The Joys of Parenthood!

Ok... so the teenagers... sigh... I have one... only one thank goodness...

So as a mother you work so hard to bring your child into the world... hold their little hands... teach them right from wrong... teach them not to burn themselves on the stove... bask in the glow of their admiration of you...

Then they hit puberty and you left pondering where you went wrong...

How did I overnight become stupid?

Ice Cream... first thing I should have taught my child is you don't mess with momma's ice cream...

Sunday afternoon - I get the craving... gotta have some... just gotta have it... so I head off to the store and buy ice cream for all of us... hubby eats his... kid eats her's... I eat 1/2 of mine and put the rest in the freezer... seemingly safe move...

Monday - I get home from work...
Kid - "Can I have your ice cream"
Me - "uhh no.."

Monday - After dinner....
Kid - "Are you going to eat your ice cream?"
Me - "Not right now... I will eat it later"
Kid - "So I cannot have it?"
Me - "Uhhh no"

Tuesday - I am late coming home... had to stop at the grocery store on the way home... call the kid from the car to come out and help carry in groceries... pull up... and there is my wonderful daughter... pretty as ever... dutifully waiting on the front porch to help her old ma carry in the bags... with a huge chocolate smear on the right side of her face...

I greet her as normal... carry my load in the house... she goes out to the car to get her bags... I walk to the freezer... hmm... no bowl of ice cream... shocking... I look in the sink... hmm... empty bowl... shocking...

So kid walks in the house... and I ask...
Me - "Did you eat my ice cream?"
Kid - "No"
Me - (while eyeballing the chocolate smear) "Really? You didn't eat my ice cream?"
Kid - "uhh no"
Me - "Ok... so... let me make sure I understand this correctly.... You... didn't eat... MY ice cream? yet it is no longer in the freezer... and the bowl it was in... just magically appeared in the sink?
Kid - "I didn't eat your ice cream!!"
Me - "Ok... so... wait wait wait... hmmm.. YOU didn't eat my ice cream... and its not in the freezer... and the bowl is in the sink... so how did it get there?
Kid - "I thru it out"
Me - "You thru out my ice cream?"
Kid - "Yes"
Me - "You thru out chocolate-brownie-fudge ice cream??"
Kid - "Yes"
Me - (Still eyeballing the smear) "You thru it out... you didn't eat it?"
Kid - "Yes mom... why do you not believe anything I ever say?!?!"
Me - (laughing) "Cause my darling daughter... you want me to believe.. you THRU out Chocolate-brownie-fudge ice cream... and you didn't eat it... and by the way... did you HAPPEN to look in the mirror BEFORE you decided to lie to me?!?"
Kid - (shock and horror at my response)
Me - "Cause.. my child... you have MY ice cream smeared on YOUR face"

Sigh... she will learn...