Mr Miyagi, the Military Channel, and how to get boys to sleep

There have been so many things to blog about over the past several weeks, it's almost caused a total mind block. It's like we live these multiple lives everyday where you're everything from king to a peasant depending what social circle you find yourself in. Literally, between the house, church, and work I find myself as the commander in chief, counselor, accountant, taxi driver, athlete, geek, drummer, handy man, coach, mentor, maid, garbage man, cook..... I could go on and on (and so could you, I'm in good company). That being said - I wouldn't want it any other way. It just feels good sometimes to actually put it down on paper.

 

I do want to report to the one or two people that have been following this blog that my oldest daughter is making me so proud! I love my time with her and she is making so much progress in making better decisions. Let's call her "Bob" for the purposes of this blog. Bob has regained her straight "A" status again according to her teachers! Most of all, she is doing a great job in how she reacts to 7th grade drama.

During the winter blizzard of 2011, those of us hit by massive amounts of snow had to find ways to stay sane while we were working through the deep freeze. We were fortunate that we never lost power, and most of all that COX never failed us either. During this time, my son was able to get me hooked on the Military Channel (tMC). We spent our time watching the "WWII in Color" series, shows about the greatest military leaders in history, and my favorite, "Decisions that shaped the world". Tonight during tMC's running of what vaulted the US into WWII (Pearl Harbor), my son provide his own insight as to the happenings of December, 1941. He acted out the conversation between President Roosevelt and the Imperial leader of Japan after Japan bombed Hawaii:

Roosevelt: "Word up Mr. Miyagi, I'm 'bout to drop a mushroom cloud on your crib. Call me back when your guts stop glowing and you figure out the crane won't save you this time"

Japanese Imperial Leader: fast busy tone only..... he lost his cell service :)

That answers what if my  kids were kings for a day...

Lastly, boys and bedtimes. If you have been a volunteer for anything that required you to supervise 15-20 boys, who after a day of being wild and crazy didn't want to go to sleep on time, you may want to hear this. This weekend I had a great time as a volunteer at Super Start here in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. At the end of a very eventful day on Friday, lights out was at midnight. At first, the boys wouldn't stop talking, and playing their games, keeping their very tired adult supervisor awake (ARRRRRRR!). Using my big daddy voice, I told the boys they had 5 minutes to get silent or they would be subject to wall squats until I decided they were tired enough to sleep. I never heard another sound... literally. That tells me either the boys thought I said "wall swats" or that somewhere down the line they had the same experience I had when I was 13 years old. I had a math teacher once use wall squats as discipline on me for talking to much. My legs never burned so bad (I went for 15 minutes) and it was a great alternative to swats. A shovel works too, but that is another story for another day....

Mr. Miyagi never had to face my 10 year old son. I like how he rolls....