[Stone Bridge: Family] Driving Me to Drink

I joined my dear friend Shea for cheap beers at Wings tonight. Shea's going through a rough divorce after 14 years, so he needed a drink. Me, I'm happily married, I should be able to have a brew for no reason at all. But this week has been different. We're still sleeping through the night -- for the most part -- so that's not a problem. But Savannah has been somewhat of a challenge this week.

At her school they have a color system for behavior. If your kid doesn't make a ny trouble, they stay on green. If they murder the teacher and place her head on a pike to frighten away villagers from neighboring tribes, their color is changed to red. For three days straight, Savvi has been on Yellow. That places her somewhere in the "future leader of a rebellion against the galactic empire, whether evil or no" category.

She maily gets in trouble for laughing and playing during nap time. We let it slide the first day. Inspired by our church, we call that "granting her grace." The second day she got a good talking to and a strategy for preventing trouble. My brilliant close-your-eyes-and-turn-your-back-on-the-instigators plan didn't work at all. Yellow for three days straight.

She was warned that a third day of yellow would reuslt in a spanking and no TV or movies for a week. Given the choice, she had Kelli spank her. She may be a future sociopath, but at least she thinks well on her feet. We reminded her of the no-TV rule and sent her to bed for a nap.

Kelli went up a few minutes later to discover that she had deliberately had an accident in her bed. Self-control and the Holy Spirit prevented Kelli from doing her bodily harm. After that little display, we took away all of her Chronicles of Naria toys (a very serious punishment) and boxed up her DVDs (tantamount to torture.) She'll get the toys and DVDs back in a week, if she stays on green and has no more accidents.

Anyway, all that to say I needed my beer, more than I would have thought a week ago. Plus, it's always good to get more out of shape before starting a documentary about getting in shape. I know, it's a cheap excuse, but I'll keep milking it, thank you.

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Posted by Wayne to Stone Bridge: Family at 1/26/2006 07:17:00 PM