Before:
Love, sweet love.
After:
Fighting, kicking and fighting.
Just another typical day in Kerekes Casa. Sure, I could intervene and separate them, but I had to get pictures first, obviously.
Did you fight with your siblings? Do you still fight now?
Motherhood and Martial Arts 
I always fought with my brothers as a kid. These days our old bones break to easy for that kind of roughhousing – these days we just steal each other’s fries when we have lunch …
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I’m glad the stealing of fries doesn’t lead you to breaking of bones. I mean, unless they’re really good fries, then I could understand.
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Fought with my sister a bit when we were younger. We don’t fight now, but we don’t have a particularly close relationship either. We are 7 years apart, and I think that’s part of the issue. Though I read something recently that sibling rivalry/friction is a parental issue not a sibling issue. Not sure where I stand on that
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These two youngest are seven years apart. They get along great until he decides it’s time to wrestle. It’s a shame he doesn’t have a brother to do this with, as his sister is often not too interested. That seems to be the issue.
He tries to wrestle with me at times, and I’m not too interested either. There’s a little boy down the street, only a year older than mine, so I jokingly asked his mom if she could rent him out. Her son has two brothers. He’s got the wrestling covered. I don’t know if that makes this mom fortunate to have three boys, or unfortunate. 🙂
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Three boys? Definitely unfortunate. Every mother needs at least one daughter.
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I’ve tried telling her… I could lend one of mine, I suppose, in exchange for her youngest boy. 🙂
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😂😂
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No, I didn’t fight with my brother. Unless you consider roundhouse kicks, slapping, face-punching, and attempts at replicating “The Crane” move from The Karate Kid to be forms of fighting.
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Nah. You guys were good.
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Delightful photo story. Easy to follow the plot, even if the twist was predictable. No siblings for me, so I consider sibling rivalry to be a spectator sport.
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Did you get popcorn?
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Lol. I did, but don’t anymore. Funny how life works like that. I’m sure glad you didn’t intervene until after the photos!
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Haha. Of COURSE I got the pics first. I took the ones of them reading together because they were so cute. And then when they started fighting, I thought, yep, that’s funny. Gotta get pics of that too. You’re welcome. 😉
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Did we? Yes. No holds barred.
Do we? No, I avoid it like the plague. No more energy for drama. If it was a throw down like when we were kids I’d be all for it.
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Haha! Oh, CM. I have a hard time picturing that!
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Hahaha…..oh it happened. FIVE brothers, three sisters. It definitely happened 😉
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I’m retrospectively shuddering for the sake of your dear mother.
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Hahahahahaha! She would love that!!!
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🙂
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Who says childhood was just an idyllic time in our lives? 🙂
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Haha! Not me!
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Aren’t kids cute????
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Some of the time…
🙂
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Truer words…
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OMG! As the oldest (and of course we grew up with WWF wrestling every Sunday after church) with three brothers, they wrestled plenty. And as the de facto babysitter (until my brother broke his wrist trying to slam dunk a basketball from the top of a milk crate on an icy driveway), I tried (and failed) to settle them down. I learned. Eventually. At least I could blame it all on them 😀
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Haha! That sounds like too much responsibility–three younger brothers? You can’t be blamed for that one. It’s probably WWF’s fault. 🙂
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All Kodak moments!
Hilarious!
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My husband was disappointed by those After photos because I hadn’t gotten my phone in time to get a pic of them wrestling on the chair itself. Apparently that was even better and I missed it.
Ah well.
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It’s all about timing & opportunity, isn’t it? I guess it would have been too much to ask the kiddies for a replay?
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Haha. Probably. Didn’t even occur to me. Maybe if it had I would’ve though. 😛
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Oh this is good – I have so many memories of my kids being sweet as anything with each other then going to battle soon after. My favorite is when one was sent up for a time-out and the other was lonely while he was gone, kept asking where he was and when he was coming back!
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Awh. Surprised he didn’t just go take the time out with him, but I guess that would defeat the purpose of the punishment. So sweet!
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We have a classic memory of one brother knocking over a chocolate milk over dinner and saying he was only trying to punch his brother and the milk got in the way 😉 But they’ve always been a band of brothers despite the squabbles.
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Haha! Oh dear. The poor collateral chocolate milk (and the mess to clean up). Glad the boys are tightly knit otherwise. 🙂
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I used to be so bitter about cleaning up spilled chocolate milk because it always happened just as I got dinner on the table durin a lot of chaos and oh what a bear to clean up – it goes everywhere!
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I can totally imagine! In fact, I was imagining it when I read that. Aaaach!
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They don’t spill anymore 😉
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Thank goodness for that!
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Haha – definitely 🙂
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Well, she breathed on him. It had to be done 😀 My sister kept hitting me in the head with the hairbrush when I wouldn’t hold still for her to brush it. The thing is, I remember intently holding my head still, and then, WHAM, out of nowhere comes a whack from the hairbrush for no reason.
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Ow! That doesn’t sound like a worthwhile experience for you at all. I’d be like, “I’ll just brush my hair myself, thank you very much.”
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I was four, so brushing my own hair might have had interesting results 😀
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True. Might have wound up being just as painful. Still, what gives, sis, what gives? Do you give her a hard time for that to this day?
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I reminded her today…
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Haha! Did she remember? Did she apologize?
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She regrets it, but I don’t really care. It’s just fun to tease her.
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Teasing her is how you get your revenge. Aaaalllll worth it now. 😉
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Hi Betsy, Angelic plus not so angelic. I had a philosophy (some of the time) when my girls were young. If they were not drawing blood, I would let them work it out themselves.🙂
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That’s generally my philosophy too. But when Joe starts screaming, I make them separate from one another because the noise annoys me. Sometimes he’s screaming because she’s trying to hug and kiss him.
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😀❤️
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I fought with my brother but he was 2 years older! I always got in trouble for tattling on him…lol
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My sister and I were great friends until maybe middle school. Then we fought a lot, and it was awful. I’m guessing hormones were to blame.
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no not anymore we fight, we get very less time to see each other so not much time left to fight, just spending quality time
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Quality time is far better. Glad to hear it. 🙂
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M glad too
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