StantonHyde
08-11-2012, 07:59 PM
Sigh...Today has been a day. I am currently working my way through a nice gin and tonic and thankfully, we are going to friends for dinner. DH is working this weekend so I am solo.
The kids both have summer math packets they have to do. Despite my efforts, (not best efforts mind you--I have been derailed by the Olympics), they still have several pages to finish before school starts in a week!! So I made them do 3 pages each today. This should take them no longer than 20 minutes. But with the whining and crying, and complaining, it takes a good hour. I tell them its their choice as to how long it takes and they know they can get it done in 15 minutes. But they rarely do. It is all I can do to keep my calm while grinding my teeth.
In the middle of this, DD tells me she knows I am the tooth fairy and I ask her--really?? Just trying to play coy. Then she goes to the EAster Bunny and Santa Claus!!!! They both look at me--"No lying, are you the Tooth Fairy?" I reply, Yes, I am. Repeat with the Easter Bunny. Then repeat with Santa. Seriously kids.....You can't figure this out by yourselves after I just fessed up? But no and I tell them that DH and I buy the presents but that Santa is part of the magic of Christmas. (They go to Catholic schools so they have the whole birth of Jesus part down pat) I told them that they asked me the TRUTH and that I won't lie to them. (which is a lie, I lie all the time--that store is closed today, we can't go, etc. just to make my life easier) But this is big stuff and I don't lie or beat around the bush when it comes to big stuff.
DD was fine with it--she's the one who suspected all along--just like DH. Poor DS is like me--he cried and he said he had been such a fool. I hugged him and told him about when I found out Santa wasn't real and I think that helped him.
They did finish their homework and then we still had to go to the grocery store, where I managed to run over DD's toe with the cart. Yeesh!!!! I wish our friends were coming here so I could drink a lot :D. And DH isn't going because the sinus infection that DD and I had and he doesn't want to get our friends' kids sick--they both have pretty hefty asthma and the 5 yo has been hospitalized several times. I can still drink when I get back home!!!
The trials of having your kids grow up....
The kids both have summer math packets they have to do. Despite my efforts, (not best efforts mind you--I have been derailed by the Olympics), they still have several pages to finish before school starts in a week!! So I made them do 3 pages each today. This should take them no longer than 20 minutes. But with the whining and crying, and complaining, it takes a good hour. I tell them its their choice as to how long it takes and they know they can get it done in 15 minutes. But they rarely do. It is all I can do to keep my calm while grinding my teeth.
In the middle of this, DD tells me she knows I am the tooth fairy and I ask her--really?? Just trying to play coy. Then she goes to the EAster Bunny and Santa Claus!!!! They both look at me--"No lying, are you the Tooth Fairy?" I reply, Yes, I am. Repeat with the Easter Bunny. Then repeat with Santa. Seriously kids.....You can't figure this out by yourselves after I just fessed up? But no and I tell them that DH and I buy the presents but that Santa is part of the magic of Christmas. (They go to Catholic schools so they have the whole birth of Jesus part down pat) I told them that they asked me the TRUTH and that I won't lie to them. (which is a lie, I lie all the time--that store is closed today, we can't go, etc. just to make my life easier) But this is big stuff and I don't lie or beat around the bush when it comes to big stuff.
DD was fine with it--she's the one who suspected all along--just like DH. Poor DS is like me--he cried and he said he had been such a fool. I hugged him and told him about when I found out Santa wasn't real and I think that helped him.
They did finish their homework and then we still had to go to the grocery store, where I managed to run over DD's toe with the cart. Yeesh!!!! I wish our friends were coming here so I could drink a lot :D. And DH isn't going because the sinus infection that DD and I had and he doesn't want to get our friends' kids sick--they both have pretty hefty asthma and the 5 yo has been hospitalized several times. I can still drink when I get back home!!!
The trials of having your kids grow up....