Have you ever stopped to think about who actually runs your house. Sure well you may pay the bills and like my wife and I, we make the big decisions. However when it comes to daily routine it has become apparent to us that we answer to a 40’’ tall second grade dictator named Maci.
Since 2 years ago when Maci came to live with us she has flipped our lives upside down. Our daily routines now revolve around her. We have to make sure that we wake her up nicely or she will be in a bad mood and start throwing a fit. If this happen we are all in trouble. Are you kidding me I was damn luck if my parents would just open the door and yell “get your ass up your going to be late for school”!
Maci also is very fashion conscious if she doesn’t like her outfit "ohh" she will let you know about. If it is anything other than skinny jeans she is pissed. This is a child that has not wore the same outfit yet since the beginning of school. For crying out loud it takes her 10 min to go through her shoes to coordinate them with her outfit. She is freaking seven years old! Yeah and that is right she has that much clothes. I was lucky to get three shirts and two pair of jeans to last me all school year. One year I had to wear snow boots all year round. I was the real life Napoleon Dynamite!
We have to get her breakfast which has to be either Coco Puffs or waffles with dark chocolate…regular chocolate is not an option! Then it is off to have mom style her hair and if she is not happy with it trust me you will redo it or you will feel the wrath of the second grade furry! Last week she told my wife "Why do I wear such a great outfit if your just going to ruin it with my hair style". I bit my tongue and counted to 10 and tryed to remember she is seven. If I ever talked to my parents that way the tooth fairy would freaking love me because I would still be picking my teeth up off of the floor.
Anyways, we drive her to the end of the development wait on her bus, pull up next to the bus because it is to far for her to walk, her book bag is to heavy….blah…blah…blah. Help her out of the truck and walk her to the bus. Thinking back I remember having to run down my parents half of a mile drive way and stand in the rain or snow then wait on the bus. 90% of the time my mom wouldn’t even get up in the morning we would get ready, eat and leave without even seeing a parent. I’m talking second grade I was doing this on my own. Boy does this kid have it bad, parents who actually give a damn.Wish parents cared a little when I was growing up.
The first thing out of her mouth when she gets out of school is “I AM HUNGRY”!!!! If she doesn’t immediately eat she turn into a freaking Gremlin or something. For example yesterday she ate a chocolate waffle for breakfast, snack in the morning at school, lunch, afternoon snack, had to have a 2 serving package of Roman Noodles soon as she got home. Through a fit because we wouldn’t let her have another package because we were going to do supper later. She got dressed for ballet then took her to Burger King where she had 9pc chicken fries and whopper Jr. Luckily they got is right because if she would have had ketchup on the burger someone was going to get punched in the freaking knee cap. After Ballet she changed in to her coordinating pajamas and demanded a bed time snack. I don’t understand WTF is going on here what happened to three meals a day. There is no snacks when I was young. This kid is eating every two hours. It’s a good thing she isn’t a baby nursing because I have the feeling she would deflate a titty in no time. My wife and I eat maybe 2 times a day.I am glad she has a high metabolism or I would have a lil Sumo wrestler on my hands.
I have to look and laugh at us.What the hell happened to us? I was a rocker with a bad boy attitude now I am going to Salena Gomez concerts with a seven year old. There is a glitch in the Matrix here I never would have seen me doing things like this. We worry about making sure that we tip toe and cater to our daughter to make sure she doesn’t get up set and use phrases like "when we pick Maci up we HAVE to get her a snack before going to the store or she is going to get upset".
Okay….I could go on and on with my whining and bitching about how we answer to our lil Diva.
Wait one more thing…I have come to the realization that she uses the Nickelodeon and Disney channel to fuck with us. When she comes into a room the tv HAS to go to Sponge Bob or some other shit like that. However soon as my wife and I leave the room she turns it to LMN, Storage Wars, COPS, Behind Bars, American Pickers, MTV or Comedy Central. Soon as we come back into the room Jr. Hitler flips it back to cartoon hell. She is just toying with us!
Don’t get me wrong she is a cool kid. We love her very much, she is a lot of fun and couldn’t imagine her not being in our lives. However we have come to realize that we have become puppets to a seven year old. Its time to cut the strings…. IT IS ON LIKE DONKEY KONG!