juicebox's have feelings dontcha know...

*I never seize to be amazed at what my kids teach me each and every day. I found out last Sunday that juicebox's have feelings..thank God I found that out and will stop crushing them before recycling! They could be screaming and I didn't know....I hang my head in shame.... What...you didn't know this either...?? Let me tell you how we found this out. We went for a relaxing Sunday drive - after threatening the life of my oldest if she didn't get into the G.D. car RIGHT NOW and NO she can't stay home by herself. Part of why it was relaxing was the silence- both kids hated me at that moment and were ignoring me....sometimes I like that ;) it means I can hear my own thoughts for a period of time. So anyway we stopped at a few small country stores and at one we bought YD a coke in an old fashioned bottle- very small with a big price- $2 but coke does taste great in the bottle. Mini-me doesn't like pop (yep she's weird we have tried forcing it on her for years but nope) so she didn't get a drink. On our way home she asked YD if she could drink the juicebox she had brought since she had the coke. YD said NO...well we insisted she hand it over- she got a treat the least she could do was let her older sister have a warm juicebox. Fast forward tons of arguing and screaming and YD putting the straw under her butt and farting so Mini-me wouldn't use it and then guzzling the juicebox herself as fast as she could so her sister couldn't have a drop. We were very disappointed in her selfishness and told her so. She explained in a righteous tone that the juicebox was special to her....it had feelings and they meant a lot to each other....I will give you a moment to take that in....wow. She explained that all things created by God have feelings (I should say we had talked about this before and we had talked about all LIVING things having feelings) to which my Main Man said 'For the love of G..JUICEBOXES DO NOT HAVE FEELINGS'. YD erupted in angry tears and told my Main Man 'thanks for CRUSHING my hopes and beliefs dad!!!!!'. I couldn't say anything as I was laughing so hard inside it gave me a hernia. I think it's fantastic how she uses her imagination to justify everything she says and does in her life so it's someone else's fault..she could be a great politician or at least in PR..

This is the newest member of our family. Interesting stains on his face eh... thankfully it's not nicotine- he gave up smoking a few weeks back...just a tell tale sign he ate my flowers..sigh...