Reasons my children can't stand me today:
I listened to folk music from Finland
I read aloud from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I did not hold hands with them while they pooped
I gave them the wrong colored breakfast plates
I wouldn't let them stand on top of the picnic table
I asked them to slow down near the parking lot
I suggested we have carrots with our lunch
I declined to show a movie before noon
I asked them to pick up a pool noodle and put it away
I cuddled their sibling
I did not give them coffee
I wouldn't let them untie the ribbons on their dress and dangle them into the toilet
I offered to watercolor paint with them
They still love me, though. And I still love them. We must be crazy!
"Love is merely a madness and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do, and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love, too." --W. Shakespeare, As You Like It
There were a few things on your list I could really relate to such as not allowing the girls watch a movie before noon.
ReplyDeleteAnother is not allowing treats before at least 2 bites of something green have been chewed and swallowed. This, of course, is in reference to only one of my children :-)
Ha! The one thing I did do, however, was to give them coffee (a whole lotta milk with a smidgen of Roman's French press sludge!).
Thanks for all your posts.
I miss those monkeys!
Breathtaking
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