Things to do on a Sunday When It's Too Crappy to go Outside

Child's Perspective:

1. Fight with your siblings
2. Come downstairs every half hour with your best famished face and announce how hungry you are even though you've just eaten a meal. Beg for something different each time.
3. Bounce a tennis ball off the wall, teasing the dog who was playing with said tennis ball just moments before.
4. Run from one end of the house to the other for no reason at all.
5. Talk in a loud, obnoxious voice during TV programs that others are watching.
6. Play upstairs, but move furniture, throw things, and yell loudly so it sounds like the ceiling is going to cave in on your family members below.
7. Harass the dogs because it's fun to get bit.
8. Play the Playstation and then yell at the TV when the game doesn't go your way. You know you pushed X! It's the game's fault.
9. Leave the outside door open. What's a heat bill anyway?
10. Use all of your mom's computer paper for beautiful art projects.

Mom's Perspective:

1. Yell upstairs at the fighting siblings that if they can't get along they will go to their separate bedrooms.
2. Say "no" every half hour. They are not hungry. They just ate.
3. Say "Stop bouncing the tennis ball on the wall" three times before child stops and gives you a dirty look.
4. Yell at running child to stop running in the house. There should be a tape made with this rule, so a parent wouldn't have to waste time saying it over and over again.
5. Threaten loud mouthed children with duct tape if they can't be quiet during interesting TV programs.
6. Don a hard hat and install "Warning! Falling Debris!" signs all over the downstairs.
7. Put a bandaid on child's bitten hand, but offer no sympathy because if you've told him once, you've told him a hundred times to quit harassing the dog.
8. Get fed up with the fit throwing at the TV and unplug the game. Ignore crying child.
9. Shut the door for the tenth time today. Tell the children they are no longer allowed to use it.
10. Out of computer paper again. Make a mental note to hide the next package you buy.
11. Even though the weatherman is predicting the biggest storm of the season, pray that the children have school tomorrow.