Kiddo#1: I don’t want to go to Vacation Bible School.
Me: Why not?
Kiddo#1: I just don’t.
Me: {no reply}
Kiddo#1: I need a t-shirt of Jonathan Papelbon.
Me: Why?
Kiddo#1, with a sly grin: That’s what it will take to make me go to Vacation Bible School.
Me: It’ll take a lot less than that.
Kiddo#1: What?
Me: I’m going to drive there tomorrow and leave your butt over there.
Kiddo#1: But the rest of me will come home with you again. I’ll just leave my butt there. And that will be gross and weird.
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You can’t argue with that, can you? But yeah, I’m leaving him there anyhow.
Ah, summer programs. That’s where I first learned how to crochet. Just remember, when he has a collection of 700+ bibles in his room, you were warned. 😉
No you can’t object. The reasoning works…but I dont think a shirt of the closer for the Angeltown Baseball Team would work for me…(especially since I love the Evil Empires myself :P)
Welcome to the world of the pre-teen. And, just think, you have all those teen years to look forward to.
Ivy, if he has 700 Bibles in his room, well, he’s not that different from the book-hoarders in the rest of the family. At least he’d have something worthwhile then.
illya, he’s not just a pre-teen: he’s a conniver too!
Glad the whole body was left at vacation bible school. I agree it would have been gross and weird. Fortunatly his butt and the rest of him seemed to enjoy it in spite of his objections and rationalizations!