The Real American Dream
Today we tried to be patriotic.
We ate watermelon for lunch.
Patriotic cookies for snack.
Swimming at the YMCA.
Dinner we had beef ribs with corn on the cob and macaroni and cheese, truly an american meal.
Then tonight for dessert we had ice cream in red, white and blue sprinkled cones.
If there was an award for patriotism.. I think we would have won…
And it was …..
miserable.
Everyone was moody.
One of our children spent 25% of the day walking to time out, 65% of the day in time out, 5% of the day looking for reasons to get sent back to time out and 5% of the day talking non stop.
Both older girls had clogged up ears and couldn’t hear one single thing we asked them to do.
Princess Newbie has also learned how to scream at the top of her lungs, for any and all reasons.
Damion was tense.
I was frustrated.
misery loves company.
and to top it all off, the watermelon made us sick.
It did get better though, for awhile.
After dinner we had ice cream outside.
Then we had a family water fight followed by showers for the girls in the sprinkler.
If it would have ended there it would have been great.
But of course, the bed time routine didn’t go as smooth as we would have hoped. And Mimi, I have now taken possesion of every single nightlight and do not plan on giving them back, ever.
I think the American dream tells you that you need a perfect life based on a fairy tale. But I think that even bad days are the american dream because it’s a lot better life than most will ever have.
Thankful for my American Dream.
Nicki Woo says
Perfect and completely wonderful. In my book.
Anonymous says
Does that mean that I’m gonna be in your next book???
Nicki Woo says
Yes, that’s why I’ve been stalking you. I’m writing a book about you. I
haven’t been a stalker for the sake of it.
Courtney Crawford says
Those cookies and that ice cream looks delicious. I. want. some. 🙂
Anonymous says
I just replied to you but it didn’t post as a reply. Sigh. And it won’t let me copy and paste. Basically I’ll send you ice cream via damion, melted of course and the girls ate the
Cookies when I was not paying attention. Sorry.
Anonymous says
I’ll send you some ice cream via Damion. It might be melted. The girls raided the cookies today while I wasn’t looking and they are gone. Sorry 🙁
Kristin Holt Duncan says
Are your girls sensitive to red dye? Jamey’s an unholy terror when he has artificial dyes.. Okay, he’s a toddler terrorist on the best of days, but that’s just because he’s spoiled rotten.