Saturday, December 27, 2008

Breakfast in bed

My husband has been telling me that I let our youngest get away with too much. I have passed it off as that he doesn't understand girls. Which to some extent is true, but unfortunately for me on the last battle he may have won. All of our kids get a drink before bed and then get sent to bed. All of them try to push it each night. I got the job of tucking kids in to bed tonight. So when Brie said she wanted a drink in bed, but said that she would get to her bed sooner, I conceded and thought nothing of it. So she gets a drink in bed, and I absentmindedly put the cup on her dresser so I can kiss and tuck her and Ali into bed. I wish them sweet dreams and turn out the light and leave the room. I'm off to tuck Trev in, that goes smoothly until I go to start turning out extra lights in the house. I hear Brie shouting something at the top of her lungs. Crap! She obviously wants something. Probably forgot one of her stuffed animals she wanted out in the living room. So I go back in, and ask her what she wants me to get her to get her to go to sleep. She says very perfunctorily "I want breakfast in bed!" hmm....so many reasons why this is not possible. I thought I would divert the question, give her stuffed snake and tell her it's name is "Breakfast in bed". She looked at me smiled and then laughed. "No mom, I want breakfast in bed". "Brie, you can't have breakfast in bed, because first of all we don't eat food in our beds."-me "Then I want soup like Trevy in bed"- Brie. "No! Sweety like I said before we don't eat food in our beds, we eat food at the table and you already had dinner. What other stuffed animal would like to sleep with?"-me "I want doll food in bed!"-Brie. Fine! So maybe I do give in too much because her doll food she got for Christmas is sitting at the very end of her bed and told her should could play with it in the morning.
PS my husband says he's thinking about a blog titled "in defense of the accusations my wife lays against me"

1 comment:

Cameron said...

When your husband creates that blog, be sure that he adds me as a writer. We can team up together, as there is strength in numbers. I think we should call it Husband Solidarity.

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