From the bathroom stall where Timmy is taking care of business: “Come out, come out wherever you are!”<\/p>\n
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Last night, Eric walked into the house and suddenly stopped, bent at the waist and examined the wall. “Um…who drew a smiley face on the wall?” Three chorused with “Not me, I didn’t.” And one younger daughter looked guiltily at her daddy with a half-grin on her face. (She had to clean the wall off.)<\/p>\n
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Later, I glance at my feet in the girls’ room to see an orange X on the carpet. “Um, who did this?” Older daughter looks guiltily at me.<\/p>\n
“Really? Ladies, when you were little itty bitty, we had this conversation. Perhaps you remember it? Where are you allowed to draw?”<\/p>\n
“On paper.”<\/p>\n
“Where?”<\/p>\n
“On paper.”<\/p>\n
“So not walls? How about carpets? What about on Timmy? No? Okay, then please keep the drawings off of my house and non-paper things. Okay?”<\/p>\n
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Alex: In my folder, there is a permission slip for doing wrestling.<\/p>\n
Me: Yes?<\/p>\n
Alex: I’m not going to do wrestling.<\/p>\n
Me: (grinning to myself) That’s fine.<\/p>\n
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This morning, breakfast has been eaten. Timmy asked for a second bowl of Lucky Charms. I pour him one. When I come back, he is finishing said bowl and Megan is sitting in front of a foot-wide pile of Lucky Charms…which is mysteriously lacking\u00a0marshmallows. I think she thought I wouldn’t notice.<\/p>\n
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From the bathroom stall where Timmy is taking care of business: “Come out, come out wherever you are!” ___________ Last night, Eric walked into the house and suddenly stopped, bent at the waist and examined the wall. “Um…who drew a … Continue reading