2006
i’m the last splash
maura @ 8:28 pm
If there is one thing I would gladly outsource lately it is bedtime. The whining! The procrastinating! The desperate attempts to trap us with convoluted, exhausted almost-5-yr-old logic: “Just wait ONE second! I have something to tell you.” (Okay, Gus, tell me.) “Now, do you want me to get REALLY angry? Because I will!” (delivered in a nearly hysterical sob). Plus there is the suddenly starving situation, which magically appears at zero minutes regardless of the fact that food was offered at the ten minute mark. And if someone can please explain to me why the person who is asking for five more minutes of video games is magically too tired to brush his teeth?
Truly, we are all ready for bed by the end of it. The only good thing is that he is so tired that he passes out in 5 minutes, which is a bonus for us since we still lie down with him until he is asleep, because we are suckahs.
Time for Veronica Mars, prerecorded (and commercial-free!) for our pleasure. Wahoo!
2 comments on “i’m the last splash”
I am glad to hear it’s not just us! My neighbor (who has an 11 yr old) was telling us recently about an old movie she watched: in it the kids came to the living room, all ready for bed, and said “goodnight Mother and Father” and took themselves up to bed! We all laughed and laughed. I guess it was a different childhood world in the 50s.
“My tummy hurts!”
“I’m hungry!”
“Can I have something to drink?”
“I have to use the bathroom! Can you turn on the light?”
“I have a question for you!” [“I have a question for you: why aren’t you in bed?”]
“I can’t sleep!”
“I don’t want to go to school tomorrow!”
“I’m not tired!”
“My butt itches!”
“Is Daddy home yet?”
“Can I read one very very short book to myself?”
“I’m thirsty!”
“These sheets are scratchy!”
“Can I get a stuffed animal?”
(these are just a few I could think of off the top of my very tired head!)