{"id":12999,"date":"2014-04-01T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momservations.com\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2014-04-01T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T18:33:49","slug":"one-heck-of-a-dorm-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/01\/one-heck-of-a-dorm-room\/","title":{"rendered":"One Heck of a Dorm Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Momservation: <\/b>One person\u2019s great idea is another person\u2019s mess to clean up.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know where my kids are going to end up for college, but it better have ginormous dorm rooms.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause where else are they going to fit a zip line?<\/p>\n

Let me explain.<\/p>\n

My son and daughter, 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> graders, are constantly coming up with \u201cgreat ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should get a bunny!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe so need a zip line!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what would be great? Our own Hawaiian shaved ice machine!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe totally need a hot tub\u2014the kind with all the fiber optic lights and built in stereo!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should get another dog! So Darby has someone to play with\u2014and a kitty too!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMom! We have to build a trampoline course in the back yard!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what we need? A 108 inch flat screen TV!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMom! You know what would be epic? One of those soda machine in our kitchen that dispenses like 150 different flavors!\u201d<\/p>\n

The kids pepper these great ideas out at me all the time announcing it like they have just discovered the cure for male pattern baldness.<\/p>\n

They expect to hear \u201cno\u201d so throwing out their brilliant ideas is more done for sport. Like a cat that brings a mouse into the house, plays with it until it gets bored, then walks away from the mouse leaving it exhausted and traumatized.<\/p>\n

Or in my case finally yelling, \u201cDon\u2019t you have some homework to do or a room to clean?\u201d<\/p>\n

My fourteen year-old son, Logan, throws out outlandish ideas like he suffers from Tourette\u2019s\u2014he can\u2019t help it as a live in the moment guy with an unquenchable thirst for his next fun adventure. Whitney, my stubborn thirteen year-old with a flair for debate, was born with an inability to take \u201cno\u201d for an answer.<\/p>\n

With Logan constantly shot-gunning me with ideas and Whitney never letting it drop, I got tired of hearing myself say no and getting batted around.<\/p>\n

So I started saying \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure! That\u2019s a great idea!\u201d I said to the rabbit.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally?\u201d they said wide-eyed at their good fortune the first time I changed my answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou bet! As soon as you turn 18 and have moved out of the house, you can have your very own bunny. You can keep it in your dorm room!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVery funny, Mom,\u201d my crestfallen idea hatchers pouted. There was no more playful cajoling or exhausting debating. Point was made.<\/p>\n

When Logan threw out the Hawaiian shaved ice machine idea, I didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat idea! You can have it in your dorm room and sell shaved ice to pay for your iTunes downloads!\u201d<\/p>\n

One hundred eight inch flat screen? \u201cYou can use the money from your shaved ice sales to buy the flat screen! It\u2019ll look great in your dorm room!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hot tub with all the bells and whistles? \u201cIf you can fit it in your dorm room, that sounds great!\u201d<\/p>\n

Another dog for Darby plus a cat? \u201cDarby will have so much fun visiting them in your dorm room. But don\u2019t get caught\u2014I\u2019m not paying for an apartment if you get kicked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA soda machine? That\u2019s going to make you really popular in the dorms. Are you going to have space in your dorm room with the hot tub?\u201d<\/p>\n

These days the mouse is back in charge of the game. My little kiddie-cats have reigned in the onslaught of great ideas and even check themselves:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know\u2026It\u2019ll be great in my dorm room,\u201d they\u2019ll chime before I can throw out the phrase that has become synonymous for \u201cNot on my dime, not on my time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interesting thought though\u2026You think Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u2019s mom told him building a multi-billion dollar social media empire would be a great idea for his dorm room?<\/p>\n

#EpicDormRooms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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