Blown Away

Sometimes my kids do things that blow me away.  Totally shock me, but in a good way.  Today was one of those days.  I have been overly stressed lately, with a lot of things going on.  They will pass.  And I took the kids to lunch to meet my mom.  There was a water spicket and Eli stuck his hand in it and let the water hit it.  I got on to him and then in line for our food, he was not paying attention and I had to get on to him several times for various things.  When we sat down at the table I said

 

"Eli, I am very disappointed in your behavior, you will get a spanking"

Noah said "I would like to show Eli mercy"

me "what?"

Noah "I would like to show Eli mercy, I will take his spanking"

Me "What?....Okay, come here."

 

So Noah walked over and Eli's eyes were huge like saucers & I spanked Noah (Not hard)

 

I said to Eli "This is like what Jesus did, he took the punishment for something he did not deserve"

 

Eli was in total shock, he hugged me and said he was going to be good for the rest of the day, because he had been shown mercy.

 

This was one of those parenting things, that I could have never arranged in a million years.  It made me so proud of my kiddos.

 

 

The Sibling Song

 

When I was a little girl, my mother would make my sister and I sing this stupid song.  I HATED it, I mean despised it.  In fact I swore I would never make my kids sing it.  Here is how it works.  My sister and I would be fighting, hitting, what ever but in full out hate.  Then mom would say in her super cheery voice "time to sing the sister song"  we would say "no!  I'm not doing it!  NOT THE SISTER SONG!"  she would say "yes, the sister song"  Then she would make us hug and sing:

"sisters were sisters,

nothing comes between me and my sister. 

Together forever to the very end,

nothing comes between me and my sister

because were best friends"

I hated it, hated it.

I am sure my sister feels the same way

Well I discovered that it actually works.

A few days ago my boys were fighting & I told them if they kept it up I would make them sing the brother son & I taught it to them.  So today at Chic-fli-a they were fighting & kept coming to me "Mom he hit me" "Mom he did this" "Mom he did that"  So finally I said "That's enough, come here, Okay now hug, okay sing the brother song" 

Boys - "WHAT?.....NO!"

Me "Yes sing"

So in Chick-fli-a they hugged and mumbled

"brothers were brothers,

nothing comes between me and my brother.

Together forever to the very end,

nothing comes between me and my brother

because were best friends"

When they left my friends asked "what did you just make them do?"  and I told them.  They then asked me to post this because the boys did not come back to me until it was time to go.  So here you go ladies, my creative parenting punishment.  Hugging and singing.

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Mouse in the House

I’d been sick and was taking a nice nap when I was awakened by this

MOM there is a mouse in the house! MOM there is a mouse in the house!

I was not totally taken off guard but I thought they had seen it.

Me: what?
Noah: there is a mouse in the house, but don’t worry we are going to catch it
Me: what?
Eli: ya we have our mouse catching stuff on

Me: What?

Kids: Look mom gloves and stuff

(note jewerly box to place caught mouse in & gloves to protect their hands)

After taking a look at their get-up I realised they had thought of everything and sent them down to their dad.

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On New Years Eve I went to sleep early, my husband stayed up with the kids doing fun New Years eve stuff. He thought it would be safe to watch Rocking New Years Eve with the kids. Then she came out




Basically wearing underwear.


N: Dad that girl has no pants on!
E: Ya Dad she is in her underwear!
Dad: (thinking)
N: why is she in her underwear?
Dad: Yes, she is in her underwear isn’t she? This is the kind of girl you never want to bring home to your mother. Make sure you bring home a girl who has pants on (score for dad)

Fast forward to the morning

Me (making waffles)
E: Mom I am going to bring home a girl wearing underwear
Me: Oh ya? Well she better have pants on over her underwear
E: no just underwear
Me: Hmm, well she cant come inside and you will be locked in your room for the rest of your life
E: I was just kidding, she will have pants on

How about you?  Have you ever thought something was okay and then turned out it was not?