In our household this weekend…
Mommy and daddy were in one room folding a moutainous stack of laundry and the children were in Kai’s room playing together nicely and not fighting.
Should have been our first clue.
Daddy walked into the room and started saying “No! No! No! Give me that!”
Mommy walked to the room and walked back out again. Must not let them see you smiling when they do something bad! They had been practicing their drawing on the dark blue part of the wall with chalk. It was just funny because that is a total kid thing to do AND I knew it would be easy to clean up. Thus, the reason I was smiling instead of going ballistic.
Once I regained my composure and put on my “mad mommy” face, I proceeded into the room to chastise them for drawing on the wall with chalk. Of course, Kailan said, “But Sister did!”. As if that makes it all okay.
In a little kid’s mind, it apparently does.
Of course it’s okay when sister did it!!!
That was the rule in my childhood home, anyway. And we all survived just fine.