How Do They Come Up With This Stuff?

I simply will never understand how the young male mind works. (This is not the time to discuss older male minds)

The older four boys were all outside playing, while Hewitt played inside. Hewitt tried to go outside. I assumed he was going to play with the other boys. Nope, “Me just going pee.”

Side note: Yes, my boys do go to the bathroom outside. Afterall, we live on a farm so there is lots of peeing going on outside. We also only have 2 bathrooms, so many times it is simply easier to make use of the great outdoors.

A few minutes later Hewitt came back in and said, “Me make pea soup.”

“You did what?”

“Me make pea soup.”

Now reading the blog it is probably easier to make the connection that he was making “pee soup” and not “pea soup”.

After much good detective work on my part (I’d make a great investigative reporter some day), it turns out that the boys have all been peeing in the old ash barrel. We heat the house with a woodburning fireplace, so everyday Colter empties out the ashes and puts them in an ash barrel to later be dumped on the gardens. Dad recently brought home a new one, so the old ash barrel was put to rest (or so I thought).

Apparently I thought incorrectly because the old ash barrel has become a soup pot for ashes and pee! I know in the “old days” people would make lye for soap by running water through ashes. I wonder what running pee through ashes produces?

I have yet to get an answer for what the boys were intending to do with their “pee soup”. And truthfully, I really don’t want to know. What I do know is that this is a Daddy (and not a Mommy job). When Daddy comes home, I will simply ask him to help the boys make their “pee soup” disappear. Because unfortunately they have been doing this for quite a while, and it has gotten rather heavy.

I shudder to think what they’ll come up with next!

PJ

 

 

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41 thoughts on “How Do They Come Up With This Stuff?”

  1. Hey Mrs. Jonas,
    This is Rebekah Maggard, one of the girls that cleaned your house, How are you?
    I wanted you to know that I was very impressed with your family and would like to have you all over for dinner sometime soon.
    In Christ,
    Rebekah Maggard
    equestrian4jc@gmail.com

    • Rebekah – I just saw this and can’t believe you posted it six years ago! I would have loved to have had dinner with you. Hope you’re doing well and all settled in. 🙂 PJ

  2. We taught our son to pee outside this summer to avoid running through the whole house with wet swim suits…. I’ve caught him several times trying to pee outside on his own…. did I mention we live in the city, and he JUST turned 2? OOPS!

    • Oh – the girls can do embarrassing things when they think they can pee standing up like their Dad does. LOL PJ

  6. that is a new one for me. It is just hilarious. We used to make mud pies when I was young, but this is the first time hearin something like this. lol

  7. I commented on your post titled November Soap Contest.
    And this is hilarious by the way! Did you ever find out the intentions of the “pee soup” the boys were making?

  14. O the joys of boys and their peeing habits. We have a storm shelter and live in the middle of 20 acres of wooded land. Out of all the areas where he could pee, my son decided that the absolute best place, was to remove the u fitting over the vent to the storm shelter and pee down that “drain”. As I’m a single mom, it was my job to help him clean up the mess. We spent an entire day with the pressure washer and scrubs brushes. And a week later, we repainted it with kilz again just to make sure…

    • Oh I am so sorry, but that is hysterical and really made me laugh. Children will come up with the WORST ideas all the time. LOL
      PJ

  15. Oh, I’m so glad we have 4 girls! Yes, there’s drama at our house, but no gross pee stories. God’s grace be on you PJ as you raise your 8 beautiful children :o)

  16. PJ, we raised 3 boys-no girls and I am never amazed at what they can come up with because it can be anything. I have always said that with all boys-nothing is beyond them. At least you have some girls to temper them a little. 🙂

    • I’d like to think that the girls temper them. But unfortunately, I find that many times boys are worse because they “show off” more when girls are around – even if it is just their sisters. LOL PJ

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