Friday Fragments

I'm participating in Friday Fragments with Half Past Kissin' Time.  Pop on over to join in the fun or check out some other fragments for the week!

I'd like to start out with saying a big THANKS to Mrs. 4444!  She chose one of my fragments last week as her favorite!

Now on to this weeks fragments:

*A note to others: please stop looking down your nose at others. You really have no room to judge.

*A note to other moms: some of us work, some of us don’t work. We can still co-exist peacefully in the same world. (See my blog post  Mommy Wars for further explanation of this note)

*A note to my husband: when you punish one of your children with an early bedtime it is advisable that you actually pay attention to the time and follow through. Don’t rely on your wife to look at the clock and then get mad when said child is late to bed. It is also advisable that if you don’t want your wife angry at you that you don’t pour yourself a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios while dinner is still going on, then head to the bag of M&M’s and wonder why your children aren’t eating the dinner that is in front of them.

*A note to the middle child: yes, there are consequences for your actions. The sooner you learn this and respond accordingly the happier we will ALL be! We don’t hate you (as you love to accuse us), we are not ganging up on you, and we do not favor the other kids in the house. Everyone here has the same rules to follow with the same consequences for breaking them!

*I’m really glad the kids went back to school yet I must admit I enjoyed the “down time” of not running to all of our usual activities.

*I felt really bad for my son when he came home from school looking very dejected. He announced he “had a very rough day” to quote him. His class was very noisy and she took away their holiday party (delayed from before Christmas due to snow breaks) and it broke his little heart. She did the same thing at Halloween time. I told him that his teacher hates parties and looks for any excuse to not have them. (hey, it’s kind of true and I can’t defend the teachers all the time when my kid needs some cheering up!)

*My 5 year old daughter came home from dance class and when I told her to go upstairs and change, she said to me “yeah, then I can relax. I haven’t had any time to relax today” (in her oh so sweet tone of voice). My husband and I shot looks over her head trying to conceal laughter and I just bent over and gave her a huge hug. She will never know how cute she sounded at that moment.

*Today my children are having “holiday” parties that got snowed out the week before Christmas. Well 2 of them anyway, (see note above). Really, wouldn’t it have been fine to just move on and get back into ACTUAL SCHOOL WORK? I swear it’s been forever since they have actually learned anything. Since when is school supposed to be fun?

*I actually exercised three times this week. Perhaps hell really is freezing over and that is why it has been so bitter cold outside! Sorry folks.