I'm searching for answers to the following questions. Please help if you can.
Question #1. Why, when I lecture my children does it sound so constructive to me, but when I heard another mom today say, "I don't need to sit here in this heat and listen to you brats. I can do that much more comfortably at home" it sounded so horrible?
Question #2. Last night I was dropping off my (old, frail, nervous) mother-in-law and she had to walk in front of my car to get to the sidewalk. Tell me why on this green earth would I have the biggest urge to lay on the horn just to see her jump? Seriously?! What is wrong with me?? (And please don't tell her I said this!)
Question #3. Does anybody know of a program where you can take about a month-long trip to a third world country simply so your kids can experience major deprivation? I want my kids to have to eat dirt or dig their own water well so that when I ask them to dust on Saturday mornings or unload the dishwasher they don't look and act as though suddenly the weight of the world is on their shoulders.
Question #4: Is it possible to teach a Relief Society lesson next week, on the 4th of July, about the divine hand in the founding of our country and it's religious freedom and not have it turn political and snippy?
Question #5. Tell me, how would you have handled this situation?
Wilson and me.
In Emmett, Idaho (it's as small as it sounds).
Sitting on the grass in the middle of a big crowd at the Cherry Festival.
Surrounded by enthusiastic participants of "Republican Day" at said Cherry Festival.
And Wilson asks,
"What is the difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party?"
And, with Wilson, "They just look at things differently" would NOT cut it. Honestly, try and say out loud what you would have said right there, right then without sounding either like an ignorant dummy or an arrogant meany.
Hope to have some good answers soon.
4 comments:
Ha ha! Was it a rough day in Weiser? If it makes you feel any better, I remember mom and me having the exact same argument about unloading the dishwasher. I would rather have eaten dirt and lived on an island than unload that thing.
About honking the horn: it's not your fault you were born into a family of pranksters! One time I was coming out of walmart and Jodie was parked there and I jumped a foot in the air when she honked her LOUD horn and I accidently did the finger (gasp) and she was laughing so hard! Oh well, what else can you expect from me, a grandma who teaches her little granddaughters to arm fart. Hang in there, your kids are great!!!
#1 - Don't know. I always sounded wittier to myself than to anyone else.
#2 - Remarkable restraint!
#3 - Took kids to poverty stricken village. Came home and lived with grimy bathrooms even though they had seen life with NO bathroom. I think it is something in the water...
#4 - Teach it in a military ward. #5 - What do you get when you cross an elephant with a donkey? A demapublican. I don't think in pratical application there is much difference these days. Wilson may be on to something here...
I hate watching moms walk fast and their little kids with little chubby legs are trying to keep up...and I know it's soo me.
We are taking Ry and Carlie on a humanitarian trip to mexico after Christmas. People that have been say it's life changing. Want to come??
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