11/10/2022
Perfect example of what I deal with on a daily basis as a single mom to my kids. So today my 13 year old son (who is by far the biggest we will say character in our house) came running up stairs with his arms completely full of snacks. When I say snacks I mean he had SNACKS lol. He had beef jerky, candy, ice cream sandwiches, chips, snack cakes, and pop. His arms were completely full. Now he knows the rule in our house is you can have a snack after school but only 1 and you have to ask before you get it. So when I see him running upstairs with all of this I ask him........." What do you think you're doing with all of that?" With a big grin on his face he immediately without ever skipping a beat looks at me and says......." You know how you've always told us kids as long as it makes us happy, we are not hurting others, and it's not illegal, we can be whatever we want to be when we grow up?" I responded with......."Ok but what could that possibly have to do with you having all of these snacks right now?" Which my son grinning ear to ear says to me. "I've figured out what I want to be when I'm older." "I've decided as of right now I want to be Fat when I grow up, and you also said that if we want to try something we should go for it because it doesn't mean it has to be set in stone we can always change our minds as long as we give it our best effort." "So I'm going to give this my best effort by eating all of these delicious snacks right now, but don't worry because I have a feeling I'll want to try something different tomorrow." I said yeah well.........umm........well.......umm...... you're not funny and you need to go put all of those snacks back before I decide I want to give my best effort at being childless." As he walks back in his room from putting all of the snacks back I hear his brother who's 10 cracking up and his 16 year old sister yell "that was awesome I was really hoping you were gonna get away with that one, I wish I would have thought of that myself." I go back in my room and think to myself this little......**** Where do these kids come from these days? This little kid just cornered me using my own words of encouragement against me!! Wtf do you do with that??
