Lessons I Learned Today

#1. Allowing your kids and four of their friends to eat pixie sticks on the living room rug when your vacuum is broken is a bad idea.

#2. Talking to your kids about maybe inviting their friends over for a party sometime soon is interpreted by children as "We're having a party tomorrow, so we better go invite all our friends right now. No need to tell Mom, it was her idea."

#3. Parties give me headaches. They also fry my brain so that after the party, I have to stare at my kids for several moments to try to decode any simple question they ask and conjure up an appropriate response.

#4. Picking fights with family on Facebook will nearly always make you look bad.

#5. Men are wimps. Well, in some regards. But this I already knew, so not really a lesson I learned today.

#6. Having a 2 year old who speaks some made up language is just as difficult as having one who throws tantrums at every turn to try to get what he wants, and I have both, all rolled into one. I'd like to think that the tantrums come from my inability to understand this made-up language, but having learned other lessons on other days, I know that the truth is probably that I have just let him become a brat. Maybe tomorrow I will learn how to correct that, but right now, I am going to buy some kind of cheap fast food for dinner because the kitchen is a mess, my head is still recovering from all these lessons, and I don't feel like cooking.