first adventure

seriously am going to hibernate or sign up of the military so I can go on long deployment and tell my husband "payback time" when our daughter reaches her teenage years. She is 6 1/2 years old but she things she is 6 going on 16! Today was one of those days where we had to "follow" through or we would have forever ruined any credibility in our kids eyes when it comes to threatening them with "taking things away" or "I will call your father, or grandfather" etc.

Simplest thing as in eating a ham sandwich for lunch before going to a baseball game is all she had to do, but NO, she had to put up an attitude, she had to stall, she had to lay on the couch, she had to lay on the floor, she had to twirl her hair around her finger. Basically do anything BUT eat that sandwich. We had told her that if she wouldn't finish before as specific time, or at least if she wouldn't show us that she was attempting to at least stat to eating it, that we would call Papa Joe and ask him if she could come stay with him while we would go to the baseball game, just us and Mr. Man! She cried, she screamed, she chocked on her own spit almost she screamed so much. She can be such a drama queen. It came to that moment that we had to make a decision, do we follow through or do we give in? As hard as it was, we did what we had to do, we followed through. We called Papa Joe, asked him if she could come stay with him and thankfully he completely backed us up on it and was cool with it. Miss P. was devastated but I am hoping she learned her lesson. Only time will tell though.

I'm hoping to keep this blog as a way for me and Hubby to keep stories for the kids alive. We go through so much fun with them every single day but yet we forget it so easily. Some things are fun yet others not so much fun, however, you can always find humor in anything after the fact! We are also in the process of surprising them with a HUGE Disney World trip in two weeks, well less than two weeks and that is also the reason behind this blog. I want to write about this moment as I know they will have so much fun, plus I am having so much fun planning everything leading up to the vacation that they have no clue of and wont have any clue off until the morning we fly off to Disney :-)

Don't be surprised also if some posts will be written by my husband or if some posts will be written in Icelandic or partially in Icelandic and partially in English as I am going to be doing this for my family back home too.

Love,
Sig