Normal school-day morning at the Johnson house
7 am Sally sneaks out to the living room and turns on Curious George on PBS.
7:30 am Mom shuffles out and tells Sally to turn off the TV and get dressed. No response.
7:45 am Mom shuffles between stove and Spot’s high chair, and tells Sally to turn off the TV, get dressed and come eat breakfast, now. No response.
8 am Mom shuffles between Susan and Spot, and tells Sally to turn off the TV, get dressed, come eat breakfast and make her lunch, or else. No response.
8:15 am Mom shuffles between Dick rushing out the door and Susan needing hands washed, and tells Sally to turn off the TV, get dressed, come eat breakfast, make her lunch and pack her backpack or she might as well not go to school. No response.
8:30 am Mom (having drunk most of a Mountain Dew by this time), yells at Sally to turn off that &!@# TV and get her tookey in gear. School starts at 8:40, and it’s a 10-minute drive.
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This morning at the Johnson house
7:30 am Mom shuffles out to find Sally completely dressed and having already eaten, made a lunch and packed her backpack; she’s even packed her extra change of clothes as per Miss Ruffin’s instructions. Apparently, today (second-to-last day of school) is outside water play day and Sally can’t wait to get there.
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where are this kid’s priorites? I totally thought you were gonna say she did all this because Tom was finally home. I suppose water trumps everything. Avery is so great!
That soooooooooooooo sounds like our house. The first part, I mean. The other day I almost let Olivia go to preschool hungry because she wouldn’t come for lunch. I gave in and gave her a bag of cheerios to munch on in the car–figured it was a little bit of a punishment not getting a better meal and her milk. She was still as happy to get Cheerios!
When Olivia’s in the mood to not pick up her toys even a trip to play miniature golf where there is a princess castle sometimes cannot move her.
this is why we moved the tv to our bedroom a few weeks ago.
um, miniature golf wouldn’t motivate me to walk across the room. can little kids even really golf?
olivia loves the idea of it–especially when adam calls the castle there a princess castle. i don’t think we’ve ever really been. he called home one time and said we should take the kids. he told olivia over the phone we could go if she cleaned up her toys i’d been trying to get her to clean up. when he got home they still weren’t clean so she didn’t get to go.
btw, my great gunny bag system now–did i already mention this?–is that when she doesn’t clean up and the gunny bag gets stuff the next day she gets 10 toys to play with. if she cleans those up she gets 10 more the next day to add to her first 10 and so on.