Top 5 ways to deal with 3 screaming children at the dinner table:
"No, mommy, no! No broccoli for me!" "Eeeeeyaaaa, eeeeyaaaa, hiyaaaa!" "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, . . . " 5. Sink down in your chair, be very quite, and think real hard about being invisible--maybe they will forget you are there. 4. In the middle of their screaming loudly launch into your favorite song. "Take me home, country road, to the place . . . "(is this seriously where I belong?) 3. Stare out the window, click your heals, and think "There's no time like bed time. There's no time like bed time . . ." 2. Puff out your cheeks, look at the children, and blink with both eyes as fast as you can. The blinking produces a very cool strobe-light effect and that, combined with the lack of oxygen due to holding your breath, can almost make you think you are in a very hip, noisy, night club until a cheesy noodle hits you in the face. (I just figured this one out tonight.) 1. If you can't beat 'em . . . JOIN 'EM! AHHHHHHH, EIYYAAA, HIYAAAA! Because, after all, "tomorrow is another day." And there's your new quote for the week.Monday, August 20, 2007
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What would we mothers do without the six o'clock bedtime?
And sorry about the cheesy noodle in the face. Nobody should have to face dinner that way.
I'm guessing "Gone With the Wind." Am I right?
Love reading this. Keep it up.
Jillyn
Honey, these are a lot of fun. Good children's book material. Love you.
Mom
Ah...my first visit to your blog and you bless me with an easy one.
Scarlett O'Hara (and my new granddaughter's first name, too, btw) as she contemplates getting Rhett back...Tomorrow at Tara, Home.
I saw that movie for the first time with it's rerelease when I was in high school. Cried so hard I made myself sick and my mother mad. Of course, I was recovering from a serious car accident so i wasn't really in a good place.
My boyfriend bought me the hard cover edition of the book after that. And I bought the sheet music and learned to play it. I still have it in a box somewhere. Great quote...we all need to give ourselves some time to get something, get some perspective, and THEN make things right.
oh to have been Scarlett, to have her willpower today. Oh to live at a place like Tara! Wow.
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