Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Kidnapped my husband

Yesterday was busy painting trim in Emily's room. Of course I had to wrap the room in blue tape. For those who don't know, I'm notorious for blue painter's tape in my house, and just to aggravate my kids, I sometimes let it stay for a while before I take it down after painting. Sometimes I will leave just a small piece on the wall on around a door just to drive them crazy. Anyway, I was finishing up with the paint yesterday and thought that I don't want to spend another night at home watching Jim play computer games and listening to the kids fight with each other over the dumbest things, so I decided to get cleaned up and dressed up and go kidnap my husband for a night out. The kids were going crazy because I told them they were on their own for dinner and don't call me unless it's an emergency. They were uncertain as to where I was going (didn't tell them any details) and left them with their mouths hanging wide open. Went to Jim's office (this was 3:30 in the afternoon) and told him to pack his stuff, we were going out. We went to the movies (Underworld 3---excellent movie) and out to dinner afterwards. Can't remember the last time Jim and I went to a movie alone. It was after 9 when we got home and Jennifer met us at the door with the words "You're grounded". She said dinner and a movie shouldn't take that long (we went to early 4pm movie) and we had no excuse. I think they were just mad because they couldn't go out themselves. We had a blast and wondered why we don't do it more often.

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  1. Don't you love it when it all comes around and the kids are the ones who have to "act like grown-ups"...So- being "grounded" ain't so bad in your little hideaway, right? Hang up your WACO sign on the door and order in!!!!! We love it~~~

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