They use leather down in Texas

Two weeks ago Tod and I laid on our couch for almost two days straight watching this.  In between sessions (and right after Elaine Dalton proved me wrong that not all female conference speakers are annoying)(read this) the worst movie came on TV.  Christmas With the Kranks.  And since we were already laying there, we stayed.  Sent the boys outside.  Watched the entire, two hour, waste of time movie.  But we were relaxing! the boys weren't fighting! in fact we hadn't heard a sound for half the movie...

About ten minutes later our doorbell rang.

It was our neighbors...the ones Lennon stalks.  Both parents.  Mad.  Lennon threw rocks over their fence.  Some landed in their pool.  Another "hit their little girl in the head."  This isn't the first time.  They might want the police involved.  

Photo taken in March...when the antics began.

Tod apologized, Lennon apologized and long story short, we were mad.  Took away all of Lennon's luxuries for the day -- no TV, no backyard, no computer, no phones, no toys, no playroom, no superhero costumes.  This was at 1 pm.  By 6, I wanted to die.  The kid had nothing to do.  But we showed him!  DON'T MESS WITH US!  WE MEAN BUSINESS, KID!
(Two weeks later)

Doorbell rang yesterday.  Same neighbor.  Rocks again.  This time, an Easter basket filled with rocks.  Over the fence.  Into the pool.  Vacuum is broken.  I am mad.  I am listening to this man while trying to think of a punishment that matches the crime without physically harming my four year old.  Then I hear the man say:

You know, you gotta nip this shit in the bud now, or he ain't stoppin with rocks in a pool.  Neighbor kid on the next street up got the cops comin after him daily...stompin flower beds, rocks at windows, lightin matches and firecrackers in the street...his mom don't do nothin about it neither.  And you can't just talk to yo kids...I grew up in Texas man!  We don't talk in Texas!  My mama had a leather belt down in Texas; you know what I'm talkin about!  Yo kids ain't listenin...you gotta teach them a lesson so they don't end up in a homosexual gang like my oldest daughter...

Lennon, if you're reading this, please stop throwing rocks.