YES Day

Who is crazy enough to tell their kids YES for an entire day? We are.

Rewind back to Saturday. My kids were driving me F'ING crazy. I wish I was exaggerating, but unfortunately I'm not. My husband went out with his friends for opening fishing and I was home with the three gremlins. The day started out just fine and as soon as I pushed the wrong button, all hell broke loose and there was no turning back. The baby wouldn't stop whining; the two big girls wouldn't stop fighting! When my husband came home, I gladly sat on the couch and read my book and let him deal with the problems. Once he went crazy enough, we teamed up. The girls destroy our house daily - like a tornado - in a matter of seconds. It ACTUALLY took them 4 freaking hours to clean up two rooms. Almost their entire day was spent cleaning and fighting.

Bed time was fantastic. NOT. The amplified cries, hitting, and screaming was outrageous. It's like my kids were put on tired cranky steroids. How can three little beautiful babies turn into the next version of Chucky? UGH. After the final send off and running as fast as I could across all of the things that were not picked up in their room, I shut the door mid-sentence. I was done. Tapped out for the day. One more minute and I would have probably run away - only half kidding.

An actual picture of what I believe my child looked like

I barely could taste my wine, it went down faster than most days. Between my husband and I, we finished the first bottle in record time. We decided to sit in the hot tub and reflect on the atrocious day we just survived. WE WERE SURVIVORS afterall! We were pretty tuned up and decided that we yell at our kids a lot. We should lighten up and be more fun. Our 'YES Day' was born right then. We thought, just maybe, we would tell them yes for the whole day and see what would happen. Maybe it would backfire, but just maybe, it could be a good experience. We were unsure of using it on Mother's Day and all, but why not? What did we have to lose.

When I woke up on Sunday morning, I was showered with Caribou Coffee and bagels in bed. YUM right? After I joined the rest of the family, I saw my girls eating chocolate donuts and drinking smoothies. My husband told me they asked him and he couldn't say no, like actually couldn't say no. Then at 8:15AM, my wound up girls wanted a dance party with the music cranked. I enjoyed watching them from afar, that is until they came and asked me to dance too. Welp, I couldn't say no. My husband gladly reminded me of that. Here we were barely awake and pulling out our best Bruno Mars dance moves in the living room. I'm not entirely sure if my kids caught on right then to our plan, but they didn't hold back asking us to do things. Around 8:45, they said "Can we play spoons?" FML. "ABSOLUTELY".

I got drunk at my parents about 10AM. I lost count of how many mimosas I had, so the YES game was pretty easy from there on out. Luckily the kids were distracted most the day with all of their cousins. What I do remember, is that we laughed a lot throughout the day! It could have been the good buzz I kept going, but I'm thinking it was more the relaxed mood we all felt. That sounds like what a good mom should say at least. When bedtime came, my girls asked me to read them a book. It was a loooonnngg book and I typically hate reading these. I like the short 1 minute reads. This one was interesting, it was about an emperor and being naked. Envision yourself reading this book half in the bag - it was hilarious.

I never actually realized the small things that the kids get so excited to hear a 'yes' about. Reading books, drinking a juice, playing a game. We will definitely have more of these days in our future and are actually learning that something they ask can sometimes only take 10 minutes, but will make their entire day. I hope when they get older can remember back to these days and happy memories about their "YES Days" we would all have together! Could you survive a 'YES Day'?

XOXO

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