Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
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The kids went back to school yesterday after a week and a half long spring break. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah, all is right with the world again.
Despite my efforts to fill the time with fun and memorable activities, it was an endless stretch of never ending days. I may have danced down the halls after dumping them there, à la the old Staples commercial.
Last night, I got the daily update from Ben’s teacher. The class explored chalk and water. They played on the playground. They painted.
The question of the day was: What did you do over Spring Break? The other kids’ answers were things like The Aquarium, The Train Museum, The Circus, play-dates and the honest “watched TV.”
Ben’s answer? “I went to Disneyland.”
But, we didn’t go to Disneyland. We’ve never been to Disneyland. We’ve never even talked about going to Disneyland.
I’m taking this to mean he thought our house was The Happiest Place on Earth last week.
It’s much easier to swallow than Ben being a pathological liar.
But, either way, he’s delusional.
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Your Ben should meet my Bella, she is delusional as well.Every time i mention going anywhere, even the grocery store she asks..Are we going to California? Never been. WHy the kid is hell bent on going, I don;t know:)LOL
Truthful Mommy recently posted..Daddy Juice My water to wine
LMAO! Can you imagine the relationship between two pathological liars?
Heather Reese recently posted..Im baaaack!
My 5-year-old did the same thing! I was at school for something else on the first day after break, so I peeked in the little parent window for a few minutes. It was just long enough to hear her tell the class she went to Disney World for spring break. We stayed home this year, since we went to Disney for *fall* break. I’m hoping it means she has no concept of time…
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Actually, I think this is a good opportunity to install that Mr Toad’s Wild Ride you always wanted. And redo your bathroom in mouse shaped tiles…hilarious.
I’m So Fancy recently posted..Fancy Wedding Adjustments
Pathological liar or not, I * LOVE * THOSE * JEANS !!!
I want them for meeeeeeeeeeee!!!
I know!!! I just got them at Target & love them, too.
Mine was telling her little friends at day care how she played with the lions and giraffes in the Zoo. If by “playing” she means “cowered in my fathers arms because I was afraid of the big animal” then she is correct…
Just think of all the $$ you saved, and you get to be a great mom in all your son’s eyes….kudos.
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I meant “son’s classmate’s eyes”….
Allison Killins recently posted..From working mom to supermommy
Ha ha ha. I LOVE Ben. Of course he’s not a liar. He felt the love in the heart of your home……that’s such a beautiful thing. :)
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I love it – he’s creating his own grandiose past already. He’ll be a writer!
My son who usually LOVES going to school, asks to go on weekends even, kicked and screamed to go after Spring break.
Remind me to do NOTHING fun next vacation.
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Ha! Now you don’t have to go! Reminds me of my daughter’s writer’s workshop where she wrote her own bio, telling the class we had a dog (we didn’t) and she plays the piano (she didn’t) — learning to pad the resume early. I ain’t mad. btw — now those things are true.
Would you mind if I brought my kids over then?
Not Winning Mom of the Year recently posted..The Chore Fairy
He is most definitely delusional. At least he was delusional in a positive way. He could have told his teacher that you slapped him around all week.
The happiest, or if he’s like my Jackson, the scariest. He spent 97% of our time at Disney freaked out by the giant characters. Perhaps your blog & house are scary? Not that, that’s a bad thing :)
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Hahahahaha…….I’m sure he’s not a pathological liar. ;-)
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LOLOLOL! He’s delusional! OMG. woman you crack me up
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My daughter at 4 talked in such great detail about her friend “Bay-ah” and all their planned sleepovers that my daughter’s teacher thought that she was a real person. This imaginary friend was very low maintenance…I never had to set an extra place or find a spare car seat. We still talk about all 3 of the kids imaginary friends. It was a very entertaining phase of childhood.
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I think your son said he went to Disneyland because he considers you his princess!
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Ben is not a pathological liar–he’s creative. And you, missy, are stalling. The secret, Jill, the secret! What is it?!
I know!!!! It’s killing me. They promise me I can talk about it this afternoon.
That is so hilarious! And yes, I would totally take it to mean that he had the best time of his life, in the happiest place on earth, while he was on vacation from school. Well done, Jill! :) xox
I had an imaginary dog Rex to cope with my parents refusal of buying me one. I had him for years and finally took him to the vet to be put down (in my imagination) so my folks would get me a real one.
Not that I am suggesting you should take kids to Disneyland. That place is freaky. Maybe Smithsonian as a compromise?
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I am curious as to why you think Disneyland is freaky?:)
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I feel uncomfortable around anyone dressed up in imaginary characters. Needless to say I have never been, so I am basing this comment on fears alone.
Maybe my child will one day prove me wrong. Or maybe fear will prevail and while he is visiting with daddy I will sit on the beach with a cocktail.
Stasha recently posted..Spring in my neighborhood
I’m so with you on the freaky Disney thing sister. If my kids wanna go, they’ll have to find somebody else to take them.
