What Is Up With My Kids Today?
Okay, if you have kids, you are going to to know what I am talking about here. If you do have kids and can’t relate, please don’t tell me.. because I want to believe that ALL moms have these kind of days periodically.
So all I can say is… What the heck is up with my kids today? Okay, let’s start with the baby – at least I know what is wrong with her. She has a new tooth coming in that is making her oh so very crabby. At least she has an excuse, I can ride with that.
It’s the 3 boys… all I can say is they are in sooooo much trouble today! Is it the HOT humid weather that makes us all go crazy? Am I just crabby because I am adding a year on to my age tomorrow? Or maybe we can just chalk it up to a horrible, no good, very bad day.
So the day started with fighting – lots and lots of pointless arguing, pushing, punching mayhem. One cries then the next cries and on it goes. Make It STOP! So, I decided they must need something constructive to do – laundry sorting is prescribed. And they are off – to sort laundry. Of course every couple minutes my quiet bliss is interrupted with “Mom, which pile does this go in?” “Mom, this has light and dark on it, now what?” But hey, they were working together – all is good.
A few minutes later I decided to go check on them at which point I find the grocery bags full of groceries that I had sent down with them last night to put into the FREEZER. Yes, you read that correctly LAST NIGHT, GROCERIES, FREEZER, FLOOR. That is correct, my groceries are on the floor not in the freezer… At this point the amount of money spent on said groceries is tallied up and deducted from my darling son’s allowance accounts. (Too bad for them a lot of it was those Dippin Dots type of ice-cream – that they LOVE – that I only buy once a year when it goes on sale and there was like 20 containers of that – destroyed.)
Moving on – we headed to town on what was supposed to be a fun trip to the local Cherry Street Art Festival. The actual festival was not too exciting – but we got out of the house and partook in some yummy non-healthy food in the 90 degree 75% humidity weather. Of course what did they do in the car? Fight.
We got home and Dane very nicely asked his brothers over and over and over again to play Wii with him. They very rudely responded no, no, no. So I asked them to go play Wii with him and the whining continued – “we don’t want to! blah blah blah”. So, I decided to give them a gift. They don’t have to play Wii at all for the next week! (since it is such punishment to do so!) And then the wailing began… WHAT!?! I was granting their wish… they didn’t want to play Wii…. 
At this point I go downstairs to do some laundry (and play some Wii with Dane) where I found the laundry half-sorted. Apparently after the freezer incident they decided they didn’t have to finish the laundry job? So back down they came… They stood and stared as I took clothes out of the dryer, put them into a laundry basket and turned around and looked at them and said “These are clean – do not sort these.” I left, came back 5 minutes later… and guess what they decided to sort first? Yup… my clean clothes. Seriously??? I said (in a very annoyed voice) “what happened, I told you these are clean!” Their response? “Oh, we thought you said they were dirty..” HUH? “Why would I be taking clean clothes out of the dryer? You stood there and watched me do that and I told you they were clean.” At which point Dane says “It wasn’t me… it was them…(pointing his finger at his brothers)” LOL Of course it was no one’s fault!
We had a make-shift dinner – I had had it at this point. They were (fairly healthily) fed – all is well. Matt gets home, and he is still in a good mood because he has been gone all day.. So he offers to set-up the sprinkler for them to play in since it is so hot. (the boys had begged earlier to do this and I had said no.) Dane is excited – goes and tells his brothers who say “We don’t WANT to…” At this point Matt MAKES them go out and play in the sprinkler. I KNOW… such child abuse.
They are now downstairs (probably playing Wii) LOL But I did catch one great moment of the day! My two youngest playing together – NICELY!
C-
