Life...

Kids are weird.  Anyone who has kids will agree, even silently, even if they would never dare say anything like that in public, and would likely feign shock at my saying so.  "MY children aren't weird!"  Well guess what?  All kids are weird.  And there is nothing wrong with that.  Kids are kids, and as an adult now, I see that kids really are, well, WEIRD!  Take my 11yo for instance.  Today, he is suppose to be helping with a major cleaning job around the house, that needs to be done by Friday.  He has gone out of his way to do everything BUT clean, his final stall tactic being to show me a tiny splinter in one finger and told me that he "just noticed this" yesterday.  Well, judging from the level of mild infection, he knew this splinter had been in his finger more than just a day!  So I did the only thing I could think to do.  I grabbed a pin, sprayed it down with rubbing alcohol, and went to work removing the splinter.  Believe me, with him being the middle of my three kids, this wasn't my first go-round at splinter removal, and likely won't be my last, either.  I put a tiny hole in the top near the brown spot I could only assume was the splinter...  And that's when the WAILING started.  He was writing around, wailing that he was in AGONY, and I wasn't even touching him!  lol  Then, to try to work some of the infection out, but also hoping it would carry the splinter with it, I gently, GENTLY, rubbed the pin shaft over the spot.  Oh, BOY you would've thought I had just cut off his finger!  Now don't get me wrong, I know that it probably DID hurt a bit, but I've had to remove splinters from my own hands, and in worse condition than his, so I'm fairly certain it didn't hurt THAT badly!  The splinter took about ten seconds to remove once I got him to stand still, but then of course I had to clean the area.  I sat there for a good three minutes, not touching him other than holding that finger, as he wailed at me that IT HURT!!!  SOOO BAD!!!  It was seriously the funniest thing I had seen all day.  And then, OF COURSE, he couldn't help with the cleaning because his finger hurt "so bad!"  lol  I love my kids, but they sure are weird!  :)