Kid Quotes 4

I wouldn't if I were you.

31. Overheard song in our house today:
"Popeye the red nosed..." (brief pause) "... what did he do?"
So sad.

32. The brothers objecting to Sarah wearing makeup. I ask what they're going to do when she dates. They tell me they will kill whoever tries. And it begins....poor girl has no idea what she's in for.

33. Brian: We're out of toilet paper.
Me: We are?
Brian: This is almost as bad as being out of milk.
Me: Almost? It's not worse?
Brian: Don't be ridiculous. It's not like the world's going to end.
I'm beginning to grasp the extent of horror certain people experience at the prospect of a household without milk.

34. I come home from the grocery store and the kids came out to get the groceries (or so I thought) but instead of hauling them in they just stood there looking through what I got. I finally said, "Stop sight seeing and take them in!" Then one of them says, "But they're so pretty."
At least I now know what these guys think is aesthetically pleasing.

35. Why must I be subjected to things like fake jelly fish (and eerily life like at that too) made from glue hanging from my lamp? Boys and boredom reap strange results.

36. Ham gravy, in this house, seems to inspire such extraordinary behavior. This year they wanted to pour it into their water goblets and have it in lieu of a beverage. I've found this fascination with the stuff baffling over the years but I was informed yesterday that ham gravy tastes like bacon. Bacon that you can pour all over your plate and dip stuff in. Mystery solved.

37. There's evidence of FHE all over the living room. Scriptures scattered around, hymnals everywhere, papers doodled on...a broken lamp... They learn something in all this right?

38. Upon decorating for Christmas and my sister complimenting an idea of mine I said: I may be a total idiot about most things but I do know how to decorate.
Sister: Your supposed to say positive things about yourself and not talk about yourself the way your kids see you.

39. Richard: "... gluten free is becoming a fad diet - a lot of people are choosing to eat that way even though they don't have to."
Benjamin: "IDIOTS!"
James: "That IS really bizarre!"
I guess having a choice in the matter makes a difference.
Editors note:James and Benjamin have Celiac's disease

40.  Sarah's been running around today shooting things with nerf guns and looking like a nerf version of rambo. She's such a funny combination of girly girl and tom boy.

Kid Quotes 3

Olivia and Aaron

Picking up where I left off last time: 

21.

Different kid: I'm hungry for fruit.

Me: Have some kiwi... and PEEL IT!

Same different kid: Why?

I'm raising a bunch of cave men.

22. One of my kids was late for school so I write a note.

Kid: Don't write that!

Me: It's the truth. You want me to tell the truth don't you?

Kid: Yes, but tell a different truth.

I end up writing something vague and incomprehensible.

23. "All I know about presidential candidates is something about some McDonald guy."
-Anonymous to protect the guilty.

24. One of my kids calls herbal tea boiled weeds.

25. A new phrase has been coined: 'obesity sauce'. A very good description of Alfredo sauce in general.

Although I notice giving it a more appropriate name hasn't slowed down the consumption of said sauce.

26. You know you're getting old when you have to read the captions on 'before and after' pictures to see which ones were 'before' and which ones were 'after'. (okay, so that was me too.)

27. After I protest over one of my kids being self deprecating:

Kid # 1: He's always making fat jokes about himself.

Kid # 2: Hey! I need my fat jokes! It keeps me from getting too depressed about my weight.

Kid # 3: I'm not so sure fat pride is the answer to your weight problems.

28. Bunnies never have bad breath. You were all dying to know that. 

29. I tend to tune into and out of conversations while I'm doing stuff. Then I end up hearing weird snippets.

Kid #1 "... this is why we need a new toaster oven."

Kid #2 (in a mock threatening tone) "And that's why you're going to need a new kidney."

I didn't even ask.

30. Me: Hey! Who got out my juice? Who's been drinking my juice?

Brian: It's cranberry raspberry mom, cranberry raspberry.

Me: That doesn't mean you can just invite yourself to drink my juice. I don't want you drinking my juice.

Brian: Then you should have built a temple with booby traps around it.

So that's what you have to do to keep people out of your food in this house.

Kid Quotes 2

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Oh hi! It's been awhile. I have this pesky habit of forgetting that I blog. Anyway, here's the next edition of kid quotes. 

11. I hear a cry of pain from the kitchen. Then I hear someone say in an anguished voice, "You're worth it."

My son comes in the room eating a popsicle. "My popsicle fell in the garbage, but I decided to eat it anyway.

"I hope you rinsed it off first," I say.

He says, "But that would waste some popsicle."

12. 

We were discussing the horrors of shots.

Me: When you were little you told me not to tell you when you were getting allergy shots. You told me to surprise you with them so you wouldn't be wigging out the whole way. The problem is, you learned how to get there and recognized where we were going.

Kid: You were supposed to change how you went! Don't you know how stressful wigging out is?

13. 

After crashing my blog a few times, accidentally deleting the entire thing (good thing I'd been reading about backing things up lately), and locking myself out of administrative capabilities, I've decided to quit blogging, writing and anything remotely related to technology and run away to join the circus.

Either that or I'll have to go buy some shoes. (sigh, yes, also me)

14. Waking the girl up in the morning is not an easy job. Unless, as I found out this morning purely by coincidence, you mention the word 'brownie'. Suddenly, the head pops up and someone's wide awake, which makes me think I'm doing this all wrong. What I ought to be doing is wafting a chocolate bar under her nose each morning.

15. Kid: We're out of milk.
Me: Eh, we have bread and water, there's still plenty to eat.
The day passes. Evening comes.
Kid: The bread's gone. Now we're out of prison food AND milk.

16.

Me: Be sure you're washing all the pans you cook with.

Kid: You know what we need? Paper pans.
Me: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Kid: Mother! You're supposed to support my creatvity!

So that's what I've been doing wrong all these years. Advocating common sense over creativity.

17. Kid#1: What is it about pizza? Everyone on the planet loves pizza.

Kid#2: Not everyone. You get those weirdos at school who go around saying they don't like pizza. I don't know why they didn't get bullied.

18.

My kid has plantar warts. We go to the dermatologist. They scrape his feet with a razor blade. They freeze them. They inject them. He sits there as if nothing is going on. We get in the car; run errands. He gets out of the car.

A blob of cold slushy wet snow hits his leg. He screams like a girl.

19.

Kid: Hey! Why is my toast burned? I set it lower than usual!

Me: maybe the toaster is dying they get that way near the end sometimes.

Kid: That is not okay. I don't want my bread molested.

20. Kid: There's something off about this kiwi.
Me: Yeah it still has a peel on it.
Kid: No. It's really sweet.
Me: AND it has a peel on it!
Kid: More fiber, Mom.