And the pot calls the kettle black...

Sometimes the most fun part of being a mother is realizing the irony of it all...

Today after work was no different than any other day. After getting Kendyl from school I decided to run to the store before we picked up Lauryl, just to make the stop a little faster/easier. I gave in and let (ok, truth be told, I offered in order to stop the whining) Kendyl get a donut. We went up and down a few aisles in silence as she munched and I grabbed what we needed.

We get to the checkout aisle and I'm talking to the cashier/fishing out my rewards card/looking for my wallet and I see it out of the corner of my eye. It being my 6 year old daughter trying to slyly tuck a Reese Cup into her coat! I calmly tell her to put it back while giving her the "oh, you are so gonna pay" look that we all have.

I pay for my groceries and we walk out of the checkout aisle. I squat down to her level and calmly and quietly explain to her that what she was doing is stealing and that it is very bad and that if a cop caught her he could arrest her, or me! I tell her she will get in the car and she will be silent on the way to get Lauryl because in all I honesty I'm steaming mad.

As I'm pulling out of the lot, I reach down to grab my cell phone and I feel it, it being the piece of wax paper that Kendyl's donut was on. The piece of paper I had tucked in my pocket so I wouldn't forget to tell the cashier that I already fed my kid a donut and still needed to pay. The single reminder that works every time when I don't catch my kid trying to steal candy! OMG, after the lecture I JUST gave, I realize that I didn't pay for the donut. Did I admit that to Ms. Kendyl- heck no! I guarantee though that I'll be adding a donut to my next purchase because it will eat me alive until I do.

Adding to the irony is Kendyl's request to read her children's Bible as her bedtime story this evening. I read 4 sections and had already given the "this is the last one warning". For some reason I decided I'd go ahead and read one more because she was so enthralled. Go figure that the next part dealt with the 10 commandments and I got to drive home my 'Thou shalt not steal' lesson in a manner that was incredibly impactful to her and gave me one more chance to feel shame as a donut pilferer...