Hi Family, I'm a mother of three, and throughout this parenting journey I've learned a lot of things. Patience, fortitude, stretching a gallon of milk for a whole week! But the best times are when I play my parental games. They never know when I'll do it, so it's my sneaky pleasure to play tricks on my kids. Here's a vignette of the last trick I played on my 15 yr old dtr.
I picked her up from school as usual and on the ride home she started talking about the upcoming Winter Formal. Of course, the converstion turned toward boys and she was discussing this young man named Nathan. So she's going on and on about this kid and I could tell that she has a crush:
Me: " Do you like this Nathan person..'
She: "Yes"
Me: "Does he like you the same way you like him?"
She:" Yeah, i think so...we talk a lot about stuff. he gave me his AIM address"
Me:"Well don't push him...boys are fragile...just be friends right now"
She: "Ok"
Me: "Is he White?"(I already knew but I asked her anyway)
She: (hesitated)"yes"
Me:"I don't want you liking or dating White Boys!"
She:
Me:

The look on her face was priceless!!! She stammered and tried to reply but she was so outdone!
Gotcha kiddo!

Do you play little games with your kids just for the fun of it? Parents need some comic relief between diapers and college!
MystereDancer

my kids asked me why are their mother is black and I'm white.. I said.. we are a delicious oreo cookies!!! yum yum
my daughter put her hand toward my face and said, "Dad, you're stupid"

Well there she goes.. out smarted me again.. heheheheheh

LOL I love that one!!! I'm going to have to put that one in my memory bank when my daughter turns 15 or 16. Too funny!

My mom and I used to leave notes for each other all over the house as a joke. One weekend it was just us at the house and I was driving her everywhere. We were going out the back to the car and I thought she was right behind and I ended up closing her in the gate of course she got mad and cussed me out. The next day we came home from church and being the good daughter I am, I parked on the front so she could get out on to the sidewalk...you know curbside service. Turns out our neighbor was having a party and someone parked in front of our mailbox. She got out and I walked around to unlock the door, next thing I know she fell in the hidden hole where a mesquite tree used to be in our yard. She told me to go see if my sister was in the house, but she wasn't. Eventually, I helped her in and bandaged her up. To get back at me for laughing, a few weeks later she left me a note saying she needed me to run some errands. It turns out, she left other notes for me to go to these other places (she knew people that worked at these places) and get the most random stuff. When I got back to the house I parked on the front and someone was parked in front of the mail box. Let's just say I fell in the hole with all that stuff in my arms and had stickers all over me and there's mom sitting on the front porch laughing hysterically. I told her I got all her stuff. She was like "I didn't think you'd actually do it. I thought you would've figured out you were just driving around town for two hours looking for junk. This is me getting back at you for closing me in the gate and laughing when I fell. When you tripped and all the stuff fell that was an added bonus." That was hilarious!!

OMG Girl, that was so funny!!! I like your Mother's style!!!
MystereDancer