To my children. Whom I love.
Eating your dinner is not, and never will be, a prerequisite to eating something other than what I have prepared....for dinner. Eating a few bites does not qualify you to have a bowl of ice cream and I'd like to remind you that this very meal was your "favorite" just last week. A short 7 days ago.
Save your tears and your declarations of injustice. They fall on deaf ears.
Also, when you say "I'm full". I will take that literally. Although I am well aware the precise translation is, "This dish is disgusting. I'd prefer that it never crossed my lips. I could live a thousand lifetimes and be perfectly content to eat anything and everything besides this. Now that I have been so gracious as to visibly gag down spoonfuls of this slop, may I please have my third towering glass of chocolate milk? I'm going to have to get my calories from somewhere."
I'm on to you. I've been a mother for 8 1/2 years. In that time I have come to a certain knowledge that the phrase "You'll survive" is not only timely but true.
Until breakfast, my dears. Sleep well.
Mother.
I love it!!
ReplyDeleteI am going to print that off and use it at my house.
You are truly the mouthpiece of all mothers!
ReplyDeleteThis has been on a loop in our house all Christmas break. What is going on?!?
ReplyDeleteYou took the words right out of my mouth.
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Haha. We just had this happen over the weekend. Will kept saying how full he was after only a few bites. I told him that meant no snacks when we got home later because he was so full. As soon as we got home he asked for a snack. I told him to remember what I said at dinner. He crossed his arms, turned up his head and walked out of the room :)
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