Hooray! We managed to decorate the Christmas tree without it turning into a huge stressy argument. I told them before we started that if we argued the tree would come down and nobody would get any presents – that worked….
My teenage son’s overview of how it looked after all our hard work? “It looks like somebody’s thrown up on our tree, especially that tinsel, it looks like Christmas sick”. Great. Not quite the look I was going for.
7 year olds quote of the day:
“My willy rocks!”
Then he went on to tell me that his friend at school calls a vagina “a funny”. “Why”, he said “would he call it that? I don’t see what’s funny about it”. I didn’t think it was the right moment to correct his spelling and/or pronunciation.