Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand ~ Take Six

Why can't they do this when it's the crappy toilet paper? Why must they do this to the good stuff??

I have no words.

Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand ~ Take Five

Things have been pretty quiet on the Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand front.

Well, until Thursday that is.

When Julie came home from school and came upstairs to say hello, I noticed that she still had her shoes on. She knows my rule about no shoes in the house and before I could open my mouth she spoke.

"I know what you're going to say, Mom. And I'm sorry I still have my shoe on in the house."

I looked down and sure enough she only had one shoe on.

Before I could ask my question she spoke again.

"The reason why I still have my shoe on is because I can't get it off. See?"



"I guess you're wondering how this happened, huh." she asked.

I raised my eyebrow and nodded yes.

She said that she was pulling her jeans on after gym and didn't feel like taking her shoes off first. One pant leg worked fine, but the other got stuck.

"You tried to pull your skinny jeans on over those huge clunky shoes?" I asked.

She nodded and told me that she tried to fix it all afternoon but she couldn't get the leg over the shoe, nor could she take the shoe off at this point.

"I figured you would help me when I got home." she said, shrugging.

I tried and tried to pull her jeans and shoe off but they wouldn't budge. Even with me bracing my foot against her butt, I still couldn't pull it off. All I was doing was yanking with all my strength while she laughed her head off.

Finally Ian came in, grabbed her leg and pulled the jeans and shoe off.

We made her promise not to do this again.

And that's Take Five of Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand.

Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand ~ Take Four

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I mentioned last week that Mom took the whole family out for dinner to celebrate my nephew's graduation. We went to Tucker's Marketplace which is a buffet style restaurant. It's one of my favourite places but we haven't been there in a very long time.

I wonder if they missed me as much as I missed them.

Long tables full of different salads, pastas, meat dishes...pizza, roast beef, potatoes, soup, breads...tons of desserts and an ice cream sundae bar.

Oh yummeh.

I told the children I didn't care how much they ate or the order they ate it in, all I asked was that they ate what they took.

I can't stand it when people take all sorts of food, sample some of it then leave it to the side and go up for more.

We'll just call that Kate's Pet Peeve #1,362,592.

Eat what you take!

Julie made me laugh at her dessert choice.

She couldn't decide if she wanted more corn or to just go for the brownies.

So, she went for both.



Oh how love that girl!

Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand ~ Take Three

I love baking as you know by now.

Baking puts my mind in my 'happy place'. I putter around, doing my thing and I am (for the most part!) relaxed and happy.

My children also enjoy baking. Julie has made fabulous Fat Archie Cookies and Sam loves to bake cakes.

I had some bananas that I had to use up, so I asked Jules if she'd like to try her hand at making banana bread. She was all over that idea.

She carefully measured everything, cracked eggs with precision, and mixed it up like a pro.

One hour later we pulled out the most delicious smelling banana bread you could imagine. I couldn't wait for it to cool so I could transfer it to a plate and photograph it to show you her awesome job.

I went upstairs to put Jordan down for her afternoon nap, then stretched out on my bed in front of the fan to cool off. I was gone for maybe 20 minutes tops.

I came downstairs and took one look at her banana bread and just about fell over.

**please excuse my pan-it's a million years old**

Apparently someone couldn't wait for me to put it on a plate or to take a picture of it.

Who does that?

Kids do that.

I don't get it.

I mean, I do get it. The top is the best part of the whole thing, but come on!

I called Ian at work to tell him but I got zero sympathy from him. In fact, he laughed at me.

I know. I couldn't believe it either.

I cut the top off and stuck it under glass to keep it fresh.

I will never understand kids.

Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand ~ Take Two

One of the many things Sam likes to do is to make his own lunch.

Being that I am often busy with a gazillion things at once, I am grateful that he is willing to do this for himself.

Usually he chooses to eat a peanut butter sandwich. I appreciate his choice because you can't set fire to the kitchen if all you're doing is slapping some PB on a slice of bread.

I guess he decided to kick things up a notch because this is what he made one day last week:



Now, I love me some M&Ms and I love me some peanut butter, but never together.

Again I say...never.

We went to the African Lion Safari yesterday and rather than buy lunch there, I packed some of Sam's beloved peanut butter and a loaf of bread, along with some snacks.

Apparently my straight PB sandwich was considerably lacking because this is what Sam did to make it "better":



I don't know how he ate that, but he did.

I ate my PB sandwich, had a few chips and maybe even a bit of popcorn as well. So really, what was in his belly was also in mine. But it all didn't arrive the same way, thankyouverymuch.

I go back and forth between appreciation for his creativity and being completely grossed out.

Do your kids do this or does mine have the corner market on this type of thing?

Things Kids Do That I Don't Understand ~ Take One

I have this thing about toilet paper. I like to have it.

A lot of it.

It's not something that I particularly like to run out of. Recently, our local grocery store had toilet paper on sale, so I stocked up.

Like normal folk, I will put a roll on the holder and when it's empty I will replace it.

But not my children.

Oh no.

Apparently they like to display all of it for some reason.



I don't understand why.

We do have room underneath the sink to store it.

But no.

They keep pulling it out and stacking it for the world to see.



It does make me laugh though...

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