Well it seems as though the phone number of choice in this house is 911. Seriously. It happened again tonight. I should have seen it coming I mean holy shit I am just the worse mother on the planet it seems right now. As you read in my post the other day about my head spinning my hubby leaving and March break coinciding seem to bring out the best in my little brats angels.
All afternoon the kiddies felt it necessary to argue, fight, do anything really other than actually get along. Of course I have been sick for the past few days so really the timing couldn’t have been better. My friend came to visit and Ryley showed off the entire time and topping off the list of strange behaviours was my eight year old daughter who suddenly decided she was “Goth” and had on all sorts of strange make-up. I informed her it was completely inappropriate and to take it off. She did. Then put it back on.
My oldest had Acrobatic gymnastics so because I am now juggling all 8 again I loaded them all into the bus so we could take her there. More aguing, fighting and Arielle’s declarations of being “Goth” and that everyone was an idiot. She was warned but to no avail and so by the time we got back home she was very ticked off at me that she was no longer allowed to have her friend sleep over during the break. So ticked off in fact that as she was going up to her room (where I had banished her) and I was going down the stairs she yelled out “When you are old I am going to put you in an old age home!” I actually thought that was somewhat amusing but of course didn’t tell her that.
Finally some of the bickering had stopped and as I went to pick up the phone to call the hubby it rang. I answered but was very confused when I was greeted with the following:
“Please state your emergency.”
WTH????
“Umm who is this?”
“You called 911.”
HOLY CRAP! AGAIN! “No….. hang on a minute while I find my children!”
“Is there an emergency? Are your children missing?”
“No…….” Where the hell was Ryley! Sebastian, Zachary and Joshua were all looking at me strangely.
Arielle heard me yell for Ryley and came running downstairs to tell me he was in the washroom.
I told the dispatcher how sorry I was (although not as sorry as Ryley was going to be!) and that I have eight children and wasn’t sure how they were called but there was no emergency.
“Can you check your husband please. Maybe he needs help.” Sure he does but not the kind of help she could offer!
I told her he was in another Province and wasn’t the one who called. She believed me and hung up just as Ryley came down to the kitchen.
“Did you call 911 again?” I yelled.
“NO! I was in the bathroom, it wasn’t me!”
They all knew I was furious. “Don’t lie to me Ryley! What was the problem this time? Last time there was no chicken noodle soup, were we out of toliet paper today?”
“It wasn’t m-“
“Look at Arielle’s face mom! It was her!” Joshua starts yelling.
I informed Joshua that Arielle couldn’t possibly have done such a thing and was about to lay it into Ryley when Arielle blurts out “Okay it was me so what!”
I was stunned. She was eight. She knew better. She had informed Ryley how wrong that was when he had done it only a few months ago.
“Why did you call 911?” I asked her.
Looking very smug she stated “Oh I wanted the police to know what a bad mother you were to me today.” With that she turned on her heel and marched up to her room.
Needless to say she not only lost having her friend stay over during the break but she had the phone in her room removed and lost out on her afternoon alone with her mom to go see her big sister perform in the musical The Wow Factor at Stage West.
I am pretty certain that if 911 is called again from this house they are going to come quickly and take me away.
Have any of your older children done something impulsive that has led to big troubles?
Until next time
Chantel, momof8crazymonkeys
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I love the comment about sending you to an old age home! Creative – you have to give her that! I would have bust a gut laughing 🙂
My son called 911.. Where we live they send 2 cop cars even if you tell them it was your 22mth old that call by accident. Ridiculously embarrassing having them show up on your street mid afternoon!
Um… once my son, who was about 4 years old at the time, threw a wool blanket into the filling bathtub to get my attention. He did. Right on his butt.
I seriously don’t know how you do it, woman…
(And wowza – your kid has a phone in her room?! My 8 y.o. doesn’t even have anyone to call!! I guess girls are different though, huh?)
You are writing a book right??? Oh my freaking god.