people in the city?

today's been a particularly taxing day. jameson and natalia have both been in quite the "funk" lately. naughty. sassy. whiney. fighting. yuck.

so, this evening i'd had enough. i warned them 2-3-4 times while trying to get them in the bath that if they didn't stop fighting/whining/yelling/sassy talking that they were going to go straight to bed after the bath (at 6:30pm)...without dinner! *gasp!*

well, they kept right at it.

so, i washed, rinsed, dried, clothed and put them to bed. i'm pretty sure they didn't believe i meant it.

all the while i'm putting each of them in their beds, i'm telling them that "tomorrow is a new day. tomorrow, we're going to all be happy. mommy and daddy will be happy because jameson and natalia are playing nicely, talking nicely, and not fighting. jameson and natalia will be happy because when mommy and daddy are happy, we ALL get to do fun things!"

to which, natalia replies, "just like the people in the city?!"

::crickets chirp::

"right, like people in the city."

i have no idea where that came from, but it gave me a chuckle amongst all the chaos.