Lessons Learned

Below is a list of lessons that we learned on Wednesday. Hopefully they will be remembered and not repeated.


1. When it is 5:00 and mom is in her sweats making supper and receives a phone call stating that her YM are supposed to be on the other side of the county in 1 hour, it is not going to happen.


2. When mom freaks out and tells, (ok, yells) for everybody to GET READY NOW! she really does mean it.


3. When you stand outside and throw snowballs at the van and generally goof off when you are supposed to be putting brothers and sister in the car while mom is trying to get dressed, you will get yelled at.


4. When mom tells you not to get off the porch because you will get mud all over your shoes and you get off the porch and get mud all over your shoes, mom will throw them on the porch and you will go to church in your socks.


5. When you try to knock the snowman over with a limb off the tree and get a really big splinter in your hand and it requires further time from mom to get it out she will probably not be very gentle. (sorry J)


6. 2 year olds DO NOT know why a sidewalk is cordoned off.


7. Their mom however does.


8. NO amount of yelling will stop the 2 year old from running to the ONLY door we ever go in at the church, thus running thru the JUST POURED wet cement.


9. It is VERY hard to run while in heels across the dark yard, which is not grass but mud due to the machinery, carrying a baby in his carseat.


10. That sidewalk workers do have a sense of humor (as this probably happens more times than they can count).


11. Your 5 year old will interupt New Beginnings just as you have sat down at the front of the chapel to play the piano.


12. It will not be good news.


13. Cabinets will fall on 2 year olds if they climb up them.


14. The doors will break off.


15. He will sustain many bruises, bumps, and be afraid of the cabinet for the next 2 .5 minutes.


16. He will attempt to climb the same cabinet that tried to kill him 15 minutes later.


17. The 8 month old baby can eat 5 crackers in the pew and make it look like a whole box of Ritz crackers exploded.


18. New Beginnings will be interupted just once more from the 5 year old informing EVERYBODY that the 2 year old has a piece of paper in his mouth and that he won't take it out.


19. It takes $65.00 to fill up the gas tank on a suburban.


20. That it is not wise to bug and generally ignore mom at "certain" times of the month.