NapjunkieMom

I went to a half-day parenting workshop, and by the time I finished getting all of the kids' gear together, I had enough stuff to climb Mt. Everest (minus the oxygen and Sherpas)

It hasn't come to that, but Bobby did: disrupt the "Mat Rats" class by his usual tomfoolery, bean a girl on the head with a hard plastic toy, swipe a piece of chocolate from a little boy, and was about to swing another hard plastic toy around his head when I finally caught up with him. This all was after the morning, when, in the cold rain, he decided to lead me on a chase around the preschool parking lot. At dinner I announced I was running away to join the circus. Bobby replied, "Mommy, you don't have to run. You can just drive your car to the circus."

I can not believe that I actually said to my 3 1/2 year old child: "Do you know what persona non grata means?

Jim was using a spatula to get the last bit of chocolate pudding from the bowl. I said "You must be a chocoholic." Bobby said "Daddy, you're a chocolate bald head!"

After I found that Bobby had added close to fifty new folders in my Internet Favorites, I decided that I was going to have to supervise his computer time. That was a big disappointment, because I'd really hoped TV and the Internet would raise my children for me.

The preschool went on a field trip to a farm today. I knew I was in trouble when Bobby announced that he wanted to "set them [the horses] free."

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