Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Crazy-Making Conversations

Circular Conversation #1 (at home on a cold winter day...yesterday):

Me:  "Is it a little cold in here?  Lizzie are you cold?"

Lizzie (hugging herself and pretending to shiver):  "Yes.  Brrr.  I'm cold."

Me:  "Seth are you cold?"

Seth:  "No.  Are you?"

Me:  "A little.  Matthew, are you cold?"

Matthew:  "No."

Lizzie:  "Not me."

Me:  "What do you mean, Lizzie?  You just told me you were cold.  Are you cold or not?"

Lizzie:  "Hmm.  Yes or no, yes or no."

Me:  "Lizzie, are you cold?"

Lizzie:  "No way, not me.  Hot.  Yes, hot now."


Circular Conversation #2 (while in the car last Thursday, driving to gymnastics):

Seth:  "How long til we get to gymnastics, Mom?"

Me:  "Not long; just a few minutes."

Seth:  "No, how long?"

Me: "I don't understand."

Seth:  "How many miles?"

Matthew (looking out the van window, day-dreaming):  "Kilometres...Mom uses kilometres."

Seth:  "How many ki-no-no-meters Mom?"

Me:  "Well, I'd guess about three."

Lizzie (outraged):  "We only have three minutes in gymnastics?  Why?"

Matthew (fully alert now, outraged):  "What??!  We have to leave gymnastics after only three minutes?  Wwhhyy?"

Me:  "No, no, no, guys - it' ok.  Seth was asking about how far it was to gymnastics - -"

Lizzie (wailing):  "Mooommmmy, I want to stay long at gymnastics...why you make me leave?"

Matthew (crying, apoplectic):   "Mom! Mom! Why do we have to leave early?"

Seth (crying now, too):  "Mom, what's up?  Why we staying for only three minutes?  Don't want to go home yet..."


I've since given up on talking.  I now focus my attention on the brick wall my head is pounding on.


P.S.  It's later today and I just had to share one more (short) conversation from this afternoon:

Lizzie:  "Mommy, may I go upstairs?"

Me:  "Of course you may.  Matthew and Seth just went upstairs, too."

Lizzie (with a whine, and dissolving into tears):  "But I don't want to - I want to stay with you!"

Me (throwing my hands up in the air):  "Lizzie, if you want to stay here with me, that's fine...if you want to go upstairs, that's fine too!"

Lizzie (on the floor now, wailing):  "No go upstairs - stay with you!"

Yikes...what's a girl to do??!

13 comments:

  1. Lovelovelove! Laughing hysterically! Those are awesome conversations!

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  2. oh my word, that is my house!! Sometimes I find it is easier to NOT point out something interesting, for example, when we are driving, than to point it out and start a big round of "where?" "there" "what?" "I didn't see it", and then misunderstandings........
    -Colleen

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  3. Thank you for that great laugh this morning!!!

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  4. Um, yeah. Sadly (for me), I totally get it. But it's really funny reading someone else's examples :)

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  5. Thanks...honestly, sometimes I really would be better off not talking at all...I just seem to get myself into trouble and end up having to deal with copious amounts of tears!

    Ruth

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  6. Oh Ruth, these are SO funny! Sorry to be laughing at your expense, but.... I am TOTALLY laughing at your expense. Hilarious. Thanks for sharing!

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  7. I totally get it. It is funny to read someone else's examples. At my house one kid asks me a question. Before I get to answer it another kids answers it incorrectly. Then within seconds everyone is yelling and angry about how unfair I am because of the answer they all decide I gave. Uggh.

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  8. Oh, I SO TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS. That was like reading a script from our family -- except that in our house, one of my older girls just can NOT take it, and explodes in frustration and irritation. Every single time. Lord, have mercy on us all.

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  9. Love the gymnastics story especially! Laughed out loud!!!! Love it!

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  10. Thanks...the funniest part for me was having to decide which conversations of the hundreds to include in this post...cause, like you Gwen, it happens ALL day long!

    Ruth

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