Baptising cats

Sometimes I feel like watching other people's children is like baptising cats... a little frustrating, very funny and inevitably someone gets "scratched". Today we had 3 "time outs" by 730 am. Not an auspicious beginning. Then, as the morning has progressed and the giggling gaggle of girls have had many "MOTO" (Master of the Obvious) moments and my sense of homur is restored. We have a litle sign we put up in the living room. It says "Cogitate before you Conversate". We should all apply that more often. Well off to baptise more cats... lol