Dont mind me, just venting

[3mnkids]

I posted a few days ago about not being able to find my cigarettes.. well, I never did find them and something was kinda funny about it. When I first got up I couldn't find my lighter so I called my husband to chew him out for not leaving me one and then miraculously a pack appeared on top of the fridge with a few cigs and a lighter..not the full pack but a pack I keep in my purse.  okay, I thought I was losing my mind.. Flash forward to this afternoon.

Im taking laundry out of the washer and what do i find? A thing of matches.. uh huh.. I don't use matches, my husband doesn't use matches so that leaves one of the children. The only pants in there were my oldest sons. I knew it! I knew when the cigs went missing that I wasn't crazy and my first thought was him. My youngest wouldn't take them and my daughter hates cig smoke and b***hes constantly about me smoking. He will be home in about 10 minutes and oh boy, its not going to be pretty around here.

oh, I also got a letter from the school that my daughter is in danger of failing because of.. wait for it.... PE and math. She has an F in PE! FFS! I knew about the F in math.. unfortunately none of my kids were born with the math gene. yep, going to be talking to that child as well. kids! im going to strangle them. ahhhh, I feel better getting it out. I don't really want to be so p**sed off when they walk through the door.

[Doggett]

...just don't kill him, 3mnkids....

[Jack]

Kind of reminds me of the time my wife and I were drinking some wine, and it tasted absolutely horrible.  Turns out the kids drank some and then filled the bottle back up to its previous level with water. 

[Flick James]

Ahh. Kids will be kids and parents have to discipline them. Fun times. My advice: be plenty firm, but try and get your frustrations about the situation completely out of the way before going in on them.

[jimmybob]

May I ask how old your kids are now?

-Jimmybob

[Ash]

I smoked my first cigarette when I was 16. (it was a Marlboro Red)
Immediately after, I went to the nearest gas station and the guy actually sold me a pack of Camel Light 100's.  (this same guy ended up selling me cigarettes for the next 2 years,,,he never carded me)

I managed to hide my tobacco use from my parents for just about a week before they found out about it.

That night, I was getting ready to go to summer camp and had packed a suitcase and a backpack.
Inside the backpack were various assorted things...  Sony Walkman, cassette tapes, (it was 1990) spare batteries, candy, etc...
Underneath all that I had hidden three packs of Camels.   

It was two days before I was scheduled to leave and my mother decided to have a look through my backpack when I wasn't looking to see what I was taking.

She found the smokes.   

Believe me, I got a thorough chewing out and the lessons of what smoking does to a person.
She destroyed all three packs and threw them in the trash.
That didn't stop me, though.  I went to the store again and bought three more packs the next day.

I snuck them into summer camp and got away with smoking about a pack and a half before me and several other people were busted by one of the camp counselors.
They took the smokes and destroyed them.

[3mnkids]

Doggett~ I didn't kill him      He swears up and down he isn't smoking, he had the matches to burn leaves.. yeah, like I believe that. However, I cant really prove it with just the matches.. I'm going to be watching him like a hawk and counting my cigarettes.. 

Jack~ I'm so glad we don't drink, I would be checking the bottles daily   

Flick~ I was calm. That is why I vented here first so I wouldn't just blow up at them. They tune me out when I rant so I had to be calm. I was plenty firm though   

Jimmybob~ The one in question is 13 and is the problem child   

Ash~ I stated smoking at 14 and really wish I hadn't.. It sucks being tied to the damn things and I refuse to let my kids start this habit.. I'm planning on quiting but right now I'm trying to break the habit of biting my nails. I'm doing good, its been almost two weeks. Once I can see the nail past my finger I'm going to stop smoking. One thing at a time. 

[Paquita]

I f'n hated PE.. that damn grade stood between me and straight As for so many years.  I don't know your daughter's reasons for failing PE, but man I hated it!