notes to the neighbors
When you see me out and about with my cute hat on, it's probably because I haven't washed my hair. Don't worry, I do shower most days. It just doesn't always happen BEFORE I have to have all the kids dressed and out the door.
Yes, I do let my children scream as loudly as they want to when they're playing in the back yard. Because if I didn't, they'd be screaming that loudly in here next to me, and I can't handle that.
Maybe someday I will successfully train my kids to pick up after themselves. Until then, our house is going to be the one with bicycles in the driveway, dolls buried in the flowerbeds, and windows with crayon artwork taped to them.
This one's for you, stupid teenagers who play in the schoolyard in the evenings: fences are not soundproof. Just because you can't see the people who live in the houses on the other side of the fence doesn't mean we (and our small children) can't all hear you yelling profanities at each other. Also, stop littering. It makes me mad.
I try to keep my daughters from picking the dandelions out of other people's yards and blowing the seeds every which way, thus further spreading the weeds...but I don't always succeed. And they're convinced that dandelions have magical wishing power, and that MORE dandelions = a good thing. And I haven't had the heart to crush their delusion. I'm sorry.
Yes, I do let my children scream as loudly as they want to when they're playing in the back yard. Because if I didn't, they'd be screaming that loudly in here next to me, and I can't handle that.
Maybe someday I will successfully train my kids to pick up after themselves. Until then, our house is going to be the one with bicycles in the driveway, dolls buried in the flowerbeds, and windows with crayon artwork taped to them.
This one's for you, stupid teenagers who play in the schoolyard in the evenings: fences are not soundproof. Just because you can't see the people who live in the houses on the other side of the fence doesn't mean we (and our small children) can't all hear you yelling profanities at each other. Also, stop littering. It makes me mad.
I try to keep my daughters from picking the dandelions out of other people's yards and blowing the seeds every which way, thus further spreading the weeds...but I don't always succeed. And they're convinced that dandelions have magical wishing power, and that MORE dandelions = a good thing. And I haven't had the heart to crush their delusion. I'm sorry.
3 comments:
Daughter has recently discovered the joy of "the puffy flowers"! Squash her joy? No way!
I let me kids scream their heads off in the backyard too. Sometimes I feel badly because they are REALLY loud! But if I can't let them scream in the yard where can they scream? Certainly not in school, church or like you said, inside next to me!
That's sweet. My girls are dandelion pickers too.
Funny about the screaming too. Germans have it backwards - you be loud indoors and quiet outdoors. I don't get it. Neither do my kids. :0
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