I had off work yesterday due to all the extra shifts I've picked up lately to help out at my job. By 3pm, my children were going insane, so I figured I would take them out to amuse them. Shawn and I loaded the crew up in the van, and headed out, first to Starbucks, then to the Grapevine Mills Mall. We walked those children all over that mall for two hours. They did wonderful, of course. No fits, no tantrums, no fighting. And we didn't even go into any kid friendly stores, just stores that interested us. I really didn't feel like letting the kids go into the toy stores there, then listening to them cry when I told them no, they could not have a toy, so we just avoided the entire situation.
Due to the midgets behaving so well, Shawn and I took them next to the bowling alley to play pool. We set up a table for the four kids to mess around on, then one for ourselves. Not even three minutes into it, Ciarabel tripped Ryker with her stick. Then the kids started beating the sticks against the ground. So we made the rule that whoever was NOT shooting at the balls had to stand against the wall and wait patiently, which everyone listened to except Ryker of course. Then Ansleigh knocked over the large coke I bought for them to share. At that point, we cleaned up the mess, made the staff refill the drink, and left. The day was going so well. Apparently putting sticks into children's hands is not a good idea, especially with a drink cocked full of sugar. I really have no clue what we were thinking. Surely every parent knows that giving children large wooden sticks and telling them they are allowed to hit things with them is a bad idea. Why this small fact escaped us is beyond me. I like to plead insanity and exhaustion from working my butt off in the past two weeks (99hrs of work) but I really think its just stupidity in its finest form. Oh well...
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