Driving Home

Last night we went to Shawn's parent's home last night for his brother's birthday celebration. There isn't much for the kids to do there and so by the end of the night they were bouncing off the walls and I felt like all I was doing was telling them "no" or "stop that"! It was about 8:30 by the time we all piled into the car, I was exhausted and feeling quite beat up and we had a 45 minute car ride ahead of us. So we are driving along and Brayden noticed that there were not a lot of cars on the road and he asked Shawn where all the cars were and Shawn replied that "they were asleep". Then when we saw the next car Brayden mentioned that that car was up and Shawn told him to tell the car "to go to sleep". So for the next couple of cars Brayden and then the girls started telling each car to go to sleep, which was fine, until we got into a busy section of town and they were no longer using soft voices but yelling at each car to "go home and go to sleep"! Frazzled, I turned around and informed the kids that they could no longer yell at the cars but they could count them in their minds. Brayden thought about it for a second and then said, "but mom, there are no cars in my mind so that's not going to work for me!" Shawn and I busted up and it certainly made the rest of the ride more enjoyable. I'm glad that kids are able to keep everything in perspective, mine definitely keep me on my toes!