I’ve just been TOLD by an 8 year old!
|8.Sep.2008As I was grabbing a paper towel to clean up a mess I noticed that the roll was nearly empty again; I just replaced it on Friday.
Me: “What in the world? What is happening to all the paper towels?”
Meredith: “I use them for my pop-tarts.”
Me: “I’m gonna have to take a second job just to pay for paper towels. You guys are going through paper towels like they grow on trees or something.”
Meredith: “Um…they do.”
Me: “Oh, yea. Stop being so smart and read your book.”
Kenny: “You’ve just been TOLD by an 8 year old Momma!”
20 Comments
Gayle
Kids are just too smart these days!
MMM
*snort*
chilihead
heh heh. My kids always put their hands to their ear as if listening for something. “Hear that?” they ask. “That bell sound? I think you just got schooled.”
Nice.
mamalang
tee hee hee. And I’m with you on the paper towels. At this point we have two rolls available at a time. But I don’t find icky washclothes left laying on the floor anymore, so I sing “lalalala” when my brain starts talking to me about being “green.”
Angela Tippets
Too funny! My kids are always doing that to me. They are SO smart, or is that “smarty-pants”? :)
bethany actually
“Um…they do.”
I knew I liked Mer. :-)
Cindy
HAHAHAHA ahem! Too funny! 8^P
Luke Holzmann
A perfect moment to see their education is working, and to encourage further research because paper towels don’t “just” grow on trees, which is why they cost so much.
Funny stuff.
~Luke
Michelle
Well, they don’t technically GROW on trees… but that was a good comeback.
Mrs. Wilson
tee hee!
Lanna
LOL! I totally wish I had as much wit in our house as your family does. :) Too cute.
Liz C.
And, technically, they don’t grow ON trees… wood pulp comes from IN trees.
But, yeah. She got you.
:)
Mr. OMSH
Actually Liz C. she is technically correct. See, we harvest our paper towel rolls from a rare species of mimosa located in Guatemala. It’s from the ‘rollicus expensivetimos’ family. Every other year, during our family vacation to Don Rafa, Guatemala, we trade our worst behave child for a 2-year supply of paper towels. We save on paper products, return airfare, clothing, and educational supplies.
OMSH
At one point in time I just gave up hope that Mr. OMSH would be anything but strange.
That’s when we started having fun.
Dad
Mrs. OMSH, I can remember when YOU … well, I won’t go there on your blog. All I can say is, “God is good.”
Mr. OMSH
…Oooooooh OMSH, you got told by a 60 year old!
Aileen
You’ve been SERVED!!
jamie
HAHAHAHAAA!
I hear ya about the paper towels tho. That’s why we switched to cloth ones. I heart them so much, lol!
I frequently hear from my kids, with the sigh, and the slight eye roll, ‘Momma, we’re only KIDS.’
Liz C.
hee hee hee… yes, it’s more fun to just Embrace The Oddness. Particularly if The Oddness in question is cute and huggable.
My mother spends a lot of time just grinning and chuckling these days, as her children begin to give birth to The Curse Children: those who fulfill the Mother’s Curse–”I hope you have a child Just Like You.”
Lis Garrett
Ha! That’s too funny!