My oak kitchen table

As you can see from the pictures, Evan has carved his name into my lovely, sturdy, oak kitchen table. This must have happened last night as he sat over there very quietly working on his homework. I immediately put him in time out and had a LONG talk about this. As my dad said, "He didn't carve Ella's name?' Nope. Evan has written his name on the seats of my van as well...with a permanent marker....No more markers in the van, I say!

Sibs- I just saw this and I immediately called dad and said something like this,(before I eve said hello) "Dad, I'm so so so so so so so so so sorry for carving Thad's name into everything as a child!" Dad laughed as I told him about Evan doing this and said he remembers all of us kids doing this. He told me to only buy used things from now on until the kids get older. He said he can remember throwing things away that we kids had ruined...UGH...Karma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What goes around comes around, eh????