The Family Chalkboard
We have a small chalkboard on our kitchen wall. We take turns leaving messages and drawing funny pictures. The original message always morphs over time, until after several days, someone decides to erase the whole thing and start anew.
Several weeks ago, my inlaws came for a visit. Taylor, my son, drew a likeness of Hitler on the board along with the words: We Love Hitler. He was SO hoping that I would not catch this before Nana & Papa arrived. He wanted some shock and awe. Is my kid nuts? He experienced some shock and awe; I assure you. We erased it before they arrived.
Courtney, our artist, draws lovely pictures that we enhance by adding our own touches and improvements.
We leave quotes from movies too. The other day, Tay wrote this one from Dodgeball: "That's me taking the bull by the horns. It's a metaphor, but that really happened."
We have fun with it. This morning, I erased a happy face drawing and wrote: Mommy Rules!
Usually, we give a new message or drawing a day's grace before editing it. But, NOoooooo. Within a few hours, it was changed to: Mommy Reeks!
I get no respect from these people!
posted by Jamie Dawn @ 29.11.05
36 Comments:
OUCH!!!!!!!
Kids..
We have a small blackboard too, but my husband uses it to help him remember when he changes the furnace filters, etc. Occasionally he will leave a suggestion or two for me - and they DEFINITELY have to be erased before company comes!
We used to have a whiteboard at a sandwich shop i worked at in highschool. I know what you mean about the morphing messages. Can you imagine what a dozen hormone-happy kids can do with the word pepperoni?
Hi Jamie, we had a graffiti board located in the toilet, everyone would write their little jokes etc. on it.
One of my sons'Marcus, expanded the idea to the whole toilet becoming a giant graffiti area, you get some very funny comments.
Too much family fun going on there, Missy!
There's a guy at work named Josh. For some reason, somebody started the goofy tradition of writing "Hi Josh" on every surface imaginable. Walls, table tops, the sides of dumpsters, etc. The funny thing is that most of those messages have been modified by now to say things like "High Josh," "Shy Josh," Sh*t, Josh!" and "Why Josh?" At least there's some variety in the graffiti now.
The family chalkboard sounds like an idea that I might well adopt. My children are irreverant, I might as well have the evidence from time to time...
RCS
u either need to hide the chalk..of kick them out:)
Jamie, i think that it would be a great idea to take a picture of the chalk board every so often (every day would be a lot of pictures) and save them. later make a scrap book with the chalkboard pictures in it to give to your kids, i know i would love to have something like that of my childhood. or if you have a digital camera, post the pictures here on the website.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas
I like Benjamin's suggestion about a scrapbook. Some of those entries would be a hoot to show THEIR kids someday.
My youngest son was always borrowing a few bucks from us, and we'd keep track on the chalkboard. Inevitably, his $10 would bloom to $100 or $1000 when his siblings walked by the board.
Lucky you....children with developing senses of humor, talent, and (Mommy Reeks!)...pure evil. Do take some photos so you do not forget these precious board comments and photos.
Being married to a retired Navy Commander, our magnet board in the kitchen has two categories...On Deck....and In the Hole.
So much fun.
Magnetic letters work pretty good as well.
Take care
Michael
Write what you want kids. There is NO doubt in this man's mind that, "Mommy Rules!"
NO doubt. ;0)
We have a white board in the bathroom that's a lot like that. The kids are younger so the messages are more drawings now, but it's fun!
To get back at your kids, write: "Taylor & Courtney are friends" then when they've seen it & approve of it, erase the 'r' in friends. Chances are they won't notice for days. You can have the last bwa ha ha.
I've spent the last few minutes catching up... and yay! You shared the worst faux pas! I had to suppress my giggles lest my coworkers think I'm doing something other than working...
Your daughter has quite the articulated imagination! I loved the story...
I think my parents got their whiteboard up after our irreverency peaked. It's all boring with phone numbers and grocery lists. The whiteboard in my apartment, however, gets pretty interesting depending on who's been there and how much alcohol has been consumed...
Glad you had a good holiday.
I get no respect from these people! It's cuz you don't love Hitler.
Aren't kids nuts sometimes? You wonder where their minds went.
All that fun from a chalkboard? Who knew?
Damn Karma...
Cube: I like that idea!
If mom reeks, then I'm sure they don't want her preparing their dinner or washing their laundry. Wouldn't want the aroma to permeate everything else, now would we... ;)
I dig the idea. I may have to steal it. :) Sorry you reek. ;)
Lois Lane
I've always been sorta bad about that sort of thing. There's an A&W in my hometown that offered deli sandwiches, and for awhile (courtesy of myself and an employee who would re-fix it every time someone else fixed it) it offered a "turrkey beast" sammich. And I think my crowning glory was the Crossroads Market in Wapato WA which offered "50 LB BAG DOG POO $5.99"... had to stand on the bar of my 10-speed to wangle that one.
My wife and I have a whiteboard on the fridge, and I modify the messages she leaves for me. Amazing the derivations you can come up with for instructions to clean the catbox or empty the dishwasher. The cat and the dishes would definitely look at us with suspicion if they knew...
Your kids have a sense of humor! You'll find a way to get even!
You should have left the Hitler stuff up there just to see the reaction, LOL. I would have...but then that's probably why I'm single. LOL
That sounds like SO MUCH FUN. I wanna play.
Put down for me: "Benito rocks!"
I wanna see how long it takes the kids to figure out this is Mussolini.
LOL, that sounds like my house. I'm just chopped liver most of the time. :)
still cracking up about your "tight end" comment on Dougie's blog!!!
Fun! Have you tried deodorant?
I moved in with my mom and stepdad for a while when I was in my mid twenties. They had a chalkboard in the kitchen and I had the "bad" idea of writing big words from the dictionary and their meanings. I might as well have crapped on their floor. How dare I? What was the hidden purpose? Blah, blah, blah. I got a big laugh at their paranoia and I got to learn some new words which I still remember. The chalkboard is still there today, but my kids leave pictures and messages and my mom and sd just love it.
JD I'm thinking this is better than when I was going thru chem-0 and had no hair. My family used my head and a black marker for the message board.
writing on blackboards with white skreeching chalk, a shuddering experience a few of us still remember....now days mrs.quincy etches notes on the refrigerator door with an electric knife......
One house we lived in had these beautiful white walls and my then 16 year old daughter drew a tiny picture of a horse and a bird on the wall with pencil. When we went back there one time to pick up something we forgot the woman in the house said she left the picture there when she painted.
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