching a movie, reading...or anything else I offered them and set up for them tonight. Yes, us mothers cannot pee, shower, groom, or have really any time alone by ourselves, and most times we complain "I can't even pee alone!"....."can I just do my business by myself!?" , "being right outside the door does not count as being alone while I pee!" "do not knock on the door while I pee, you know what I'm doing, leave me be". These are common phrases around the Dickinson Home. But today as I set things up to shower with Abby, Hailey asked me " can I come down(stairs) with ya?", "sure" I said...really not wanting her to, but reminding myself 'what will it hurt, just let her'. Then of course Emma follows, because where Hailey goes...so does Emma. So here we are in our bathroom...all 4 of us...I'm surprised the dog wasn't there, because she's just as bad as the girls are. I guess I always found it annoying (well, it is, isn't it?). Then I thought, hey, I used to do that when I was little; I bet it was just as annoying to my Mom...which would be why the dialog I use, is pretty much the same as I remember her using.

And tonight, while I showered with Abby, and looked out the marbled glass to my girls, playing in the mirror, hoping I won't catch them getting into the "pretties" (chapstick in the makeup drawer), I realized, 'geez man, they just want to be near you'. 'They just want to be in the same room with you'. Even over all the fun things they could be doing, even the movie we talked about all day that I finally played....they would still rather be in the bathroom with me, not even receiving direct quality attention, than be anywhere else. Wow, how amazing it that?! I mean, I have always said about Paul's grandparents that "they are the type of people you just want to be in the same room with". Maybe its the same with our kids....we are the type of people they just want to hang out with and 'be in the same room with'...even while we pee. Kind of a huge compliment really. I wished I'd had this epiphany sooner.

Anyway, I think from now on, I'll hesitate before I exhaustedly, sarcastically hollar at them to get out while I "do my business". Instead maybe I'll just slyly, oh so gently, lock the door and pretend its stuck.