PUNISHMENT

Today the boys went to school all day... PUNISHMENT... last night Mimi came over to eat and well, how does the book go, "let the rumpus begin" - it began. They were terrible horrible very bad (I think that is from another book but it fits). So when poor Mimi left – who by the way is a trooper – she actually thinks they are cute, they were IN TROUBLE! They had to clean the kitchen, clean my room (that sounds mean but it WAS clean before the bed became a pirate ship and the room a place for lost treasure), clean their rooms (again, they WERE clean at the beginning of the day) and then put themselves to bed UPSTAIRS ALONE. That didn't really seem to phase them so next best attention grabber SCHOOL! They were shipped off to school at 8 am on a summer day! Let me say for the record, I had not been looking forward to starting school again but after today I am reconsidering. I decided to leave them until the end of the day so I roll in at 5:00 still a little mad and pick them up. They can tell things are not quite well because Grant quietly says, "you are stttiiiillll mad at us?" To which I reply "YES, VERY" and he says to the others "she has never been THIS mad". Of course that did not stop him from sticking his tongue out at Britt and when Britt does so in return Grant yells, "HE STUCK HIS TONGUE OUT AT ME SEND HIM BACK TO SCHOOL"! If you all know where the school is all of this happened before reaching the 2^nd stop sign. I ask them if they know why I am still mad and get a mumbled yes mam then I ask them why on earth they were SO BAD last night. Britt answers that he doesn't know and he is sorry but please don't make him go back to school again because IT WAS TEEERRRIBBBLLLE! This gives my heart a little bit of a flutter because there is nothing worse than sending them for punishment and them having a grand time. Grant tells me he was bad because his stomach hurt and it still hurts so it might make him bad again. The best excuse however it Ben... Ben tells me with the straightest face because to him this is THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH - "Mom I just had too much candy and it all came out". Surprised I ask him when did he eat candy and where did he get it? "You know mom I've been eating it since my birthday and it JUST CAME OUT". With that how can you argue with a 6 year old.... maybe he did?!?! After a long ride home and a lot of talking to – we have decided we will TRY our hardest to be good, not kill one another, and not drive our mom crazy for at least a little while.

This being said – 30 minutes later, which to some might seem like a little while or maybe a little while at the least – we are outside on they riding toys singing, "If you feel sumthin' funny and it feels kindu runny DIAREHA..." - I ask them not to sing this and Grant says u don't like the word diareha? And I answer no it is GROSS (because I am still a GIRL) so I hear the tune being hummed and then "if u feel sumthin' funny and it feels kinda runny … I guess u have to go poo poo or tee tee …. ARGHHH the life with 4 little fellas!