Today has been very stressful for me!

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Most of my day has gone well. I woke up this morning and two of my sweet children my 9yo daughter (we will call her B) and my 11 year old son (we will call him A), had cooked breakfast on their own. They made perfect fluffy scrambled eggs, oatmeal and homemade biscuits from scratch not the packaged kind. They did a really good job. Nothing was overcooked. That was very kind of them to do so that started my day out very well. Then I took all of my babies to school and my morning started. I went home, did some work on amazon mturk, washed a few loads of laundry, listened to some podcasting, watched a few videos on swagbucks and then just ran errands for the business we own. Now when the children got home off of the bus...That is another story! First thing off the bat when I get to the door to greet them my 5 year old (we will call her Bug) was bursting into tears because her brother, my 7yo (little A) opened the door when she wanted to. I dealt with that melt down very well, no problemo with love hugs and tickles. Then my eldest son A told me that on the bus ride home LITTLE A was telling Bug that her fish died last night (big brothers can be cruel :(...) so I dealt with that. After dealing with that and drying Bug's tears once again (second melt down in the hour) we move on with snack time and homework time...patience already growing quite thin with LITTLE A my little BUG looks at me tears building up in her eyes again and says that LITTLE A told her SANTA WASNT REAL!!!! At this point I am growing quite frustrated and feel myself getting upset with LITTLE A's carelessness and telling little BUG things with intentions of hurting her feelings, so i tell him to go into his room to think about how he treated others today and if he would like to be treated this way. While he was in his bedroom reflecting his friend came over and knocked on the door. His friend wanted to know if LITTLE A could play...of course with everything that was happening i politely told his friend that he in fact could not play. At this point LITTLE A is in a total meltdown, a kicking yelling temper tantrum because i sent his friend away. I feel my patience growing thinner and thinner and finally politely tell LITTLE A to have a time out until he could gather control of his emotions and thoughts and when he could that he could come out of time out. He stands there yelling and screaming and throwing an angry fit for 30 minutes (the time that he should have been doing his homework before his basketball practice) and when his teenager sister (we will call her KK) asked who had practice tonight and i replied "LITTLE A is suppose to but his behavior is going to make it where he will not be attending this evening" At that exact second his tantrum stopped and he went and started working on his homework.... then he wanted me to go and take him to practice and got upset when I explained that he would not be going due to bad behavior...This tantrum throwing has been going on with him for some time now so I was forced to try another way of correcting the problem and I think I may be on to something with this. He has straightened up so far and has been working hard on his homework...sad that he has to miss practice but I am not sorry about it at the same time....I just hope all of my children know when they grow up that everything I have done for them is out of love <3