Celebration of the Noisy Boys everywhere!

I am sooo sick of my moaning recently and have decided enough is enough! I needed to take a good hard look at myself today, because I have been so woe is me and that is such a boring place to choose! As of today I say enough Storie..enough with the gripes, the sighs, the moans, the groans, the yells, the tears .... it is time to just get down and dirty in celebration of my Noisy Little Boy. A little more of "Boys will be boys" might just get me through life a little easier than "what the frick are you doing now"? I had thought it was the age - but I have just overheard a conversation in the swimming pool dressing room that sounded exactly like a conversation that goes round and round in my head with a boy who was so clearly well into school age that I nearly cried. Sometimes I feel like such a social pariah .. the looks, the gasps, the twitches around me as the little guy melts down in the shops, grabs 400 items in one swift move, bangs all kinds of stuff from counters to ladies legs, finds buttons I never knew existed, darts for emergency exits, pulls hard on things that should be pushed, bends things that should be straight, lifts things that need to be low and pours water on stuff that needs to be dry. My guy seems to have so much energy, needs much less sleep than any other child I know and for some reason I have entered into this negative tone and wallowed my way to a place of poor me which is neither fair to the boy or us as a family. I discipline, I watched all the supernannies, I read all the books - I really do try to do the best I can - but sometimes I still feel so lacking as a parent. Well no more of that pity party, I have a BOY and what a sweet, huggy, hilarious, bright as a button, never a dull moment in the day little noisy boy he is. I am the lucky one and he does well to put up with the boring, socially uptight woman he calls his mum...what on earth is he going to do with her. In celebration of my noisy boy I would like to leave you with a picture of our trampoline that I spied just when I was leaving the house today - this is life with a little noisy boy - do not turn your head away for a minute as you will miss the performance of their life. I would love to hear any stories from people out there with noisy boys of their own - we could start up a group and take them all
out for tea for a laugh!!