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Parenting Humor
« on: March 27, 2015, 12:19:52 pm »
Mmm.... Oreos....
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2015, 04:58:42 pm »
Quote from: Moonbeam on March 27, 2015, 12:19:52 pm
Mmm.... Oreos....
I have a sign hung up for all to see as they enter my house. It says, "Please excuse the mess. The children are making happy memories."
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2015, 07:49:09 am »
Hilarious.  And so very true.  There are days my SHW and I collapse on the couch and marvel at the mess the house is in.  We simply tell ourselves that the house is well-loved.  What really helps is to visit other home-schooling families and see that their houses are just as well-loved as ours!
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2015, 09:07:58 am »
Hmmm, very true. Trying to figure out why the house is still such a mess 30 years after the kids moved away.  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I have a friend who is a marvelous housekeeper. She seldom has time for anything else. Her house always looks like it must be for sale... Sad way to live, far as I can see.

Making my own happy memories day by day, and few of them involve washing windows or using a toothbrush on the grout. :) I've got better things to do.
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2015, 02:39:48 pm »
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2015, 02:11:36 pm »
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2015, 04:32:27 pm »
No child in my house ever admitted to being bored... if it actually ever happened. We had so much work to do all the time, that nobody sat or stood around much of anywhere. If they were "bored," I always had plenty of things for them to do if they couldn't figure out how to occupy themselves after their regular chores were done. LOL
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« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2015, 02:16:41 pm »
* Of course, it needs to read "sibling" not "classmate." So true. So agonizingly true.  :BangHead:
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2015, 01:43:36 pm »
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2015, 04:37:58 pm »
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2015, 01:57:08 pm »
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2015, 02:15:23 pm »
Gee. Seeing a kid's picture of me tends to make me feel better. I guess it wouldn't if I thought it was an accurate representation, but the inaccuracies tend to be super cute.
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2015, 03:08:07 pm »
A few months ago DD was ticked at me. She made me something and when she handed it to me she said, "This is what you look like when you're angry." It was a humbling experience and a reminder of how I need to pick my battles, lean on patience, and extend grace. I immediately hung it up on the kitchen cabinet as a reminder how precious these times with them truly are. A few days later she was ticked at her twin brother and made a little angry face for him. He was crushed. I said, "Don't worry! We can be together!" and I hung his next to mine. At first she didn't like that and wanted me to take them down. At this point, it's something we all find amusing.

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« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2015, 03:43:24 pm »
Kids can be brutally honest. Good thing they're so full of love.
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Re: Parenting Humor
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2015, 03:12:57 pm »
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Freedom is not being able to do what you want to do; freedom is being able to NOT do what you don't want to do.

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