Happy 4th of July! Sitting here (in the cabin) just reflecting on the previous day's events and glad we are finally together. From cleaning and preparing for my in-laws (mom-in-law, sis-in-law, and two adorable nephews) to the fight between my two precious kiddos, and the wrong turn taken to Bryce Canyon...we are reunited.
I was busy getting last minute laundry and vacuuming finished. My husband, was doing yard work and washing the Ranger for the big PARADE! Gotta have a shiny Ranger for the Duck Creek parade. Kids don't care about the decorated Ranger as much as the five bags of candy they will pelt at children on the side of the road. It was requested that I purchase only hard candies....OUCH!
Got a call from my sister in law, who asked, "Are you near Pine Lake?" to which I said, "Hang on let me get the man of the house and his directions". You see, I am more of a "fast food landmarker". Ahhh, take a left at the Wendy's and go two blocks 'til you see the Chili's, pass a Taco Bell and turn right.... you see how my directions work. So, when I was asked about a Pine Lake, I gave up....
Tony got on the phone to help his sister. I heard him ask, "Okay, where are you now?"...and her response, Pine Lake. "Okay, are you headed North?" She said she was North and then he asked her to turn right and yet... she was still North. At this point, Tony asked her to use the GPS in the new car. I also heard him remind her that there were two "tech savvy" kiddos in the back of the car who could easily operate the GPS. This is very true. Kids have a way with computer screens, it looks just like a Nintendo.
Fast forward to a second phone call, (forty five minutes later) when sister in law cheerfully called to give me an update. She had made "a complete circle", finding the road and was headed to our cabin. Let's call it the Scenic Circle...
During my in laws "scenic drive", my own kids decided to have World War III. Fighting ensued, a glass of pink lemonade hit the carpet, mom got mad, one kid had bite marks on his shoulder and tears were flowing. Wishing I was in my sister in law's "Scenic Circle ride"...I put my smack down on the kiddos. I wanted them to cool down before the family arrived. Who knows, in a perpetual circle, it may take awhile. I was wishing for that.
I made both kids write their side of the story. I was tired of the "he said/she said" and really didn't care...I had pink lemonade soaking into the carpet. So, here my kids were, sitting on the front porch on the green Adirondack chairs, writing their confessions. Max wrote two pages that basically kept him out of trouble. At the end, he pleaded mercy and wrote, "If you believe me and love me, trust the kid that is bleeding TO DEATH."
Maddie's letter was three pages and complete with illustration of her fall off the hammock rolling into a rock down a "little slope". Very graphic. Great use of vocabulary! She ended her letter with..."Mom, I am sorry if I hurt your feelings when I hurt Max"...ah, she did bite him. Lots of big hearts at the bottom of the page too.
So, I did what all Moms do, I kept these letters. They are great!! So are my kids now that their cousins left their perpetual circle near a Pine Lake. All four of them are playing great, as usual.
We are off to pelt candy at unsuspecting kiddos now. More to come! Happy 4th!!
I was busy getting last minute laundry and vacuuming finished. My husband, was doing yard work and washing the Ranger for the big PARADE! Gotta have a shiny Ranger for the Duck Creek parade. Kids don't care about the decorated Ranger as much as the five bags of candy they will pelt at children on the side of the road. It was requested that I purchase only hard candies....OUCH!
Got a call from my sister in law, who asked, "Are you near Pine Lake?" to which I said, "Hang on let me get the man of the house and his directions". You see, I am more of a "fast food landmarker". Ahhh, take a left at the Wendy's and go two blocks 'til you see the Chili's, pass a Taco Bell and turn right.... you see how my directions work. So, when I was asked about a Pine Lake, I gave up....
Tony got on the phone to help his sister. I heard him ask, "Okay, where are you now?"...and her response, Pine Lake. "Okay, are you headed North?" She said she was North and then he asked her to turn right and yet... she was still North. At this point, Tony asked her to use the GPS in the new car. I also heard him remind her that there were two "tech savvy" kiddos in the back of the car who could easily operate the GPS. This is very true. Kids have a way with computer screens, it looks just like a Nintendo.
Fast forward to a second phone call, (forty five minutes later) when sister in law cheerfully called to give me an update. She had made "a complete circle", finding the road and was headed to our cabin. Let's call it the Scenic Circle...
During my in laws "scenic drive", my own kids decided to have World War III. Fighting ensued, a glass of pink lemonade hit the carpet, mom got mad, one kid had bite marks on his shoulder and tears were flowing. Wishing I was in my sister in law's "Scenic Circle ride"...I put my smack down on the kiddos. I wanted them to cool down before the family arrived. Who knows, in a perpetual circle, it may take awhile. I was wishing for that.
I made both kids write their side of the story. I was tired of the "he said/she said" and really didn't care...I had pink lemonade soaking into the carpet. So, here my kids were, sitting on the front porch on the green Adirondack chairs, writing their confessions. Max wrote two pages that basically kept him out of trouble. At the end, he pleaded mercy and wrote, "If you believe me and love me, trust the kid that is bleeding TO DEATH."
Maddie's letter was three pages and complete with illustration of her fall off the hammock rolling into a rock down a "little slope". Very graphic. Great use of vocabulary! She ended her letter with..."Mom, I am sorry if I hurt your feelings when I hurt Max"...ah, she did bite him. Lots of big hearts at the bottom of the page too.
So, I did what all Moms do, I kept these letters. They are great!! So are my kids now that their cousins left their perpetual circle near a Pine Lake. All four of them are playing great, as usual.
We are off to pelt candy at unsuspecting kiddos now. More to come! Happy 4th!!
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