Please tell me I'm not the only one..

[Bellsy1]

Sitting here with a very large G&T having spent the afternoon school shoes/trainers/football boot shopping with my 3 kids with eldest nearly 13 Dd constantly bitching to her younger brothers resulting fighting in Sport Direct and me just generally losing the will - hey ho will have definitely earned our family holiday next week! Anyone had a similar afternoon?

I took my 15 and 18 yr olds to buy trainers last week, and was smiling inwardly that it was no longer my turn to be the parent of the fighting / squabbling / niggling / stropping dc that were about

Keep repeating, on a loop, "It is only a phase. It is only a phase"