The summer of 2005, at Victoria Beach ... I had to go to work in the city and the kids and Tom were together without a maternal influence at the cottage.  Who knew what would happen when 3 unique personalities started negotiating with their unique father?

 

Mom lets us ...

• Play with matches
• Play with the stove
• Always play with firecrackers
• Set our hair on fire
• Roller skate on the stairway
• Drink beer
• Play with electricity
• Never comb our hair (N)
• Eat as much gum as we want
• Scribble on the table and walls
• Put things in our belly buttons (N)
• Play with the barbeque
• Break our glasses (G)
• Go to the dentist and get braces (N)
• Cut our own hair (Tom)

Dad lets us ...

• Play with a chainsaw
• Pee on the bonfire (K)
• Take out our eyes with sticks (G)
• Knock out our front teeth (N)
• Play with pots and pans (K)
• Be rude to our guests (K)
• Hang on the chandelier (N)
• Jump and turn on the ceiling fan (G)
• Hammer nails into the table (K)
• Go to karate every single night (N)
• Break our arms and legs (G)
• Destroy the forks, plates and spoons (K)
• Go to the dentist and show our private parts (K)

Mom never makes us ... brush our teeth!!