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My Kids are Idiots: Volume II | Print |  E-mail
Written by Joeprah   
 
on Friday April 18, 2008
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I love my kids.  They rule.  Sometimes though, they push my buttons.  You know, like when you just got done cleaning the house and they run through with mud on their shoes.  Well, mine would never do that out of fear for their lives.  The things they do are subtle and yet still very destructive. They plant little 'bombs' all around the house for me to find, and most often I find these 'bombs' when its too late.  That sufficiently sets the picture I believe.

Enter my middle child. She is artsy and likes to do her own thing.  She is as sweet as they come but forgets what you tell her the second you say it because she is thinking about other things in her head.  Anyways, she made me a picture the other day out of a flower from her dance recital bouquet , tape and some of her heralded imagination.  The only problem was she never actually gave me the picture--that plus she modified the reverse side of the picture (see below).   

Flowers Taped to Paper
 
 When I picked up the paper, I saw the flower petals on the front and thought to myself, "Ah, so creative."  Then I saw like, oh--I dunno--500 ants scurying around under the lifted picture.  I also noticed that the paper was abnormally heavy, almost weighted somehow.  Upon flipping the paper I saw what had been causing both the sea of ants and added  weight.  My daughter had been eyeing up a Cadbury Egg and apparently got the nerve to take it with out permission.  She chopped it in half and stuck it to the paper where it stayed like it was rubber cemented (ironically, this is how she sat in her time out chair).  A)  Don't take daddies Cadbury Eggs, and B) Do not invite ants into my domain, either offense is timoutable (wrd? sp?) but together it makes for nasty cocktail of jumping jacks and a lengthy timeout.  Respect.

 

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Posted by Caila611, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Registered
Oh yuck!!! I hate ants too! I have found many a bananna stuck to toys or school papers. EWWW! My favorite it a cereal bar on the bottom of my sock with little fruit flys flying around it! YUCK!
 
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Posted by Huckdoll, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Registered
*chills* 
 
Nightmarish. No love for the bugs.
 
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Posted by Mr Lady, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Guest
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!
 
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Posted by Christine @ Serenity How?, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Registered
Oh yuck. The lesson is learned now. Let's hope it's "don't eat Dad's candy" and not "eat the whole thing to avoid leaving evidence" - I feel for ya. 
 
My kids have been tracking the whole beach, playground, anything with sand into the house lately. That would be fine if I needed the wood floor sanded, but I don't. I've been looking into those outdoor showers for the side of the house. No passing go until you're clean. Hose water is pretty cold though. How's that for anal retentive? 
 
I'm comment babbling, which must mean my buttons have been pushed to the max. UGH.
 
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Posted by BossSanders, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Registered
Yo. Are you sure you aren't seeing things? I didn't see any ants. 
 
And, I would like to know how you instill the fear of Joe into someone. I'd very much like to use your methods to instill fear into my husband next time he decides to walk across just-vacuumed carpet with wet, grassy shoes. 
 
Just sayin'
 
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Posted by SWC, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Guest
:eek BUGS!!!!! Ants are yucky!
 
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Posted by Lyrics of My Life, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Registered
"Timeoutable" is SO my new favorite word!!! :grin
 
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Posted by kathy, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Guest
Man, I totally missed the Cadbury eggs this Easter. It hurts my heart to see it displayed in such a fashion. Doesn't your daughter know about wasting, and that their are people in other parts of the world dying for a Cadbury egg. Will you put her in time out again just because I would have eaten the other half of that egg...minus the ants.
 
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Posted by BusyDad, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Guest
If it wasn't a word, it IS now. Because I am going to add that into my daily roster of parenting words. So is hiding the half cadbury egg under the picture the equivalent of flushing your coke down the toilet when the cops bust down your door? Well, not "your" as in me or you, of course.
 
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Posted by BusyDad, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Guest
If it wasn't a word, it IS now. Because I am going to add that into my daily roster of parenting words. So is hiding the half cadbury egg under the picture the equivalent of flushing your coke down the toilet when the cops bust down your door? Well, not "your" as in me or you, of course.
 
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Posted by motherwise, on Saturday April 19, 2008 , , Guest
I almost cried at the loss of a good half of a Cadbury egg. That alone is grounds for punishment around my house.
 
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Posted by zoesdad, on Sunday April 20, 2008 , , Registered
Timeoutable--- 
 
Yep. It's a word. I just asked my kids to give me an example of a timeoutable offense and they said juicesplillingbecasueyouwerepl ayingatthetable. So I've got to believe timeoutable is a word.
 
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Posted by Tara R., on Sunday April 20, 2008 , , Guest
Awww... that is so sweet... on so many levels. We have fire ants, stinging fire ants, in Florida. I'd rather have Cadbury ants. :p
 
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Posted by Heather, on Monday April 21, 2008 , , Guest
i have to give her credit for trying to hide it though :p
 
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Posted by Lisa, on Monday April 21, 2008 , , Guest
At least she didn't try to stuff it behind the couch cushions. That was a favorite when I was a kid. :zzz
 
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Posted by Kim, on Monday April 21, 2008 , , Guest
:eek Yikes.. I HATE ants.. well bugs in general. I had something happen like that last week.. except it was little ants carrying chips.. :)
 
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Posted by Heather, on Tuesday April 22, 2008 , , Guest
I have to apologize. I'm sure that was a totally wonderful post, from reading the comments. But once I read that you clean the house, I was whisked away to a fairytale world where men clean houses and I couldn't read the rest of your post. I will try again when I return from my fairytale land. I will have to remember to skip the first couple of sentences, or I will fall into the same trap.
 
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Posted by Corey~ Living and Loving, on Wednesday April 23, 2008 , , Registered
oh man....you are such a squasher of creativity. geezzzzzzzzzz......buzz kill for sure.
 
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Posted by Geoffrey M. Gardner, on Wednesday April 23, 2008 , , Guest
My five year old son threw half a chocolate easter bunny behind the couch- same result.  
 
One or two bugs at a time I can handle... swarms are different. Haha! 
 
Geoff 
http://hollywoodriot.com
 
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Posted by Momo Fali, on Thursday April 24, 2008 , , Registered
Forget the ants! I'm be furious about my Cadbury Egg. They're my favorite...and that's really saying something, because I'm an equal opportunity chocolate eater.
 
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