I did a good mommy thing this week. I was a good mean mommy, which pleases me greatly. I shall explain. Superman got up about 3 a.m. Thursday morning, I am not sure why. He heard something? He needed to pee? Whatever. He went into the living room where he found Diva and Sproing watching The Rock on DVD. That's an R rated movie. It has a little bit of not-much-left-to-the-imagination sex and a whole slew of way nasty violence. It is not a movie they should watch, and I keep it in my room where they don't have access to it. However, Light watched it when she was on spring break last week and left it out for the kidlets to get. They're smart enough to know I don't want them watching it, so they waited until Superman and I were asleep to get up and watch it. He says they had gotten pretty far into the movie by the time he found them. He of course sent them straight back to bed.
So Thursday I was contemplating what would make a good punishment for this offense. I certainly didn't want it to go unpunished, and I know the best punishments are direct consequences. I came up with a good one! Since they had been up at 3 a.m., I decided to put them to bed 3 hours before their regular bedtime. That means Thursday's bedtime was 5:00. Sproing wasn't even home from his friend's house by 5, but he was put to bed as soon as he got home. Diva went to bed quietly pouting, and fell asleep shortly thereafter. Sproing, on the other hand, did not go quiet into that good night. He screamed and cried for an hour and a half. Seriously. He's got some perseverance, doesn't he? Then he complained to his dad that his throat and ribs hurt. I laughed, but Superman held his laughter until later. Good man, that one. Anyway, the boy finally went to sleep and slept pretty hard. He was in an amazingly good mood Friday morning, and had a very good day at school. I feel vindicated.
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We had a string of powerful storms come through here last night. The lightening was awesome! There were reports of tornadoes, but I don't know if any touched down in our neighborhood. There are a good number of trees either uprooted or with large branches down throughout the city. Our back yard is a mess, but nothing serious.
I have some pictures of my new study cave. Superman built a loft bed for Light, and my desk is underneath it. I'll get those posted later today (I hope).
That's all for now.
