Oh the dog days of summer. Joy, peace and quiet happiness right? Then why is it that what I am hearing from the group of little people who have invaded my back yard sounds something more like this:
-Mom, there’s a bug in the pool.
-Get it!!
-I can’t get that stupid bug out it is super creepy! It’s alive!
-My towel is too small.
-These sandals hurt my feet.
-This sunscreen smells like bug spray. Pew. Wait, what does bug spray smell like again?
-The towels will not stay up in the fort!
-I don’t like my book.
-I’m hungry.
-Can’t we please go in the pool YET!
-The water is cold!
-I have to pee.
-A stupid bug bit me.
-We want the sprinkler now.
-The Elmo sprinkler cut me!
-I need a band-aid. Can I get a band-aid?
-I’m hungry.
-I don’t like this nectarine thing.
-I’m hungry.
-Mom, we really want freezies.
-Opps, I accidently took the wrong colour freezie, I forgot I don’t like this kind.
-Mom! (yes, my name is now a complaint. Sigh)
-I can’t find my baseball.
-She’s touching me!
-They started it.
-It’s our turn on the floats! The little girls are hogging them.
-I’m hungry and there’s nothing to eat.
-I don’t want to get out of the pool.
Ahh the long blissful days of summer. Magical isn’t?
Isn’t it funny that kids have no idea how lucky they are? When I was a kid we were on mothers allowance after the divorce and while my mom went back to school but although money was tight, I knew kids that had it a lot worse than me so I knew how lucky I was. Not many kids today know it but I know some parents that actually show their kids on the internet how bad some kids have it and it amazes me how their kids act different now that they know.