Twitter is the only diary I’ve kept longer than two days. Somehow the limit of 140 characters appeals to my distractedness, even invites it.
So, here we go…
Saturday Morning:
Saturday Afternoon:
Sunday, Early Afternoon:
Sunday, Mid Afternoon:
Sunday, Moments Later:
Sunday, Later:
You may be wondering what’s in these updates for you. Well, let me tell you. Here are five parenting tips I’m leaving you with, courtesy of my weekend:
- Twitter is an excellent way to keep track of your parenting inadequacies.
- Kids who can read are kind of a pain in the #$%^.
- Bribery is an excellent strategy for making your kids do what you want.
- Shovels are weapons.
- Mandarin oranges are craft worthy.
In 140 characters or less (or even more), how was your weekend? Any take-home lessons from those events?
Awesome! Hey, I have my entire mantle lined with mandarin-orange pumpkins. They are the cutest things ever!
You and Vivian are brilliant. I just sit on my butt…
Syphilis. Only one ‘L’. I know the word well. Professionally I mean.
Ha. Those double consonants always kill me. Better that than the disease, I suppose.
When your daughter says, ” Hey mom, come here, I want to show you something” I need to make sure I have a full stomach first. Or empty. I can’t decide. Scratch that…just ask what it is first and if she won’t tell you, ask her to take a picture (a pile of ear wax crayons are not nearly as gooey in photo as in real life).
Ahh!
Did that babysitter lop off fingertips for misbehavior? If so, can I get her number?
It’s a Canadian tradition.
Love Pinterest for ideas! I don’t go on it very often since it sucks me into its vortex and I never know when I’ll be spat out!
I have a love-hate relationship with Pinterest. We’re working on it.
Kids don’t understand Daylight Savings Time.
Personally, I find the adding/subtracting by one more challenging than solving a quadratic equation.
Love the tips! #4 could be revised in my house of boys to “EVERYTHING is a potential weapon.”
My weekend in 140 characters or less?
When family says I get a writing weekend, they mean 5 hours wedged b/t shoving them out the door & doing their laundry when they return. :/
Oh. That sucks. A day is never a day, is it? Maybe your pen should become your weapon. 😉
“Mandarin oranges are craft worthy.”
Love that. What if you don’t have oranges? Or anything with a thick skin? What would you recommend? Because that’s where I am right now. 😉
No oranges? Bananas! 😉