Oh god

[conuly]

The kids cut up one of their hammocks. With safety scissors. They weren't in their room more than ten minutes (and almost certainly less) when I found this out.

I can't walk, and I sat on the floor in the kitchen and screamed. 20 seconds later my mom rushed up the stairs, convinced somebody was dying.

I have literally no idea what on earth possessed them to do something so utterly stupid as that. It would never, ever, in my wildest dreams have occurred to me that after they cleaned their room, and my mom checked it over for them (I couldn't walk there, remember), that they couldn't be alone in there a few minutes while I put together dessert.

It was a good dinner, too. Salmon balls and an apricot dipping sauce, with chard and red pepper on the side (a bit underdone, I'm afraid), and eggplant on the *other* side, and a salad with pasta, cucumber, purslane, and my standard peanut sauce with a garnish of grated radishes. And a little beet, because why not. Dessert, which I didn't have (I ought to) was/is watermelon and corn with a lime sauce.

Couldn't enjoy it as much as all that because the children are in total and utter disgrace and grounded until the end of the week.

It's apparently fixable. I wouldn't know. All I saw was carnage, I didn't hang around to see more. I was too busy collapsing in a heap and screaming. And do you know what Ana had the nerve to say to my mother when she asked why I was hollering my lungs out? "I don't know. She just sat down and started making that noise."

Ana also initially tried to pin the blame all on her sister, who was doing the same to her. Once it became clear that they were both in deep trouble regardless, Ana switched her story to taking all the blame, even claiming that her sister was not in the room at the time, that it happened during naptime. This story is no more believable than the first, but it is at least a lot *nicer* - I'd rather she lie to keep her sister out of trouble than lie to save her own skin. It's a lot higher on the ethical side of things.

Comments

[ancarett]

Should I tell you about the time when we were teaching Constance how to use scissors with more skill at about age five? She'd gotten bored with paper cutting, snuck the scissors back out of the art bin, stepped back behind me and snipped off about four inches of a section of my hair?

At least she couldn't deny what she'd done, but you have all of my sympathies!

[conuly]

Of *your* hair? I've heard of kids cutting their own hair, or a baby sibling's, or a doll's, but I thought all kids had enough self-preservation to not mess with Mom's hair.

Then again, I'd have thought they all had the sense not to destroy their beds, too....

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

At around the same age, I cut a chunk out of the middle of both my eyebrows. I suspect my mother made much the same sound.

[conuly]

Eyebrows? They grow back.

Hammocks? I'm not so sure.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Good point. My foray into amateur aesthetics is, however, immortalized in my junior kindergarten class picture.

[conuly]

Woman at the SICM told me once that her daughter, when she was young, had long red hair. Like the little mermaid.

Day before her first Communion she took scissors and hacked off all the hair on one side of her head, right up to the scalp. "I don't WANT to be Ariel anymore!!!!"

I mean, apparently the hairdressers did what they could, and they worked with the veil as much as possible, but there's only so much you can do!

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Myself, I think I managed to convince my mother that a classmate had dared me to do it. But if I recall correctly, I turned to him and said, "Dare me to cut off my eyebrows?"

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

I missed something here. Why can't you walk?

[conuly]

Twisted ankle. Or something like that. Happens to my foot periodically and pisses me off each time.

[mayna.livejournal.com]

my kids do some stupid shit too with MY stuff and it really really really ticks me off.

[conuly]

I can imagine.

[siderea]

he children are in total and utter disgrace and grounded until the end of the week.

I hope you mean that literally: if they cut up a hammock they sleep in, they can contine to sleep in it. Right where it lies on the floor.

[conuly]

They like to sleep on the floor, but yes, it *was* such a hammock, and yes, we *do* mean that literally.

There's just no words for this sort of thing.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Wow... Sounds... fun. ><;
Unfortunately, though, my biggest comment is that I totally misinterpreted "salmon balls", and was wondering why in the hell you'd eat something like that. But now I'm realizing salmon probably don't have that that particular organ. At least not externally.

[ancarett]

Should I tell you about the time when we were teaching Constance how to use scissors with more skill at about age five? She'd gotten bored with paper cutting, snuck the scissors back out of the art bin, stepped back behind me and snipped off about four inches of a section of my hair?

At least she couldn't deny what she'd done, but you have all of my sympathies!

[conuly]

Of *your* hair? I've heard of kids cutting their own hair, or a baby sibling's, or a doll's, but I thought all kids had enough self-preservation to not mess with Mom's hair.

Then again, I'd have thought they all had the sense not to destroy their beds, too....

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

At around the same age, I cut a chunk out of the middle of both my eyebrows. I suspect my mother made much the same sound.

[conuly]

Eyebrows? They grow back.

Hammocks? I'm not so sure.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Good point. My foray into amateur aesthetics is, however, immortalized in my junior kindergarten class picture.

[conuly]

Woman at the SICM told me once that her daughter, when she was young, had long red hair. Like the little mermaid.

Day before her first Communion she took scissors and hacked off all the hair on one side of her head, right up to the scalp. "I don't WANT to be Ariel anymore!!!!"

I mean, apparently the hairdressers did what they could, and they worked with the veil as much as possible, but there's only so much you can do!

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Myself, I think I managed to convince my mother that a classmate had dared me to do it. But if I recall correctly, I turned to him and said, "Dare me to cut off my eyebrows?"

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

I missed something here. Why can't you walk?

[conuly]

Twisted ankle. Or something like that. Happens to my foot periodically and pisses me off each time.

[mayna.livejournal.com]

my kids do some stupid shit too with MY stuff and it really really really ticks me off.

[conuly]

I can imagine.

[siderea]

he children are in total and utter disgrace and grounded until the end of the week.

I hope you mean that literally: if they cut up a hammock they sleep in, they can contine to sleep in it. Right where it lies on the floor.

[conuly]

They like to sleep on the floor, but yes, it *was* such a hammock, and yes, we *do* mean that literally.

There's just no words for this sort of thing.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Wow... Sounds... fun. ><;
Unfortunately, though, my biggest comment is that I totally misinterpreted "salmon balls", and was wondering why in the hell you'd eat something like that. But now I'm realizing salmon probably don't have that that particular organ. At least not externally.