Exurban Cowgirl recently posted..Girl Trouble
How extensive was the lie? If he started naming rides you might want to check your search history on your computer.
DC Urban Dad recently posted..With a face like that the Mini-Kamp should be an honorary Capitals captain
Ha! Its gotta be a little boy thing b/c Jake is always making up stories about things that we did that didn’t happen. He told his teacher we went to the moon for vacation.
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I’m the teacher that you sent your children back to. They have Spring Break for a reason. Did you see the look of joy on his teachers face when she was so happy to see him after a week apart? I love my kiddos (more so after a break)!
You would not believe the things I have heard from K and 1st graders after a break! My favorite drawing was of a child’s mother with a duster in her hands, standing on a chair, sweeping away spiders off the light fixture, because “That’s what she does all day”!
Summer is just around the corner! :-)
Well he’s cute, so he can get away with. The lying I mean.
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Maybe he just has a healthy active imagination, and he went to Disneyland in his head?
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That was his answer, too. :)
My son once told his preschool class his dad was a pilot. Guess that sounded better in his little head than small-time contractor/blues singer. I didn’t sweat it.
Exurban Cowgirl recently posted..Girl Trouble
That break made me terrified about school ending in June.
I wonder if my kids went to Disneyland too. I hope they did.
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I like the “Happiest Place On Earth” analogy. Or maybe it was a hint. Maybe he just wants to go to Disneyland, and this was like a passive-aggressive nudge. ;) Just a thought.
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At least now when he starts begging you to take him, you can remind him that he already went.
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“fill the time with fun and memorable activities”… I’m still laughing!
I’d say it was both fun and memorable, he got disneyland out of it didn’t he?!
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Ok my kids have been on break for two weeks so I am about to lose my mind. They don’t go back until Monday.
I live 40 minutes away from Disneyland and most of the time we avoid it. It is not just because the freeway is a bit of a nightmare but you can’t go for less than $500 for the day. It is ridiculous…crazy…nuts.
Mind you that $500 is for two adults and two kids. Add a $100 more for each person beyond that.
It is nuts.
Jack@TheJackB recently posted..The Boy Who Wouldn’t Play Baseball
First, since when did Spring Break become a week and a half? We only had a week when I was in school? Second I thinks Ben’s answer is the cutest thing ever!
A Mommy in the City recently posted..Facing the Unknown
ha, my sister once told a teacher that she went to France or something. We lived in rural Prince Edward Island, people were lucky to go to Halifax or maybe even Maine. Not sure where she came up with that one, but she turned out relatively normal. I am sure all will be well.
Theresa recently posted..All done Pig
I say chalk that one up to wishful thinking. Or perhaps the little guy is getting sly and giving you a big hint. ha ha
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LOL That’s too funny. I’ve got one more week before I send my kiddos back to school. We have year-round school here, so they will have been out of school for four weeks. I may become insane. And because I’m four hundred weeks pregnant, we don’t get to go anywhere fun like most of their friends have. Good times.
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I guess I should be happy our Spring Break was only a week long. I’m already dreading summer, though. Evil, evil children.
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I would totally embrace the lie, by the end of the week he will really believe he went. Cheapest Disneyland vacation you ever went on.
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We did nothing. No, that’s not true. We watched movies and barfed. I can’t wait to see what they write about.
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I totally think he was talking about how your place was/is The Happiest Place on Earth and the “place where dreams really do come true”.
No this is awesome….. we once tried to convince the kids that we had already been to Disneyland… only they were too young to remember and to bad about that fire that burnt all the photos…. okay so they bought it and we felt like heels and fessed up….. think of the money we could have saved.
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Ha! That is too funny! :-p
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In second grade I told my Teacher we went to China over summer break. I remember the other kids talking about all the fun places the went over summer break and when it was my turn I looked up at the wall and there was a picture of chinese children. So I just said I went to China. At my Parent/Teacher conference my Teacher asked my mom how our trip to the Orient went. I don’t even remember what she said to me about it later but it was a big joke in my family for years!!!
The Happiest Place on Earth – ha! You crack me up. My son makes things up on a daily basis about what he does and where he goes. Granted, he’s 2-1/2 but he’s going right down the Ben-dom path.
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aww.. !! maybe its where he wanted to be :)
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A week and a half? Try a UK 3 and a bit weeks on for size due to extra Royal Wedding induced extra national holidays. Truth be told, I like the holidays. No early school run, no frantic scramble not to be late… Kids glad to be back to school now though.
That’s all right. My 5 year old was out with the flu for 3 days. In his first writing assignment after going back, he wrote that he got to play video games every day when he was sick. This, of course, was completely untrue. Add to that the fact that I’ve ranted to the school about how they should not substitute a movie for playground time on cold days as screen time is bad for kids when you want them to attend in class–and now his teacher’s like “Yeah, no movie but he can play video games all day. Right.”