{"id":4024,"date":"2011-10-26T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2011-10-26T19:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T23:07:58","slug":"is-dinner-done-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2011\/10\/26\/is-dinner-done-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Dinner Done YET????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dinner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4025\" title=\"dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dinner-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me start off by saying I love being a Mom, I <em>really<\/em> do.\u00a0 But my kids drive me utterly insane sometimes!\u00a0 I seriously growled at my youngest tonight.\u00a0 Okay, first off I sleep maybe 3-4 hours a night, which is typically for <em>any<\/em> Mom.\u00a0 I get up at 5:30 a.m. and my day starts.\u00a0 Getting two boys ready for school, honestly not too hard, and I think if I had girls it would be way harder.\u00a0 Boys really don&#8217;t care if they smell, if their clothes are wrinkled or if they even match.\u00a0 Put a hat on and you don&#8217;t even have to comb their hair!\u00a0 Then I go to work <del>on time, <\/del>closest to the time I&#8217;m supposed to be there.\u00a0 I work for 6 hours and then come home to those 2 wonderful boys who have thrown their backpacks, sneakers, lunchboxes and whatever other crap they brought home that the teachers don&#8217;t want in their classroom.\u00a0 The kitchen table is there, but not visible under homework piles.\u00a0 The sink is usually filled with empty ice cream bowls, and whatever else they were able to inhale before I got home.\u00a0 Tonight <strong>Thing 2<\/strong> was starving, which is pretty normal, but still, the kid does <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NOT<\/strong><\/span> stop eating.\u00a0 Granted he looks like he skips every meal, but he inhales pretty much any food in the house.\u00a0 Since I got home at 3pm I saw him eat mandarin oranges, a strawberry hoodsie cup, a small bag of chips, and a bowl of Apple Jacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I made a whole chicken tonight for dinner.\u00a0 At <strong>4:45pm <\/strong>it started, <em>&#8220;is dinner done yet?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Um, no, it&#8217;s 4:45 pm honey, nobody below the age of 65 eats at 4:45 pm!&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em><strong>5pm<\/strong> &#8211; <em>&#8220;is dinner done yeeeeet?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;No, not yet, you just asked me that.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em><strong>5:15 pm <\/strong>&#8211; <em>&#8220;Mooooooooooooom, is dinner done yeeeeeeeeeet?????&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;<strong>NO<\/strong> it&#8217;s <strong>NOT<\/strong> done yet.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;But the timer says 10 minutes!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Well honey, I have to keep basting the chicken so the timer on the stove is <strong>NOT<\/strong> the time when it will be done.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Well I&#8217;m staaaaaaaaarving!&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>Okay, this is the kid that just ate a ton of food, including a bowl of cereal an hour before!\u00a0 <strong>5:30 pm <\/strong>&#8211; <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to get my place ready at the table to eat.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Honey (said while grinding my teeth), dinner is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span> done yet, and it will be another half an hour or so.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;WHAT?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll starve by then.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em><strong>5:45 pm <\/strong>&#8211; 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