Auntie Hell

My oldest son (now 29) was the worst about "telegraphing" his intentions. He would be looking and studying something, and I KNEW what he was fixing to do, and I would say "Jared - do NOT throw that cat off the roof" (or whatever he wasgoing to do). He would sigh and say "How did you KNOW?" and I would keep a completely straight face and say "Because I'm psychic". Years, and years of this. One day when he was oh, about 11 or 12 - I did it. (Jared - don't spray paint the side of the garage). Sigh - How did you know? - "Because I'm psychic!" - He looks at me and goes - "You really ARE psychic, aren't you?" - LOL!

Wow! Real moment of parental power here as I said emphatically - "Yes, I am!"

All I can say is you would fit right in with my family. My older brothers have always messed with my son like that!

I used to tell my kids and my nieces that if they didn't go to bed when I wanted them to that their eyebrows would wiggle off and crawl away to go find someplace to sleep because they're tired after a long day of holding your eye lids open blink after blink. They believed me.

::lips sealed::

Hey, go a little easier on yourself! The key thing to me would be -- did your mom, the example of what happens with cooties, find it funny? If she did, and you gave her a laugh amid her chemo, that's great. The five-year-old will forget it or deal with it; she'll be fine. And her mom is fine with it too. Really, your niece won't be scarred for life. I'd be more worried about the idea of a five-year-old being that boy-crazy and using terms like "hot," which even my 10-year-old doesn't use!....

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Haha, it's ok. She might remember it for a while though. When I was a kid, my uncle told me that chewing gum causes cancer (yes, I was chewing gum at the time). I almost didn't believe him, but he insisted. So I swallowed it. Then he said that swallowing gum is worse because it goes down into your belly and makes it expand until you explode. I ran bawling to my mom, and didn't chew gum for a looooong time. Come to think of it, I don't really chew gum that much now, 25 years later. I know now that he was just joking, but I don't think your was as bad. :)

I was at my best friend's house to exchange Christmas gifts for our kids. My friend has 3 girls, the youngest of which is 7. We were going to eat dinner first and then exchange gifts afterwards. The 7 year old was pouting a little and said she wanted to open the gifts NOW. So I said - oh, no reason to get so excited, we didn't get you a gift anyway. So we all laughed and thought she got that I was joking until she disappeared for a few minutes and came back crying. She thought I was serious. I could have died. My husband and I have always teased our daughter, but she has a sense of when we're kidding - always has. This little one just didn't have that and we felt so bad that we made her cry. Later I pulled her aside and told her not to tell her sisters that she was my favorite. That helped a little.

Of course! Relax. You are not going to auntie hell. LOL
You will both look back on this years from now and laugh your fool heads off. :)

I told my son I had eyes in the back of my head. I had paintings on the wall that had glass(reflection) and when he stuck his tongue at me when I turned my back I saw him do it! I said "son, I'm going to rip that tongue out of your head and beat you with it if you stick it out at me again"! The look on his face! Priceless!!!!

I really think that's what aunties are for! It's not quite as okay (in my own, personal opinion) for moms and dads to make stuff up to keep kids from doing things - they'll figure it out and possibly lose trust - but aunts and uncles? That's half the fun! Ya'll are allowed to! They don't have to have 100% complete trust in you becuase you're not 100% soley responsible for their well-being. It's okay if they're never quite sure if you're serious or not - that's what makes an auntie an auntie they love!