Today was kind of a crappy day, both by parenting standards (I dragged Sasha down the street with no shoes on) and by kid behavior standards (he refused to put shoes on after refusing to stop yelling, "mom, mom, mom" after refusing to fold laundry after popping a bag in Jon's ear after tormenting his sister after...)
We also got a Christmas tree, and that was really exciting and special for both kids, and thus for us. When we paid, they were giving out free hot cocoa and candy canes, and Inesa blissfully sighed, "I finally get to try a candy cane." Another little boy looked at us sharply and said, "You've never had a CANDY CANE?!?" obviously thinking we were the meanest parents ever. We just grinned at him, to busy with our minty goodness to bother explaining.
I would also like to point out that all four members of our household are sleeping on clean sheets tonight. And that I spent about two hours helping both kids actually clean their rooms, as opposed to merely stuffing everything on a shelf so they can vacuum the floor like we do most weeks. And that Mama and Papa got to go to a raucous holiday party tonight, where Mama scored a bottle of vodka in the white elephant exchange. The kids were kind of jerks to grandma while we were gone, but hey. Free bottle of vodka. A reason to wear eye makeup. And since grandma got to witness them on their very worst day ever, our first day home, nothing can shock her now. (Well, I maintain that the trip home was their worst day ever, but when grandma came over to relieve us the next day so we could sleep, the kids still hadn't been to bed, so it was all one stupendously long bad day.) Plus, I remembered to be Tooth Fairy for Sasha, who had six teeth pulled Friday, so he should wake up happy tomorrow, instead of ticked off like today, when I forgot.
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