You Know You Are Way Too Busy When...

Hey blogworld, how the hell have you been??? It's me, Chickie, from the now defunct "Blissful Bedlam" - hijacking Maeve's blog to tell you about something that has happened recently. This is meant to serve as a warning that if you get too much on your plate, shit will happen...

The other morning, I was sitting at the table with about four textbooks laid out as per usual, studying my brains out, when I hear my youngest child, nine-year old Dolly, downstairs laughing hysterically. I smile, think to myself, "great, she's amused, she's happy, this is good, I'm getting some WORK done now, baby."

The laughing, however, continues with a boisterousness I've never quite heard before. Now Mommy is curious, so Mommy makes her way downstairs to see what it is that is amusing her darling, sweet, innocent girl so much (silently thinking, "please don't let her be torturing the cat...").

I come around the corner and there is my daughter, sitting up on her bed sweetly, guffawing at American Pie 2. Yep, you read that right, AMERICAN PIE 2!!! Have you people seen that movie? Yes, it's funny, but it ain't funny for a nine-year old. The DVD belongs to her brothers, who are 18 and 16...the brothers who left the damn movie laying on their dresser nice and low for sissy to grab. I yank the movie out of the player, get my "mommy look" on and say to her, "Dolly, that movie belongs to your brothers and it is NOT for little girls."

She knows that the movie was NOT for little girls. How do I know this? I know this because my darling, hide-nothing, tell-it-like-it-is daughter looked up at my with her sweet little baby blues and said in a very casual tone, "It said 'fuckface' mama - I read that, I read 'fuckface' on the words." (she watches her movies with the captions on)

Oy...let's hope THAT one doesn't make it to school this week.

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On another unrelated note, if you're wondering what the homework from a child of two Atheist parents looks like, look no further, for I shall share it with you. I'll preface these photos by saying that Dolly attends a joe-blow regular, secular, public school...

Exhibit A: First list of spelling words for Grade Four (antiquated text book, obviously). Dolly comes home with instructions to construct a sentence for each word. (Make with the clickage to enlarge)



Exhibit B:
Note the third sentence up from the bottom...I thought it was a grammatically sound, well-constructed sentence. Yep, this one is going in the scrapbook. That's my girl!