Rats!….Foiled again!

A good friend of ours shared his brilliant plan for getting easier penances when going to confession with us a few weeks ago, so I just had to try it out. He said that whenever he is going to confess losing his temper with the kids (he has 5 also), he sends them in first. He reasons, “If Father can see what I’m up against, he may go easy on me.” Made sense to me, so I sent them in.

#1 went in and came out with her head bowed and I thought, “So far, so good.” So I sent in child #2. I knew that I was in trouble when I began to hear peals of laughter from the priest. I have no idea what the child said, but it was obviously not the obnoxiousness I had been dealing with all week. He came skipping out and reported that “I didn’t even get in trouble!” (C’mon Father…would a little scowling be out of the question here? I mean…laughter…..honestly?”)

So, with a shake of my head and a big sigh I went in to face the priest. He was smiling and mopping his eyes and said, “I just love your kids.” Well, crud, that wasn’t the plan at all! Why is it that no one read the script but me?

The long and the short of it is that I got THE ENTIRE ROSARY. I’m usually a pretty decent person and have never gotten the entire thing before. …sigh…. SO, the moral of the story is, your children will never be obnoxious when you want them to, if your priest is one of 7 children himself then he will find your children amusing, and lastly, don’t try and play God…He’ll get you for it in the end.