Parent Of The Year Award

I'm anxiously awaiting my parent of the year award, which i know i will be receiving in the mail any day now........i started out this morning with a bang. All three kids went to school crying...what a bang up job I'm doing over here!

It started out with Brother getting busted for lying. why we choose to lie over the stupidest stuff in the world is beyond me. It's not the stuff that bothers me, it's the lying. it drives me up the wall to stand there, look me in the face and lie through your teeth to me. i'm at a complete loss as to what to do with this child - he's already on restriction, work detail and had everything that can be taken away from him has been taken away. short of being on bread and water, we've run out of things to take away and it seems the more we punish him, the worse he behaves. and as i understand it, this is going to get even more fun the older he gets....gee, just can't freaking wait!!

then monkey went to school crying because mommy wouldn't let him smash his bag of goldfish to crumbs.

so sister is being really good and has been the last couple of days and has a birthday coming up. so i was asking her what she wanted to do for her birthday and she of course doesn't know but asked what we were going to do for her birthday. well, her birthday falls on her mom's weekend, so she's having a party at her mom's house on her actual birthday and then the following weekend, i'm taking her and her little friends to the Houston Children's Museum and for a day of fun. But she got all upset when she asked if her dad and i were coming to her party at her mom's and i said probably not. let the water works begin. i felt like total scum of the earth while she sat there crying that we weren't going to celebrate her birthday. the more i tried to make it better and explain, the worse it got and the more she cried.

i guess it's a blessing and a curse that we have worked so hard to include everyone in every event/celebration and kids just don't understand. I'm sure J doesn't want us at her house and I'm even more sure that's beyond weird for her friends and her husband. nothing says fun times like the x husband and his wife showing up a celebrations...at your house, with your friends and family....fun, fun.

I just never wanted the kids to be put in a situation where they had to choose one parent over another. i have friends who literally had to choose which parent they wanted at graduations, weddings, showers, etc - all the important stuff - because mom and dad were divorced and couldn't stand the sight of one another and it was just a brawl waiting to happen. i never, ever want these kids put in that situation.

and to top if off, sister's birthday falls on easter weekend and monkey and I are obligated to be at church in Lufkin and if we don't show up, there will be serious fall out from that. again, all the more reason i really wish someone would figure out how to clone me so i can be at two places at one time.

so all three kids went to school crying this morning -----way to parent!! that's why i'm the absolute best parent and just awaiting the universal parenting committee to send me my award.....