I love peacocks. It started with a love for the movie The Other Guys and the Marky Mark peacock line. Friends started giving me peacock gifts – compacts, cards, candles, etc. Gwyneth doesn’t understand the reference but she knows I like peacocks and loves them now too.
We found this costume at Gymboree and both went a bit looney. Gwyneth is going to be a little fairy peacock for Halloween. I ordered all the pieces online and now we sit back and wait for it to arrive. Gwyneth asked to check the mail about 47 times today to see if it arrived.
I received a call about 9:30 this morning from the school nurse saying that Gwyneth was in the clinic and had thrown up. I quickly went over to pick her up. I gave her big hugs and asked if she was feeling ok and she just buried her head in my side.
We got in the car and I kept asking if she was ok and if everyone had treated her kindly and she was very, very quiet. Finally she said “can we go home and check the mail?”. Wait, What????
After a very long conversation and a lot of tears she finally fessed up. She didn’t throw up at school. She had fibbed. She just wanted to get home and check the mail for her costume.
This girl is in big, big trouble. She lost her play date privileges for the week and she won’t be able to wear the costume until trick or treating next month. She would have worn it every day for the next two months so I can assure you this is a big punishment. (I probably should send the costume back, but let’s be honest – I still really LOVE peacocks.)
What a naughty but clever girl.
Feeling a bit down on my parenting skills Annabelle came home with this fabulous pick from the library. I asked why she checked this out and she said “I don’t think I’m a bully, but I should make sure!”. Great, just great.
I did all the disciplining today because B had to work late….and let’s be honest, when I told him he couldn’t stop laughing so he wouldn’t have been much help. It was not happiness around our house today. Whenever I feel like a crappy mom or think we had a bad day, I like to peak in on them when they are asleep and see how sweet they still are (and they can’t talk back to me!). They are good girls and Gwyneth will make a very cute peacock next month…
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