If there’s one thing as a mom I keep learning again and again it’s that you just can’t set your expectations too high when it comes to the fabulous family activities you plan. Case in point:
Tonight I had a fabulous Valentines family home evening all planned. We were going to have dinner, decorate and hang hearts with what we loved about each other written all over them, frost our yummy cookies and take a few cutely decorated plates around friends each of the kids chose and then partake of yummy treats ourselves.
How the night really went. Chuck got home from work 45 minutes late, consequently dinner was nice and dried out in the oven and I was a little more than slightly annoyed. Jenna looked like she was getting pink eye and spent 30 of those minutes before Chuck got home crying and wouldn’t let me put her down. Isaac and Jenna didn’t want to eat what we were having for dinner and both of them were crying about it. Samuel and Bella got in a fierce argument just before we started FHE about whose turn it was to swing on the karate belts down the basement stairs. We sent them to the “repenting” bench to work out the argument and now we had 3 kids in tears. Finally got FHE started and Chuck jokingly told Isaac he got 2 points after he blurted out an answer when Samuel had his hand raised. Samuel stormed up to his room and didn’t want to join us. I sat there dumbfounded that my fabulous fun night had turned into a chaotic mess. If I wasn’t so annoyed it would have been humorous! Needless to say we didn’t decorate hearts with our deepest sentiments for each other written down because we were all upset with each other and we didn’t decorate our cookies either. In fact we just had to cancel FHE and get ready for bed.
To top of the evening, Bella was upstairs and came running down crying and holding her nose. Chuck kept telling her it wasn’t bleeding and she finally managed to blurt out that she had stuffed a Lego crystal up her nose. I consider ourselves lucky because this is the first time we have had an object stuck up a nose. All I could think was this is just a lovely turn of events – a trip to the night clinic to remove a Lego. But the night ended well because with a lot of effort Chuck was able to get Bella to blow the Lego crystal out of her nose.
Now the kids are tucked snugly in bed and I’ve decorated and hidden their Valentines gifts for tomorrow morning. It’s nice that things are always better in the morning!
2 comments:
We have had many of those FHE's ourselves. So hillarious. We've had to have the tweezers and the flashlight up the nose with Kayla. So funny. I did that myself as a kid.
Ha! so funny
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