I'm Impossible!!!

Not really, but this is what Rachel says ALL the time.  It is kinda like a mantra for her at times!  The kids might suggest I am annoying from time to time. I get too many eye rolls to count anymore.  Personally, I think I am just "spirited" or maybe even stubborn (if we need to be negative).  It is merely the price I pay for always being right!  (I think I even kept a straight face while I typed that!!!!)



Rachel used to say that I have written a book.  Every time I point out something she has never seen or heard about, she asks me which chapter of my book it is in, or even which page.  At first I was confused, but once she explained that it was in my "Great Big Book of Everything" book, because I have an answer for everything and at least pretend to know about everything.  I cannot help it.  I am a man!  I at least pretend to know a little about most things.

However, the problem is not just me.  I live in a house full of people that are always right.  It is what causes most fights -- parent v. parent, kid v. kid, or parent(s) v. kid.  Mom is probably best about making the first concession, but only because she knows that it will end the fight the fastest.  The rest of us dig in our heels.  The kids even manage to sustain their fights throughout the entire day/weekend/week and are amazing the way they can get under one another's skin.  I might have passed along that trait genetically, but you won't hear me openly admit to it!

We have friends, you know who you are, that have what I consider more normal households.  They don't get loud.  They talk through things.  They don't alarm their neighbors because of the shouting over who gets the last scoop of ice cream!  (okay, maybe they do this last one, but that's just because it is ice cream!)  But I would rather have loud, outspoken children than quiet ones who just accept everything they are told.  I like to think that if someone ever has the gall to kidnap either of them, they would gladly return them before the day is over because they wouldn't be able to stand the volume for prolonged periods of time!!   

It would probably do us all good to learn to compromise better.  Learn to listen to the other person and not just entrench ourselves and wait for the battle to begin.  Oh, and the other genetic part we need to keep in mind is that both Ben and I get a little cranky when we are hungry.  That Snickers commercial about the hungry friend becoming a diva when they are hungry resonates really strongly with the males in this house!

What is it about stubborn people?  Why am I always so impossible?  How is it that Anna and Ben have taken up this helm and wear it with pride even when I am not so proud of it?!  I guess it is just difficult to be right all the time.  And each of us knows it!

Keep in mind these are just random thoughts, not judging or trying to say anything about any other family we know.  Just pointing out characteristics about them to demonstrate how different my family is. PLEASE no one get offended!  This post was written with a huge slice of sarcasm.  No one in my family is actually right any more often than any other human being.  We just have the inability to admit when we are wrong.  Fill a house with that, and things get interesting!!!