Conversations With My Sons
Evening. Time for bed.
Mom: Let's go, 'Pet. Let's put on your 'jamies.
Eli (jumping in the middle of the big bed): No!
Mom: C'mon, 'Pet. I'll read you a story, then we'll drink milk. But first you have to put on your 'jamies.
Eli (still jumping while evading Mom's grasp): No!
Mom (nearly falls over the bed trying to catch Eli): Please, 'Pet.
Eli (piles pillows on top of one another and gallops away on his makeshift horse): No! No! No! Heee-yaaah!
Mom (exasperated): Elijah, don't you love Mommy anymore?
Eli: No!
Mom (losing her temper): You suplado, you!
Eli: 'Plado! You!
(proceeds to plant his fist on Mom's face)
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Evening. Homework time.
Woog (busy opening his notebooks at the table): Teacher says I have to write 5 things about you, Mom.
Mom (busy typing on the PC behind him): Ok.
Woog (writing): Mom is....how do you spell “beautiful”, Mom?
Mom (preening): b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.
Woog (still writing): Mom has curly hair.
Mom: Mmm-hmm.
Woog (still writing): Mom is fat.
Mom: *snort*
Woog (still writing): Mom loves me.
Mom: And you had better remember that!
Woog (still writing): Mom is....Mom is....Mom is kind.
Mom: Excuse me? I think you should tell the truth.
Woog: But I don't know what else to write.
Mom: Write “Mom is strict.”
Woog: But Mom....I want to write “Mom is kind”.
Mom: I'll whup you.
(pause)
Woog: How do you spell “strict”?
11 comments:
hi there...that is a kind thought you left in my blog... thank you..you have two beautifuls boys too and im enjoying the posted conversation with your boys. i love it.
Just a note also that i am so impressed by your blog. You are blessed. Ciao Bella!!!
that has got to be the sweetest and at the same time funniest adult-kid convo Ive read in quite a while. reminds of how I was with my mom.. *sighs*
ps
thank you very much for the comments on my photography. ;-)
lol... i remembered a similar exchange many years ago when my middle son said, "ma, i know a-hia's (kuya in chinese) crush." and then the eldest promptly said "don't tell!"
middle son said: "i won't! just the 1st letter of the name"
"ma.... does katrina start with a c or a k?"
toinks!
ka sadya sa inyo, a. maka relate gid ko sa imo.I really want to be a sweet, kind, sugary mom, but I'm not. I'm like the mean gradeschool teacher who couldn't internalize all the psychology classes she took in college.
malyth - thank you, too.
Valentine - I believe we all had those kinds of conversations with our parents. Now, its payback time. Hrhrhrhr.
Linnor - that is just so funny! Huli agad!
chiqui - administering tough love does make you feel guilty, especially if, like me, you don't know how to raise them any differently. *sigh*
Did he really submit the "Mom is fat" description of you? He he.
Merry Christmas Dondi!
monaco - indeed, he did. The truth shall set you free...from continuing to harbor my excess fat, anyway. Hrhrhrhr!!!
Merry Christmas to you, too! God bless!
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hahahahaha....love it
wonder why you're not blogging anymore. miss your stories with your kid. lol
hahaha! the last part really made me laugh... u have smart kiddos :)
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