Trash Day
Anyone ever
play a game with your kids called Take out the Trash? I must confess, this is a
game that was unintentionally made-up in my household. No one ever wanted to
take out the trash. My kids would toss items into the trash until it was almost
overflowing, but didn’t tie it up.
I would push
the trash deeper into the can and wait for one of the kids to take it outside.
It didn’t happen. We continued to stack more trash on top, like Jenga blocks. Until finally, I tied the
bag and sat it in the middle of the kitchen floor.
My son said,
“Ma, did you want that trash taken out?”
I glared at
him and said, “Yes, Sherlock Homeboy, take the trash out.”
Etiquette
While
chatting on the phone with my mom one day, I was snacking on popcorn. My mother
paused mid-sentence and asked, “What are you doing?”
“I’m eating
popcorn.”
“Wow, sounds
to me like you’re at a manufacturing plant, banging out toys.”
And the
moral of the story…it’s not polite to eat while you’re talking on the phone.
Attention to details
While
organizing a room, I came across an old photo of my mom holding my
eighteen-year-old son, when he was nine months. I texted the photo to my son
for laughs. He laughed, then he said, “Why do you still have that same lamp?”
“Because it
still works.”
I guess I
got my money’s worth out of that lamp.
What
parenting episodes have you experienced lately?
