There is always pay back

This very very very fine, sunny morning, I packed all three of my kids up and sent them off to the first day of Vacation Bible School.  They all were so excited to go and do crafts and eat snacks and talk Jesus and do whatever else they do there.  As a mom, there is nothing better than kids who are excited to go, go willingly and have a wonderful time in a safe environment.

What does this mean for me?  This means I get 3 hours to myself today.  Ok, a little less becasue I have to teach swimming lessons but still, I get to go to those lessons all by myself.

On my way to pick them up, in my ohhhhh sooooo free and happy mood, I was thinking it would be nice to go out to a nice lunch and talk about camp and then go to the library together, then run a few errands and even treat them to an ice cream cone (since the last errand would be very far away).  That seemed like a really solid idea to me.

I gathered my brood, bundled them up into the car and shared with them that we are going to go out to lunch.

It was as if they each were suddenly struck down by the devil himself.  They each had there own ideas of where they wanted to eat and when they wanted to go and instead of taking turns to discuss it like calm little children they all started yelling, which turned to screaming, which turned to hitting and kicking the backs of the seats, which went on and on and on AND ON AND ON.

It is now 3:00 pm.  There has been no lunch out, no ice cream, errands have all been done in silence and a mandatory quiet time is now taking place.

Holy Mosses…what the hell happened?

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