B+C+B+C+B+C: Sibling strategizing

Monday, March 28, 2011

Sibling strategizing

Brianna: "I'd like to call this meeting to order. ORDER! Everyone here?
Bennett: "Here"
Courtney: "Present"
Brianna: "No presents. We have to hurry - mom's busy making dinner. Let's get the schedule for tonight figured out. Who can do the early bedtime shift?"
Bennett: "I got it. I took a short afternoon nap, so I'll go to bed around 6:30. That way mom and dad can't plan any family outings away from the house, since Dad gets home about that same time tonight."
Courtney: "Great. And I just woke up from a long evening nap, so I'll stay wide awake and playful til 9:45."
Brianna: "Perfect. And of course I can't fall asleep until all you babies are out, so I'll be up til ten."
Bennett: "Okay. And then Mom will do her usual compulsive cleaning bedtime routine, so she won't go to sleep until 11pm. Right when she's just about drifted off to dreamland, I'll starting howling for my first night feeding."
Courtney: "Great. Then I'll take the 2am feeding."
Bennett: "Then I think I can manage a 3am."
Brianna: "And I'll wake up begging for water at 3:05, so Dad will have to get up too."
Courtney: "Brianna, do you want to really chug it down, so you can wet the bed around 4am?"
Brianna: "No, let's give her a break. I'm totally over that anyway - I'm more into faking nightmares now"
Bennett: "Whatever. You just know you won't get pancakes for breakfast if you don't use the potty."
Brianna: =P
Courtney: "Hey now guys - no arguing. We have to stay united and keep our team together. It's us against them. We can win!"
Bennett: "No worries - my 5:30am morning wake time always gets them. I'll be giggly and happy til the sun comes up at 7!
Brianna: "Right. Then you go down and we get up, right Court!"
Courtney: "Right!"
Brianna: "Ok team, remember the plan. Stick to it. I'll sneak snacks out to you if she traps you in that playpen during the day."
Courtney and Bennett: "Yessssssss!"

9 comments:

Unknown said...: Bwahahahahahaha! I LOVE this!!! :D; March 29, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Malerie said...: So funny, Chelsea! This is perfect. I love it. And Charlie has the same weird balding pattern as Bennett. You would never guess they were the same boys from the front as the back.; March 29, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Ash said...: ROTFLMchucknorrisOff; March 29, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Unknown said...: LOL :); March 29, 2011 at 1:58 PM
Crystyne said...: That is great!; March 29, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Ashley said...: That is really funny and clever, I really can't imagine trying to keep little ones on a schedule and to get them to all sleep and everything. When I come up there, it would be fun to get Alli and Brianna together.; March 29, 2011 at 9:26 PM
Kara said...: So true and so funny it almost made me cry! Oh wait, I think the tears might be from the truth and not the funny part. Keep up the good work holding it all together.; March 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Debbie said...: Thanks for the inside scoop. How could they ever stagger the whole experience without the "plan"!; March 31, 2011 at 3:36 PM
Sally Jackson said...: hillarious!! i always know where to come for a laugh!; April 2, 2011 at 6:48 PM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Monday, March 28, 2011

Sibling strategizing

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