I was really busy today. I made breakfast, lunches and ponytails. I took kids to school and finished this weeks’ newspaper column. I met with my friend and YoungLives (teen mom mentoring program) coordinator for a quick brainstorming session.
I interviewed a friend from church who has an amazing ministry that is going to be featured in an upcoming issue of MetroChristian Living. I ran to the grocery store. I picked Sadie up from preschool and came home and almost forgot to put up groceries.
I put up the groceries and started thinking about an essay in Book 2 that had been niggling (<-that is a REAL word) the back of my brain. I sat down to write for just a few minutes and Sadie came running by in socks, underwear and a hairbow.
Me: Why are you nekkid?
Sadie: I’m not.
Um. Okay.
I worked on the essay until I glanced at the clock and it was already 2:30. Which in mommy time is like POUNDSIGN: OMGgrabYourBabyAndYourKeysAndHaulButt. (My brother-in-law has started speaking in internet lingo and says, “Pound Sign” like you would use a twitter hashtag but in actual conversation and It. Is. Funny. Try it, you will likey.)
I thought maybe Sadie would fall asleep in the car but no. Nope. Negatory. She was awake. She is, in fact, still awake right now.
POUNDSIGN: ShesAboutToDriveMeCrazy.
While I was cooking dinner and helping The Bigs with homework, Sadie picked out her Halloween costume: Gene Simmons.
Twinkies, right?
THEN she started getting all agro (v. to be angry and hostile for no reason) and ripped down the shower curtain in The Bigs bathroom and I started to worry about possible anabolic steroid usage.
She was talking about wrestling and joining the WWF and kicking around stage names…
“Terrible Two”
“Mommy’s Worst Nightmare”
“No Nap No Mercy”
(Sidebar: I find it hilarious that she is wearing her sister’s romper bassackwards and is totally zipping out.)
Dinnertime wasn’t looking promising but I was ready to discount her behavior as exhaustion until I saw this…
She is painting her fingernails with a marker.
Sadie has gone Goth.
We are one step away from white pancake makeup and her asking if she can get her teeth filed into vampire fangs.
POUNDSIGN: WeNeedBedtimeOrAnInterventionNOW
That is one of the funniest things I’ve read yet!! You are awesome!!
Thanks Deb!!
Oh my goodness!!! Thank you so much for making my day!! I know it may not be fun at your house but it made me laugh so hard I snorted and my hubby asked do I even want to know. I showed him Sadie AKA Gene Simmons and he laughed so hard he snorted!! 😉
Oh I approve. I APPROVE OF THE SNORT. By the time Zeb got home I had forgotten she had even done it and he was like, “What the whaaaaaat?” And I was like, “What?”
Oh I so know this game today! Day two of hubby being out of town and my boys have decided not to nap. We’ve been up at 5am both days and right around 3pm, I don’t recognize these dudes! They lose their minds! Randomly: “Mommy, I want chocolate.” You’re not getting chocolate. And then a scream as if straight from some 80s hair band. Loving it! Thankfully, they are asleep now. And I’m eating chocolate.
I love it when I’m like, “We don’t even HAVE any chocolate.” And they are like, “Yes, we do. It’s in the top of the pantry hidden behind the oatmeal.” POUNDSIGN: Dang. Busted.
so, your kids are know-it-alls too, ha ha!! I can’t get away with anything at home for them buggars. repeat anything you say, find the goodies, etc… Man its tough being a grown up!
Can’t. Stop. Laughing! I love you and your kiddos! Sadie and HG need a playdate soon! They’ll cancel each other out right?
Heehee. We love y’all too!
Pound Sign: LMBO
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