The question of the year, “Are ya’ll having more kids?”
The top question lately, “Are y’all done having kids after this?” Welllll with babies and kids come a lot of responsibility. I can not imagine raising kids as a single parent. 💙 Props to all the single parents out there!! I love my kids, but there are some days when I don’t feel like fixing dinner, cleaning a poopoo accident, changing a diaper, waking up in the middle of the night to feed the screaming baby, running to the bathroom as fast as you can all the way across the ball park so that you don’t have an accident to clean. You know those messy things in life that parents have to do but don’t always want to.
Kardaryl and I have come up with a system that takes out all of the arguing! It takes away, “But I changed the diaper last time, I always run them to the bathroom, I was up all last night with the baby, I don’t feel like cooking tonight, blah blah blah (whatever other excuses you can come up with). In order to use this system you have to be willing to loose sometimes, and you HAVE to follow through and hold up your end.
▪️ When there is something that me or Kardaryl don’t want to do, we play Rock Paper Scissors….. The person that looses automatically has to go do the dreaded task without any complaining. It takes away all the arguing because it’s such a fair game. If you have spent time around us, you have probably seen us play Rock Paper Scissors. We have played it at the ball park, at church, at family get togethers, in the car (to figure out what type of music we are listening to). It’s such a quick easy solution, but remember you have to be willing to loose. If you’re too prideful & think you’re above helping your spouse with these tasks this won’t work, but if you want a happy non argumentative solution, this is it!
▪️We also make lots of deals/bets… Kardaryl likes a competition so we will bet household chores. One deal we made that I will never forget. One Saturday morning, We were in Prairieville at the boys football game which Kardaryl was coaching and Kardaryl realized he left his LSU football tickets at home a hour away!!! He planned on leaving straight from the boys game to go to LSU (& going back home was the complete opposite way). So I made a deal with him that I would drive back home to get the tickets, if he folded all the clothes in the house by SUNDAY night (I’m horrrrribleeeee at folding clothes & we had a huge mountain piled up on the couch of clothes). After weighing his options, he agreed 😂 so we both won bc he got his tickets and I got the clothes done.
Sooo to answer everyone’s question about more kids. The way Kardaryl and I work is a team effort. If anyone asks him, Kardaryl wants a basketball team…. I’m not the only one doing everything with the kids and house, so as long as we can continue to solve things with Rock Paper Scissors, we plan to have more kids.
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