An Early Morning Angry Elf Episode

Waking up early on the weekends is so much fun. Especially when you have to be woken up on the week days and you beg for sleep... You get up early to Carpe Diem, I suppose, I don't really understand the logic. But I would like to know when kids start wanting to sleep in until noon. I remember BEGGING my mom to let me sleep and she would wake me up with the vacuum at 8:30 in the morning.

We hopped out of bed around 7:20 and the girls are already working on their minimum word counts for they day. For example, BLM asks: "Momma why does a bird fly south every day?" The answer: "Because it is too far to walk." I think that was a joke she made up.

During my muffin-making attempts, the LLM wandered on into the kitchen area to the Puff Department. She started trying to open Puff Drawer. I told her in a firm voice, "NO, you are not eating Puffs for breakfast." She whined and continued to paw at the drawer fervently. I told her NO again, and she whined and walked over to another area where she spied a bag of BBQ Pork Rinds. I took them and hid them in the Puff drawer and she BAWLED like I had cut her deep in the heart.

I don't know how I get these high maintenance girls. It can't be me, can it? No. Not me. Not with my request for extra ice every time I go out to eat. Not with my need for my bed to be made on a daily basis, no matter what. Not me. No, it has to be hard-wired into them, right?