Reality TV or a day in my laugh

I started writing this post December 15th but I have been way too busy to finish it.

My kids always say that our life is funnier, crazier, and more dramatic than any reality TV show ever on. They will tell me that we should set up video cameras to follow  us and capture the craziness.  Yesterday was one of those days.  My kids do things to make each other laugh all the time.  They also fight and argue and get on each other's nerves.  Think the antics of the Kardashians but without the privilege and money. 

Allysa and I work together so when I drop off the boys at school she is with me.  After working in an office for hours she has a bit of built up energy.  We go to the boys high school and we see Alex across the grass laying down and talking with his girlfriend.  Allysa being the awesome and amazing older sister yells as loud as she can "Alex, Alex, Alex (insert last name here) stop making out with your girlfriend.  Alex come to the car right now your mom is waiting for you"  She continues to yell and laugh until he gets to the car.  Next Allysa sees Kenny and does the same thing to him.  My boys are totally embarrassed but they are laughing most of the way home.

 Then Kenny as we are driving home informs us that his dad wants a family meeting tonight.  He wants to discuss the kids behavior etc.  Kenny is riled up and gets his siblings riled up.  My husband never mentioned anything to me(which is totally out of character for him).  I text my husband and ask him what is going on.  I guess it started off on Monday night that Kenny got annoyed because Cassie and Allysa were snapping at each other over the last day.  Kenny thought it would be a good idea to have a family meeting so he talked to my husband alone.  My husband allowed Kenny to talk and get out his frustration and then said something like well if I see a major problem I will have a family meeting.  In typical 15 year old boy mode Kenny only listened to half of what my husband said, you know the half that acknowledged Kenny's feelings and ideas.  So basically Kenny got everyone riled up and annoyed for no reason at all.  Everyone calmed down and it became back to our peaceful family.

We get home and do a few things.  I continue to check my work email from home but then remember I need to grab the mail.  I go outside and I see 2 pairs of shoes on the ground, both of my boys shoes, the outside broom on the ground and my boys staring at the top of the tree.  You know something bad is happening.  My boys are standing on the damp grass in just socks so of course I ask what are you 2 doing now? Well they said, we threw a ball and it got stuck in the tree so now we are trying to get it out but more things are getting stuck in the tree.  Wow I love those boys and I just ha to laugh and ask what else was stuck in the tree.  They answered they have gotten a shoe stuck but then they threw the other shoe and got the stuck shoe out of the tree but the ball didn't come out.  They then got the rake handle and threw it in the tree and got that stuck.  Next they got a hockey stick stuck in the tree.  Finally Kenny threw something and got the ball out of the tree along with the broom handle out of the tree.  The only slight problem was they came within 3 inches of almost hitting Alex in the head when they fell.  But they were both laughing.

They both came in and Kenny got ice for his hand.  I find out Ken's first idea was to climb the tree to get the ball out but he cut open his hand a bit trying to climb it.  He sat down for a few minutes and relaxed but somehow it turned into Allysa and Kenny wrestling.  Kenny decided to try to hit Allysa with the ice (out of fun and not anger) so Allysa decided to take a spatula and hit Kenny with it.  They let go of their "weapons" and pulled on each others ears.  They finally called a truce and let go.  But they were still laughing and nobody was hurt so I was not about to get upset about this. 

A bit later we were about to sit down for dinner, we had leftovers so everyone individually warmed up there plate.  Allysa did hers first and sat down to have some soda and soup.  Someone said something and Allysa started laughing so hard that soda came out of her mouth and nose.  She then commented that she almost peed her pants from laughing so hard.  I looked at her pants and she was actually wearing my pants. 

After dinner we decided to decorate the tree.  I wanted to do it together as a family when everyone was in a good mood.  It took from Sunday all the way til Wednesday to make that happen.  I hung the lights on the tree by myself but let the kids put on the ornaments.  Allysa has never decorated a tree before.  Her mom always did it to make it look just right.  I love to see my kids decorate it and enjoy the time together.  Our tree does not look perfect, it will not be put in a store display but the kids had so much fun decorating it.  Alex had 2 "baby's first Christmas" ornaments from when he was born.  He took one and gave it to Allysa to mark us having a first Christmas with her.  I marked Allysa's name on it too.  Allysa took a bunch of ornaments and put them right together on the tree.  She said this is for all of the adoptees that haven't found their families yet, we need to stick together.

I love perfect days like this...Merry Christmas.