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Just a few things I have learned from children...

... It is best that it is NOT quiet when the children are awake. Really. I have never found that to be a good thing.
... thump, thump, thump thump is not a fun sound to hear when it is your child's head so, make sure the ceiling fan is off when you lift your child high into the air, wee, oops... for that matter, make sure there is no ceiling fan in the vicinity.

... Just come to grips with the fact that it is best not to know what that odor really is.

... Always look in the oven before you turn it on. Trust me.

... Children can catch their own throw-up when they cup their two hands together, which gives them time to make it to the bathroom to finish... hopefully in the toilet and not on the floor.

... Children have to be taught not to eat the bone in the chicken leg.

... Though it does stick to glass and looks really cool when it rolls down the glass, kid's slimy, gooey-gak does not come off the ceiling.

... Learn to laugh even if you really want to cry. A sense of humor will help you survive, even if the laughter comes retrospectively.

The following poem is an example of the "learn to laugh" thing. I wrote this one day after all six of my children had the stomache flu at the same time. I had just read them Dr. Seuss and it, well... inspired me to survive through humor:

Vomit, vomit everywhere
Vomit, vomit in my hair

Vomit on the bathroom wall
on the carpet down the hall

Honey, um, how do I smell?
Sniff, ugh, not too well

Could my older kids please take aim?
(Oh yea, they're boys!) Who can I blame?

I could really use some sleep
time to myself so I can weep

My Lord, my God, to you I pray
No sleep in sight, but that's okay

All this vomit will soon pass
my children grown (blink) way too fast!

So I thank you Lord, this day, this hour
Though I smell and need a shower

Thanks for helping me to see
the joy to serve my family

(Don't worry. No illustrations have been made to go with this masterpiece :-/

"Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately or immoderately upon them."--John Flavel

Posted by Lisa on May 04, 2008

Comments

I love these, Lisa, and want to add my own notes from the past few years.

*Regarding the children being quiet, it is SO funny to see our 17 year old bio daughter get up now and go to check on the DOG (young, just past puppyhood) when HE is quiet. We insist that God is preparing her for motherhood.

*Hmmm, haven't heard the thump thump with a kid, but we did with a parakeet. Poor thing survived but was never quite the same after that.

*Odors always have a source - it is just that sometimes you don't want to know...

*Sorry, but I have to ask - what was in the oven?!

*Some kids think it is OK to throw up in the sink. Ugh. Then it just gets stopped up and cleaning it out is NOT fun. One of those odor things, though.

*Our kids whom we adopted from other cultures LOVE to suck the marrow out of chicken bones. They pretty much consider it the best part of the chicken. How in the world can we deprive them of that?! ;-)

*We hired a painter one time whose kids had some of that gooey stuff. You would have thought HE would know that it would stick to walls and leave marks behind...

*A sense of humor is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL when dealing with teens! You simply cannot let them take themselves too seriously, as they are oh-so prone to do.

We have been blessed to not have six kids with the stomach flu at one time, but we did have nine with the regular flu once. They were competing to see who got the highest fever and one teen son "won" at 105.6. His prize? Tylenol, and lots of it!

Thanks for the chuckles!
Blessings
Ramona

Posted by: sheshe | May 4, 2008 04:55 PM

Sheshe... With as many children as God has blessed you with, I imagine you could write a book on this theme!!!

...I just can't get that parakeet out of my head.

...Ummm, in the oven... well, plastic toys really can catch on fire in the oven. :-/

Posted by: Lisa Nunley | May 4, 2008 05:01 PM

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