Thursday, June 24, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Flames
This week was a strange one. Amidst all the repairs we have been making summer life rolls along. I managed to find a new cell phone and Dave fixed the upstairs toilet just in time for the kids to break it again. Guess what he is doing this weekend?
Our home phone and internet were down this week so I felt a little cut off. I am down to about 1 major meltdown a day, but yesterday I had 2. First Seth locked us out of the house. We have to break in through one of the windows. Fortunately everyone was with me and we could get in without calling a locksmith. We have been tell Seth not to lock doors since he got here. There is something about the mechanism or the fact that you can't open it, or something that appeals to him, because despite numerous disciplinary actions, he still locks them. Maybe I yelled loud enough to get something through to him yesterday.
Later that day I discovered that one of the boys had not closed the freezer Wednesday night when he had put something away. This is our large storage freezer. The first shelf and the door were entirely melted as were several items on the other shelves. This when I had my second emotional breakdown. As I was fussing over the fact that they can't be trusted with anything, and I have go check behind them with everything, Joel is his calm sweet voice said "Mom sometimes I feel like you are going to burst into flame."
That gave me pause. I said "Joel, sometimes I feel like that too!". We laughed and managed to have a good evening.
Our home phone and internet were down this week so I felt a little cut off. I am down to about 1 major meltdown a day, but yesterday I had 2. First Seth locked us out of the house. We have to break in through one of the windows. Fortunately everyone was with me and we could get in without calling a locksmith. We have been tell Seth not to lock doors since he got here. There is something about the mechanism or the fact that you can't open it, or something that appeals to him, because despite numerous disciplinary actions, he still locks them. Maybe I yelled loud enough to get something through to him yesterday.
Later that day I discovered that one of the boys had not closed the freezer Wednesday night when he had put something away. This is our large storage freezer. The first shelf and the door were entirely melted as were several items on the other shelves. This when I had my second emotional breakdown. As I was fussing over the fact that they can't be trusted with anything, and I have go check behind them with everything, Joel is his calm sweet voice said "Mom sometimes I feel like you are going to burst into flame."
That gave me pause. I said "Joel, sometimes I feel like that too!". We laughed and managed to have a good evening.
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