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Monday, January 14, 2008
We have a game at our house that Colin and I like to play. It's really just a version of "Chicken." We both listen to a screaming child/children and ignore it as long as humanly possible, hoping that the other one will do something about it. The key to winning is to act busier than the other individual...too busy to do anything about said screaming child/children. Don't try to use the "I've been dealing with this all day" excuse. It doesn't work. Trust me, I've tried. But apparently the, "She needs to eat" tag line works every time for Colin (not without receiving mass amounts of eye rolling from me). The game is also fun to play at night. Colin's key strategy to winning at night is to act like he "accidentally" elbowed me in his sleep, as if to wake me up to alert me that one of our children in screaming. My winning strategy to kick him back.
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Ya'll are hilarious! Thanks for the laugh!
We totally do that! Only Jeff's strategy is to act like he can't hear. Like totally deaf.....
We played the same game, though Derek would shake the bed instead of elbow me. With all those hormones, he would have been elbowed back in a "special place."
We then made a rule, before 5 am it was his duty, and after 5 am it was my turn.
Michael can sleep through Allisyn screaming right next to him. Therefore he is not allowed claim he cannot hear her during the day.
We play that game when it comes to getting off the couch to answer the phone or to turn the fan off or do laundry or take a shower.
In fact, I'm not sure we'll be able to take care of our children when we have them because neither of us ever wants to get up.
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