You and your nutty squirrel!
Our day is done, and the bed is looking heavenly to me! We went on something I explained to the girls like this:
"If anyone asks why we were gone for eight hours, it's called a road trip".
Child: "what's a road trip Mommy?"
"It's an alternative word for what just happened."
Child: Why can't we just say you got us really really lost and our *bunny tails* (is that a better way to say it preacher?) fell asleep?"
"Because honey, mommy doesn't need the world to know she's a moron."
Child: so we have to LIE?
"Did we drive in the car?"
Children all scream: "YEEESSSS!"
"Were we on a road?"
Children yell out: "Lots of roads!"
"Was it a trip?"
Children think and hesitantly say: "hey, yeah, I guess it was!"
"Exactly. Now take a nap until we're back home."
[ December 16, 2005, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: Gina L ]