Because of the solstice season, it does not get dark till aroun 10 p.m. Therefore a lot of moms will have blackout curtains put up in the kids bedrooms. Our house is no different. Last year dad spent a couple of weekends putting ours up. It took Mimi 2 seconds to pull hers down.
Last Monday evening after dinner Mimi and I took Butch for a walk around the neighborhood. I have been doing more of that lately. We saw Alex as he was walking home from his ball game with his mom and baby brother Nate. By the time we got home it was 8:30 and I had Mimi go upstairs to take a bath. After her bath she was all wound up. I had a really hard time getting her to bed because according to Mimi "It's not night outside mom, it's still light and I don't want to take a nap when it is light outside". It does not matter that by this time it was 9:00 in the evening. I finally got her into bed and went into the office in the next room. The next thing I heard was Mimi in a big loud booming voice yelling out her window to her classmates Ethan and Kate and their family down below "Hi Ethan! Hi Kate!" Plus I heard some jumping on the bed. Then I heard a loud crash and bang!
By this time I was irritable, tired and cranky. I went in to see what happened. When I did, I just let the girl have it. I told her that she was getting on my last nerves. "What's nerves?" asks the child. ARGHHHHH!!!!! I just had to leave the room which is suffice to say.
Later after I had calmed down I realized that this is no way to put a child to bed and so I went back into Mimi's room and we talked things out as we always do. We also hugged and kissed and made up. By this time dad had come home. Mimi asked if she could go downstairs and say hello to him and so she did. She sheepishly said "dad, you need to go upstairs and look at my window". Uh oh he thought and sure enough he was not jumping for joy like whoopty doo! Mimi broke the curtain rod! Nor did he get mad at her. Instead we all talked things out as a family. Only after did we talk things out, Mimi says "dad, you could fix the window on Saturday". That's our baby! Hence the gymnastic classes.
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