Reentry

I've been travelling a bit lately and while I'd like to say it hasn't affected me or my children, I can't.

For example, I will be in the bathroom about to take a shower and the door will fly open and a 4 year old will walk in and say, "Can you show me your nipples?" and I want to say, "Just because I'm your mother doesn't mean you can HUMILIATE me!" but then I realize I'm wrong so I just get into the shower because it's the closest I'll get to privacy - if you ignore the face pressed to the glass.

Also, their father is a bit LAX in certain departments and when I return it's obvious that they've regressed.

Tonight at dinner my 6year old excused herself to the bathroom but she neglected to close the door.  While the rest of us spoke, loud sounds erupted from the bathroom.  My husband and I gave each other looks like, "This is the time to hire that cleaning lady we've always dreamed about." and also, "Be Afraid."

She returned to the table a few minutes later and sat down.  When my nine year old excuse HIMself to the bathroom she sank down in her chair.  I thought she was embarassed but just before he reached the bathroom she sat upright and put her hand to her ear as though she was listening for something.  Seconds later he entered the bathroom and screamed.

My husband, my daughter and I fell over we were laughing so hard.

Later, at bedtime, the same daughter got super cranky.  She's in first grade and she's always exhausted by bed time.  We sat down and read a book on my ipad and then I started doodling and wrote her name.  She freaked out and started crying.  "I'm done." I told her.  "Brush your teeth."

She calmed down and then she asked me to write something else - "NOT HER NAME."  So I wrote one of her nicknames.  She got mad.

Then she asked me to write something else and I wrote, "CRANKY."

Then I left the room and when I came back she held up the paper.  On it, she had written, "DUM"

"There is a 'b' at the end of dumb," I told her.

She wrote it backward and glared at me triumphantly.

"That's a 'D'" I said.

For having misspelled the word "DUMB" in an attempt to insult me, she looked appropriately sheepish.

 

Comments

[Jim W.]

welcome back

[Barbara]

you brighten my day!

[lltownley]

This reminds me of an old diary entry when I was a child. In ballpoint pen, it read: "MY SISTER IS DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM" etc, filling up the whole page. But in what was obviously my handwriting, but at an older age, I had penciled in lowercase "b"s at the end of each DUM.

Thanks for reminding me of that. :)

[dentist Toowoomba]

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