Yes it was in the 80's when we arrived on Tuesday and in the (somethings) when we left on Wednesday. Cold! Crazy weather. Had no clue what to dress the kids in. Someone was always whining..I'm cold, I'm hot. To which I replied, Shaddap ya wee beasties. No, I really didn't but after 3.5 hrs in the car with various complaints I was ready to!
They were actually very good. The worst thing they did was to erase, with their hands, the special of the day on one of those restaurant chalkboards. So I marched them back in and made them tearfully apologize to the waitress.
Yeah, I know....it'd be tough to sit around the pool all day just lounging and playing with the kids wouldn't it? I bet we could force ourselves to endure it though LOL.
Quote: The worst thing they did was to erase, with their hands, the special of the day on one of those restaurant chalkboards. So I marched them back in and made them tearfully apologize to the waitress.
HP, Good for you! I wish more parents would make their kids take responsibility for their actions.
I wish more parents would do things like that. Just the other night I saw a report about a restaurant owner who would walk up to parents who had kids that were misbehaving (who weren't correcting them) and ask them to please make their children behave properly in his establishment. He would ask them nicely to do this, then if they didn't...he would nicely ask them to please leave because they were disrupting the pleasant dining environment he had worked so hard to create for his patrons.
Now, I know some people would have been terribly offended at what this Chef/Owner did, but I admired him for it. I also admire parents who correct their children when they are misbehaving and address the situation.
Now of course your wee ones weren't doing what some of the kids in this report were...what yours did is something I could see Ian doing LOL. They weren't being little monsters...just precocious kids....but you still made them own up to their behavior! What a good mom you are!
"Alpha male" I'm not, which you know is probably half my problem. And I've been so buried in my own problems lately that I haven't posted to your thread, but I have been following it every day and I wanted to say:
that I tend to agree with Blackfoot that there are a LOT of positive signs from your wife right now!
Of course, it could be rightly pointed out that "if Chocky was so good at noting positive signs, how come he never gets any?", but we'll save that for another day. I'd rather stick with what Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said once about pornography:
"I can't define it, but I know what it is when I see it."
I do think I'm seeing successful dynamics going on between you and the W lately. KEEP IT UP!!!
Choc., who wishes Mrs. Choc. would want his Alpha Bits
They had no idea what the chalkboard was for. We have a big board like that, in their playroom. So they were not acting out of malice, but I didn't care. They need to ask Mom first, always, before they decide to entertain themselves like that!
And misbehaving in restaurants is something I can't stand. For that reason, we rarely go out to eat. They can't sit still and I get no enjoyment out of a meal in which I am saying, Sit still...stop squirming..I *know* she has the red crayon, you'll just have to wait..would someone hand me a wipe? The baby just discovered the gum underneath the table...
My kids are really good, well behaved children but kids are kids, kwim?
Anyway, yeah, they were quite bothered by having to fess up to the Clam Chowder 5.95 erasure.
Oh and Hairdog, my BIL was driving and was indeed putting the pedal to the metal. I tried not to look at the speedometer or I would have gotten nervous. MrH keeps it to a respectable 70 in the interstate.
That's why they make those windows that can go up between the driver and passengers in Limos. Time to trade in that Sentra for a Limo 'Course that would have MrHP wondering.
