How do you make them STOP?! in I don't know....

I can't get my kids to quit bickering. It's mostly the younger two now. Sometimes it's all 3 or some combination of 2 out of 3. How do you make it stop?!

I really bent over backwards for my kids today. I unloaded/reloaded the dishwasher for them, didn't make them do school, let them play outside all day, they got a nice treat when they woke up (cards, candy, money, and some self inflating balloons), and I bought pizza and we had salad and I let them open the only bottle of gingerale in the house for dinner. I mean, I really tried to be nice to them today. I worked at not fussing at them and tried to work through some minor issues.

However, after dinner I asked my girls to go put a load of clothes in to wash. Bailey was running short on jeans/pants and I told them to go run a full load of their clothes. No. Big. Deal. I went outside to burn the pizza boxes and from the OUTSIDE by the burn barrel I hear my girls screaming at each other!!!!

I have had it! I have tried to show grace and mercy with them because they haven't felt well. I know things are stressful with this whole job/Ohio thing (I'll tell you about that in a minute). For the love of all that is normal and good why can't my kids have ONE DAY where they aren't bickering with each other constantly. So, then they had to work. No tv, on their beds the rest of the evening. I'm just done with them.

Ohio - heh....nothing out of them. One e-mail asking what it would take to relocate us and Eric said they would have to move us, but other than that.....nada. I don't think they can see their way clear to pay him what he wants or move us. The recruiter asked if we could Uhaul it up there ourselves. Eric told her no. I am not unhappy in the least, either. Not one bit. I will be shocked if we hear anything else other than a "thanks for coming. We will keep you in mind for the future." Not one bit unhappy about it.

Now to try to bring some semblance of order back to my home and create calm out of this chaos that Eric created.