It starts innocently:
Ender: I sorry, Daddy!
Sean: Um… why are you sorry, Ender?
Ender: I am sorry. I peed on your sheet. And now I sorry.
Sean: You peed on my sheet? Like, the sheet on my bed?
Ender: I did. I am sorry. Mama giving you a new sheet right now.
Sean: Oh, good.
Ender: I also peed on your pillow.
And I can’t tell you what Sean said next.
But I can tell you what Cinder said a little later when:
Ender: I! PEED!
Cinder: Yeah, so did I, Ender. Y’a know what the difference is? I peed in the toilet.
Ender: I peed on your foot.
Cinder: I know!
And then, their mother had a bit of a struggle with a project and:
Jane: Fuck, fuck, fuck!
Cinder: What’s wrong?
Jane: I’m just having a really hard time focusing on my work.
Cinder: I’m having a really hard time getting this Minecraft mod to work properly. Want to swear together?
And then, there was a horrible, horrible conference call, and the mother lost all moral high ground and self-restraint:
Jane (on telephone to editor): Fucking hell, I don’t fucking believe this==the [bleep bleep bleeps], they’re just [bleep bleep bleep], they’re [bleep bleep] and taking it in the [bleeeeeeep]…
Cinder (on extension): I’d like to apologize for my mother’s language. She’s having a very bad day.
[five minutes later]
Jane (to Sean): And then they [bleeeeeeeeeeep]…
Flora to Cinder: Wow, that was a new one. Are you taking notes?
Cinder: You bet.
It was, may I say in my defence, an exceedingly difficult day.
But I survived.
Although the children are probably permanently scarred.
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Oh no!!! Not the pillow too!
Oh Jane this sounds like yesterday here for me. I swear having two kids potty trained is like taking a walk though hell. Emma peed her pants in the bathroom after she got back from pre-school, because she was holding it to the very last second. So, I too had a river to clean up. And then Lily decided to poop in her pull-up last night, which wouldn’t have been so bad, if she didn’t try to change herself! Yup, I hate potty training!!
learning when and how to swear appropriately is an important life lesson. 🙂
LOL. That was hilarious! I love the potty mouth mom!
I love your children 😉
Me too! 🙂
Hilarious, in a totally shit day kind of way. We just had the f bomb conversation. And my oldest informed me it is also the French word for seal. Kids are so smart 😉
Oh, I’m so happy to know that I’m not the only one who does this on occasion! Sorry you had a rough day…and the pee on the pillow would have put me over the edge from the start. Very funny though! 🙂
Oh! I loved this!!! I love that you aren’t one of those moms who doesn’t swear around your kids. This just makes you more fantastic that I already think you are. 🙂
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Oh, you made me giggle, almost hysterically, after a hard day. Thank you. Very much enjoying your blogs, having just discovered them.
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