Or at least Chris and myself...
So last night, Chris walks in after getting home from work and thanks me for making dinner. MmmK, whatever, I just let it slide by. Then after he finished eating dinner...he said it again, "Hey thanks for making dinner." Mind you, I make dinner quite a bit...at least during the week...we do our fair share of eating out but again, I frequently make meals, so when he repeatedly thanked me last night, instead of welcoming the appreciation, it translated a little like this in my head:
Chris: Hey thanks for making dinner. Because it's not often that you cook...and I'm sure it took a lot out of you to have to make it since you're so *busy* at home all the time. Actually, I can't really tell what you do all day but you like to remind me on almost a daily basis how hard it is to be you...and to be home with the kids...and how much work it is...and how stressful. So of course, I completely believe you...which is why I'm *thanking* you for making this awesome dinner.
Chris, of course, must've seen the slightly annoyed wheels a turnin' in my head because before I could say anything, he followed his appreciation up with the explanation that he's trying to be more appreciative of me and even though I cook a lot, he thought he should start thanking me for it every once in a while.
On a completely different note...Ayris has discovered the word damnit. She said it a few days ago when I was on the computer and I just asked her where she learned it...she said Daddy. I didn't say anything more because I figured if I ignored it, she'd just forget about it. Fast forward a couple days after that and Chris is making something in the kitchen. I hear Ayris say the word damnit and Chris asks where she learned that...and she told him that he had said it. So he apologizes and tells her that he shouldn't have used that word because it's bad and that God wouldn't like it...to which Ayris responds, so will I not go to heaven if I say damnit? Chris tells her that he's not really sure (obviously he knows a person is not sent to hell by saying damnit but Ayris doesn't know much about hell yet and I think he was just trying to get her to stop saying the word because throughout this conversation she had already said it like 15 times) at which point Ayris proclaims...
"Well, I think I'm just going to keep saying damnit because I'm not ready to go to heaven just yet!"
Oy! I have a feeling she's just always going to be one step ahead of us at all times.
Unfortunally I know all too well what it is like to teach a kid a bad word. Kal picked up on a bad one that I have used and wouldn't you know it, it's one he can say clearly! Good thing he is not too into saying it or I would be in big trouble.
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