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Sunday, November 07, 2004
holding onto sanity by my fingernails
This last week has made me eat every word I ever said about my children's utter lack of sibling rivalry. It is as if they have been possessed by the spirits of my brother at 8 and me at 5. In other words, you know they love each other, but they keep driving each other (and hence their mother) absolutely bananas. I think it was Thursday, or maybe it was Tuesday, when I was awakened at around eight o'clock by my son's voice: "MOMMY! C said [swear word beginning with S, and yes, this is all my fault, because I am the best mom ever]!!" Of course that meant he had said it too, so I let him know that he would share her punishment, which was to have to write forty nice words, in addition to their schoolwork. He called her a name for "getting him into trouble", so in addition to the forty pleasant words, he had to write ten nice words about his sister. All in his best handwriting. C's words were largely illegible, and very faint, but they ran heavy to horses and names of flowers. Here is LT's list, spelling intact:
10 NICE THINGS ABOUT C
- Prety
- Swete
- nice
- cute
- smart
- good
- sciny ["skinny" (!!)]
- Gubby (one of her nicknames)
- Hoy (another nickname, because she used to get up in the morning, stumble into our room, and say, "Hoy, Daddy")
- C-girl (did I mention T gives out nicknames like some dads give out noogies?)
OTHER NICE WORDS
- happy
- rainy day
- cheerful
- Morobay
- soft
- dry
- warm
- flours (flowers)
- fun
- games
- elifent
- ducks
- crusht tranchlas
- playing
- frends
- love
- singing
- Mopar
- Legos
- choclit
- snoeflakes
- grene
- moon
- rose
- ladybugs
- grass
- trees
- cute
- crusht joonbugs
- swimming
- no school
- Daddy home
- holiday
- thanksgiveing
- reeding
- drawing
- creeks
- rivers
- lakes
- frendly
Hey, I'll take my parenting high points where I can get them, in a week like that one.
