PUNISHMENT

Every kid has their price. For the most part, Mimi is a super duper good kid. Now and then she has the ablity to test me and really work my nerves. This week was one of them. Nothing serious but she has become the "Princess of Stall and Sassy". Daphne says that Sara is the "Queen of Stall" so I call Mimi the "Princess of Stall and Sassy" since Mimi adores Sara and copies everything she does.

This has been a short week of school due to Staff Development for the Tahoma School District. So 2 tests were crammed into one day. Mimi stalled ALL WEEK long. I started sounding like a broken record and the wine at night was not helping to calm the nerves anymore.

Finally yesterday was the last straw when the little devil of the sassy attitude started to rear its ugly horns and as punishment, ALL ELECTRONICS are taken away. The time out chair is no longer useful. So that means no DVDs, computer, DSI, so on and so forth. She came close to losing out on a sleepover tonight.

So tonight on the way home from the competition, the little stinker tried to slip in a DVD on the car DVD player. That is until I turned it off and had to remind the girl of her punishment for all of the crap she dished out this past week. How fast they seem to conveniently forget. And as we are discussing her punishment, the child changes the subject......"Mom, do you know that it is night time in New York???" I think this child would make a great lawyer someday.

On a brighter note, she passed her tests with flying colors and recieved not one but two medals today. She won 2nd place in trampoline and 3rd in the double mini.

On top of all of this, the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and my cousin Miura is still missing. PHEW!!! What a week and it is still not over.