How much longer ’till school starts?
My children are definitely becoming preteens. They no longer involve me every time one annoys the other.
After living with these kids for ten years, I’m never surprised when I find something in the toilet after they leave the bathroom. That *something* is usually of an organic nature and a quick, “Get in here and flush!” solves the problem.
When I noticed my oldest son’s toothbrush suctioned to the side of the bowl this morning, it took every ounce of energy I had not to laugh out loud.
I called Youngest into the lavatory.
“This is not okay,” I said.
“He called me stupid,” Youngest said.
I gave him my *disappointed* look for a few seconds.
“You told me to solve conflicts myself,” he said with a sigh.
Youngest was made to clean the bowl and the brush. But not before I took a picture.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’d vote for a pro-life, right-wing, fundamentalist, teabagging Republican who is president of the Mel Gibson Fan Club and fucking Sarah Palin on a regular basis if he’d guarantee year-round schooling by next summer break.
Wouldn’t even have to think about it.
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OMG THAT IS BLOODY BRILLIANT!!! OF COURSE I DONT KNOW WHO THE YOUNGEST IS BUT TELL HIM THAT HE CRACKS ME UP!!!
lmao!!
That is so funny! The toothbrush part not the year round schooling! Year round schooling …. so not funny to this grade 2/3 teacher!
It’s a really good thing Ron installed those low boy toilets so many years ago. Cause that could have been even MORE ewwww…
Still funny, though.
Your ONLY saving grace???? There was no internet or public forums for your Mom to advertise your dialog and iPhone photo evidence when we were their age. If there was? Well, I’ll just leave that up to your imagination. I’m sure the boy’s future wives and your grandchilren’s Mother’s will be happy to have this ammunition. Then again, who says in 20 years the internet and current computers wont be like 8-tracks and cassettes are now. It will happen.
My Mom would have made me sterilize that toothbrush then preach about how much toothbrushes are (apparently a nickle when she was young). Of course, adding the milage she had to walk to school. In the snow. With borrowed shoes, during the war, sugar was rationed and the only game she had involved some sort of can or stick. Simpler times, I’m sure but you couldn’t tell the world in less than 3 seconds when your kid dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. That’s just fucking awesome and we (by the skin of our teeth) lucked out by missing that internet connection between birth and 20. We are lucky, lucky girls.
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