"Hello"
"Mom?" (Spoken in hushed tones, hiding from Greg no doubt)
"Yes Owen."
"Mom, dad is being mean. He says I have to clean the playroom before i play with my friends."
"I am sorry dear, try to work it out and I will be there soon."
You could really insert any problem or event, mean or not mean, above in Owen's very anti-climatic description of why Greg is mean.
I loved the call the other day while I was at work and Greg stayed home with the kids:
"Hello."
"Mom?"
"Yes Owen."
"I don't like when dad is home from work and here after school. He doesn't even know our schedule and how things work. "
"Why do you say that, what happened?"
"I usually get home from school and you ask me how my day went and I say fine then I ask if I can play and you say yes. Dad didn't do that. I got home and he said play the piano. He didn't even ask about my day. When are you coming home?"
I laughed my head off inside and told Owen that must have been horrible and I was heading home then.
Tonight however, the drama got better. I got home from boot camp and Owen said, "dad was mean tonight". Then he got a big smile on his face and ran away. He brought back a black notebook and explained it was his notebook where he writes down things about Greg being mean (I totally just laughed out loud when I typed that while lying in bed with sleeping kids).
It is appropriately titled "Dad being mean book".
He explained that he goes off in a corner and writes in it. It had two entries.
Page 1- autumn is nice dad is mean mom is gone ivy is good.
Page 2- dad is not letting me ride cars I want to ride my car.
I just totally laughed out loud again.
It was bad enough for Greg to be told on for everything that happened and now it will be documented in a book. (And quite honestly, I cannot wait to read the next entry. )
My son says he is going to be a policeman when he grows up, he totally is.
1 comment:
That is hilarious!!!!!! I laughed out loud too :)
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