The instructions:
Conner, please go hang up your ski jacket.
The result.
Um, not exactly what I had in mind. I was thinking more along these lines:
After yesterday’s lunch money, bike crashing, ripped shorts, “parallel to the park” debacle, I had been hoping the rip in the shorts was small and on a seam.
Not so much.
Fairly new Quiksilver shorts, gutted like a trout. There’s no salvaging these babies.
oy.
(Also? When I came out of my room this morning I discovered that Conner was actually out of his bed. I took that as a good sign, until I realized he had simply moved to the couch and had gone back to sleep there…)
Yeah, those shorts are a lost cause!
ooh! His shorts look like my pants when they ripped at the flower nursery. Mine couldn’t be salvaged either, except as a nice wastebasket liner…
I could do a whole month’s blog on the effect I wanted vs. the effect I received from the boys….
Well, in Conner’s defense, the ski jacket is on the hanger and not on the floor… :o)
Yep, them shorts is cashed.
I had a brother who sandbagged all his chores when we were kids. I think his coat hung that exact same way…
It’s like a slacker’s pennant.
Did you know that while they’re sleeping, their brains are growing? I think I heard that somewhere, so maybe it’s a good thing? Maybe he’ll wake up and he’ll know how to hang his coat the next time!
🙂
i wonder what it will be like when i HAVE to wake up my kids. usually the pattern goes like this–cats meowing outside at 5:15 am–the 3 year old wakes up and comes to our room–we tell her to go back to bed, which she does in a huff–slams her door–wakes up her 7 year old brother–he comes to our room–the 3 year old comes back–both climb in our bed–i am grumpy and LEAVE the bed–the three year old comes after me crying that she wants to “cuddle”–the 7 year old comes out begging for food–my husband is left sleeping for another two hours…
those shorts are crazy ripped!
Hey, I’m pretty impressed with the way he got the jacket hung up!
And now that I think of it… I’m pretty impressed with the way he ripped his shorts too!
You have two choices. Don’t look in his closet or say,
“Connor, I want you to take this jacket and hang it upon a hanger in your closet. I would like for you to put the pointy non hooked ends of the hanger into the sleeves, one end per sleeve, please. Plus, I’d like for it to be right side out and I’d also like for the hood to be hanging down in the back of the jacket. Moreover, I’d like for you to zip it up in the front thereby assuring me that it will remain upon the hanger until you find that you have a need to wear it again. OH, and I’d like for you to hang the hooked part of the triangle over the horizontal pole that you will find within your closet.
Personally, I think that is just FAR too many words to have to put together when you are a busy mom,so.
I’m just sayin’
I’m sorry but I can’t help but laugh! I can honestly relate! I went into my son’s room today to find him hanging from his closet rack trying to get things down with everything that was hanging all over the floor! Kids!
Nah! There not a loss- you should find some silly way to stitch them up and make him wear them again. Out in public. Preferably in a public place where he would be embarrassed for eternity.
Hee Hee.
~Becca
I’m with Becca…totally make him wear them again!
These stories are so up my alley. When I ask my 6 year old to hang things up, it looks like that, only she’s not tall enough to reach without a stool, so I often find the hanger in use hung on the bottom of another hanger instead of on the pole!