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Submitted by no1smaid on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 9:57am

I guess the skids figured I woke him up last night and told him. Either that or once they saw his face couldn't hold the secret that they had already spilled to me.

DH and I actually have a day off together today, he even on days off wakes up early, his body is just on that schedule. The skids were getting ready for school and skid#1 stopped doing her hair to talk to him about the cell phone issue. He thanked her for being honest and asked where the phone was. She explained they had talked to me about it last night while he was sick and they gave me the phone.

So far, so good

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Submitted by no1smaid on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 10:15am

Pawpaw (FIL) went home last night with a final warning to the skids of not to make him have to come back.
DH was up their collective asses all night. Chores, homework being checked, rooms clean -all rooms in the house not just their bedrooms. They are still grounded from everything so there was no computers, games or cell phones last night.

History

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Submitted by no1smaid on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 10:48am

I realised that while I have been giving everyone a blow by blow of what has gone on this week, I never posted a history behind all of family. DH and I were married almost 4 years ago. We met through a blind date set up by of all people, his mother. We clicked and dated for a year and a half then got married.

Updates updates updates... and some seriously pissed off skids!

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Submitted by no1smaid on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 10:04am

Sorry I did not update last evening, it was a busy night at the house.

I came home to my entire house clean, and my FIL standing outside directing the skids on how to clean gutters and wash a house. Apparently he ran out of things inside for them to clean. I went in to start making dinner for everyone and skid#1 showed up wanting to know if she could help. Otherwise known as she wanted to not clean gutters and cook instead, less labor intensive apparently. I told her to ask her pawpaw and if he said it was ok, then fine. Nope. She went back to cleaning gutters.

FIL the Drill Seargant

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Submitted by no1smaid on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 7:16am

Just a quick note as I am at work (not supposed to be on social networking sites and I am sure our IT dept will consider this one!)

FIL woke the skids (and DH and I) up this morning at 4am with the loudest whistle I have ever heard in my LIFE!! By 4:05 the skids were in the backyard doing... PUSHUPS!!! Except Skid#4, his arm is in a cast so he was doing crunches. They got an hour of excercise, including running around the block with FIL following them in a car!!

DH not as dumb as I thought.

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Submitted by no1smaid on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 9:43pm

He did let the kids into the house when he got home then he came to find me. As the nail salon I use is only a mile away from my house and he drove past it on the way home and saw my truck, it apparently did not take a genius to locate me in the coffee shop, sipping coffee and watching CNN on their TV. I truly thought he would start another argument but instead he sat down at the table and apologized.

They still haven't learned.

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Submitted by no1smaid on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 5:00pm

After Orkin came, I had left and went out to run errands. This is not a new practice, my days off I do the grocery shopping, errand running and yes I stopped to get a manicure while I was out. Rarely am I home when the skids get home from school. At about 5pm my cell phone began ringing. The skids had finally managed to walk home after their detention and were apparently upset that I was not home. No, they didn't miss me. They missed access to the house as apparently none of the four of them remembered their house key.

This is almost word for word the conversation:

Disengaging with a quickness. Vent- kind of long.

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Submitted by no1smaid on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 9:31am

I now see why all of you call them skids. I can see all of them as shit stains on underwear right now.

My evening started yesterday with DH attempting to convince me to allow the skids to earn their allowances back. As he is making his case, I am watching a bug crawl up the wall behind him. I removed my shoe, walked past him, smashed it and just looked at him. He shut up. I called Orkin this morning, they will be here to re-spray sometime this afternoon.

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