Gosh what a weekend! Friday night we were supposed to meet a friend for dinner in NJ but plans fell through so we spent the night at home with Pizza Hut and the movie Iron Man (awesome movie, if you haven't seen it GO DO IT NOW!!). Oh, and those chocolate dunker things from Pizza Hut, omg are they disgusting!!! Who ever thought to take a hot greasy bread stick and cover it with chocolate and then dunk it in hot melted chocolate, must have been an idiot. I love and I mean LOVE chocolate and I won't touch them, what does that tell you? Yuck!
Anyways, Saturday went kind of as planned. Dropped the bf off at the Rock Band party, went to Gram's to get some furniture, fell out of the back of the bf's truck and broke my fall on the hitch, got a nice purple welt as a souvenir, lovely lol. Went to my parents and went to dinner with them, got into a huge fight didn't end up getting home until after 8. By the time I got the truck unloaded, showered, dressed, and over to the Rock Band party, it was over. Great. So we went back home and I put my furniture together and went to bed.
At least Sunday turned out to be what I hoped. Bf and I went to lunch, I had A margarita and was totally spent. I had to go home and take a 3 hour nap to sleep it off so I could go grocery shopping lol. Nothing like being drunk at 4pm on a Sunday afternoon lol. I got absolutely no cleaning done Sunday, no laundry, no nothing, just a drunken nap :-) and that's the way every Sunday should be.
I did get some nice furniture though from Gram's. I got a nice small corner hutch for our dining room and 2 end tables that we are using as night stands. All I need to get now is her dining table and chairs and I'll be happy. Who knows if that is going to happen or not though, with the family war going on now over her house. You would swear the lady was dead already, sheesh!
Sometimes I'm really grateful that I don't have siblings. At least I know now that when my parents are old I'm on my own. I don't have the false hope of help that just won't be there. It would have been nice growing up with siblings though, it got boring just going on vacation with your parents every year, having no one to play games with, fight with, talk to, etc. Now, however, I am content with out them. I can always pretend the bf's 2 brothers are mine if I ever get that desperate and feel like I need a younger sibling to pick on :-) that doesn't happen that often though :-).
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Don't get me wrong, his brothers and family are great but it seems like the bigger the family the bigger the drama. It's that way with my Mom's brothers and my Dad's brothers and sisters all very good examples of why I'm happy to be a only child (especially my Dad's side, WOW talk about Drama, with a capital D, they could own the channel TNT with all their drama and they would never run out of show ideas, yeesh!).
It doesn't, however, mean I want only one child myself, hypocritical I know lol, but let me explain. The bf and I have decided on 2, I know what you're thinking, we're not even engaged yet and we're talking about kids, maybe we should be talking about getting engage first. Thanks Mom. Dually noted. The engagement will come soon enough and I think since we've waiting so long to get engaged and married it won't be long after we're married that we start having kids, so it's good to talk about these things now and know where we both stand :-). Anyways, back to my point, yes I do have one.
I think the bf and I both agree that the relationship the siblings have with one another is modeled after the relationship the parents have with the kids. Meaning if there is no respect between parent and child there will most likely be no respect between siblings either. Some people might argue that this is, in fact, not true and kids are kids and will behave how they want, blah blah blah and I say, you're wrong. Kids behave how you treat them and how you condition them to behave. I know it sounds odd but kids don't learn how to behave on their own, just like they don't learn how to ride a bike on their own, they need to be taught and guided. I'm a firm believer in disciplining a child when they have done something wrong or when they have disrespected someone. I feel without reinforcing your rules your kids will just act how they want because they know they can get away with it, and partially because they don't know any better, and you'll never have control since you didn't exercise it at an early age.
Blah blah blah and my rant continues. I don't want to go on forever here, because trust me I can. I'm sure there are people out there who think, "you say that now, just wait until you have kids and you don't have time to think let alone discipline them." To those people I say shame on you for not doing what is necessary to ensure the successful upbringing of someone you CHOSE to bring into this world. Maybe you should have thought about these things before you DECIDED to have children of your own and maybe it would have prevented you from having them all together, who knows. All I know is the bf and I are determined to make sure we raise our children as best we can and as we see fit for this crazy world we live in. Check back in 10 years or so and I'll let you know how it's going :-).
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