Reasons To Revoke Your Child’s Use of Facebook

Santa graced Thing 1 and Thing 3 with night vision goggles for Christmas so it’s not rare to have a Nerf Gun war in the dark now and so after church (and I’m pretty sure to delay bath time) they decided they were going to have a quick war.

It’s not a school night, so after church, I extended clean-up/bedtime by 30 minutes.  They get to sleep in 30 more minutes so I was trying to be nice.

Thing 1 decided at the last minute that he wasn’t feeling up to a war and I saw the dissappointment in Thing 3′s face so I spun around and said, “Go get your guns, I’ll have a war with you.”

This brought about stares from the girls and the boy to which I asked, “what?”  I didn’t think this was such a big deal, but the boy’s response?

“Oh man… this is going to be good.”

After a quick lesson in how to shoot the gun and how to work the goggles (and after bumping into a few walls because there is NO peripheral vision on these things) we were on our way upstairs to have a war.  The war didn’t last long.  We can only shoot 25 bullets at a time.

When we were both empty we turned the lights back on and I started picking up my darts.  (We have rules around here… you don’t shoot an unarmed man, you never shoot Thing 4 (whether she has a gun or not) and if you shoot the darts, you pick them up.  After they were all picked up and reloaded for the next person, I came down stairs to an alert on my phone.

Picking it up, I looked to see that I had been tagged in a picture on Facebook by Thing 1.

I wonder if this is the one they will submit with my “Mother of the Year” nomination?

Until next time…