kids say the darndest things: No. 18

Driving in the car the other day and my middle kid is telling us how they are doing a project in school where students pick a career and then write about what they want to be when they grow up. She then itemizes out some of her classmates choices including, dolphin trainer, NFL star, horse breeder and so on.

My son asks her, "Does anyone want to be like mommy? A work woman."

My daughter replies, "What's a work woman?"

My son responds, "You know, like mommy and go to work as a work woman."

To which my oldest blurts out, "Why would anyone want to be that? Tooo hard!"

To all us "Work woman" out there...yes, even your child may acknowledge that your job is too hard!

kids say the darndest things: No 17

recently my dear son was bemoaning that the life of a dog is soo much better than his..

"It must be so great to be a dog, you can just sit around and sleep all day."

To which I responded, "Yea, but... sometimes people yell at you for no reason and you don't know what is going on."

To which my son replied, "How is that different from my life?"

kids say the darndest things: No. 16

ok, so we're still on a fishing kick...at least it stretched through this weekend since we packed up the whole family and tried to use the leftover bait from daddy and son's foray the other day.

this time everyone (that means kids, not mom...please) took a shot at string in a big one. Bait was flying, hooks were getting caught in tree branches, poles were snapping...but we managed to hang on long enough to hear the youngest in our crew utter these words as he sent out his final cast for the morning

"Eat my bait fishes!"

kids say the darndest things: No. 15

today is a daddy and son day...they have gone fishing and I stocked them up last night with bags of chips, donuts and the strongly needed bait.

well, my dear son asked me when I was tucking him last night if I and his sisters would not come with he and daddy today since he just wanted to alone with dad.

I responded, "No problem babe, have a great time!"

to which he replied, "Thanks mom, we'll bring you home any of the donuts that we don't eat."

kids say the darndest things: No. 14

a recent surge in Nutella popularity in the house has the family eating it day and night...even when there isn't much bread to schmear it on. Out of desperation the other day, we swiped it on some old crackers and swallowed it down...but the crackers were a bit stale and we ended up in a quite sticky mess in our mouths.

To which I said, "Well, this is a change of pace!"

To which my son replied, "Yeah, I know...a change of paste!"

kids say the darndest things: No. 13

My son was home today since it was kindergarten orientation for next year's class (what the???) and he was overjoyed at the prospect of a whole day home alone without his sisters.

As the morning progressed and we were busy running errands and talking, taking time to shoot hoops, etc. he turned to me and said, "How many hours until they (his sisters) get home?"

I replied, "About four hours."

He turned to me aghast, "But that's soooo short! They just left!"

your telling me kid....your telling me!

kids say the darndest things: No. 12

Recently there was a minor mishap in the basement concerning a certain expensive home theater speaker - the same speaker that dear daddy referred to when he told all three kids to "Never, ever, ever go near the speakers!".

So, said speaker gets toppled as a superhero kid catapults himself from the back of the sofa. Dear daddy confronts children about the broken speaker and says "What is the one rule we have about the basement?" (Note: dear dad is looking for a response that has the word speaker in it somewhere....) In response my son says, "Turn out the lights????"

Not the right answer, but an eco-friendly answer - so one point for that.

kids say the darndest things: No. 11

it's Girl Scout Cookie time again and as my middle one (a Brownie) started revving up her pen to take in some orders my littlest one said, "Why do they call it Brownies when they sell cookies?"