We implemented the most cruel punishment for our children imaginable this summer.
Homework.
Ohhhhh yeah! (Kool-aid man style!). I think it might just be paying off. For son at any rate.
Daughter had a friend over for a sleep-over this Saturday. It went well, the friend was quiet and polite. Unfortunately I had one of those "complete and absolute head-up-ass lack of judgement" moments and told them....and I quote me....."I don't care how late you stay up. As long as you aren't loud."
Spectacular forethought on my part.
2 am rolls around and they are still fooling around. Going into son's room and bugging him (which is a very odd twist of the 'norm) and generally being turdlets. This made for super-awesome kids the next day. Son was good up until he got home from the movies with hubby. Then he turned into a little rat-shit spawned from the bowels of some Turkish outhouse.
Which led to a time out. And a warning. A warning which was not listened too. Time out number two was one of those "don't show your little weasel face until supper in ON the table". He was productive during his time out.
A new hole in the tape covering the holes he previously bored into the walls. And a very well written sign.....
I'm actually quite proud of him. It's all spelled right...and really neat (for him). I also found this.....
I am fairly sure there is some symbolism in this act of
Webkinz staging.
Things that make you say "Hmmmm" - Inspired by RUM
- In medieval England jurors weren't fed until they reached a decision.
- The Chinese used to scatter firecrackers around the house - as fire alarms.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- A child laughs about 400 times per day. Adults laugh about 15 times.
- The blood vessels of a blue whale are so wide that an adult trout could swim through them.
- Some beaver dams are more than 1,000 years old.
- Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients.
- 25% of Americans think Sherlock Holmes was a real person.
- The leading cause of death in Papua, New Guinea is falling out of a tree.
- Babies are born without kneecaps.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- Los Angeles is 2cm closer to San Fransisco than it was a year ago.
- In her entire lifetime, Queen Isabella of Spain (1451-1504) bathed twice. King Louis XIV bathed three times.
- Per capita, the cities of Winnipeg and CALGARY drink the most Slurpees in the world.
- More than 50% of all the lakes in the world are in CANADA
- Belgians once tried to deliver mail using cats. (It didn't work.)
Words of 'wisdom' from the Rummy One (and various people I've stolen from)
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Some people are like slinkys; they serve no useful purpose, but they do make you smile when they tumble down the stairs.
When I was a kid we had a sandbox. Actually it was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.
It's a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just potatoes.
You know what I miss? I miss the old days, when I'd think up a sinister scheme for world domination and friends would show a little emotional support. I mean come on now....really.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear to you: I have absolutely no idea how this sentence I'm currently writing is going to finish. When and if it does, I can only hope it makes some kind of coherent ceramic pineapple vibraphone.
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4 comments:
Those Webkinz are definitely contemplating making a break for it. Either that, or they're holding up tiny little signs (impossible to see from this angle) that say, "SAVE ME!"
We had a day like that today. A day filled with, "Bunker Monkey, pickupyourtoyspickupyourtoysPICKUPYOURTOYS!"
At which he calmly looks up and says, and I quote, "Huh?"
And they wonder why I take meds.
I LOVE the animals looking outside, wishing for freedom. I think you can learn a LOT from the way your kids position their dolls.
Oh..the webkinz lined up are too funny! Looks like they are getting ready to do a prison break
It was probably the rum you were drinking! LOL
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