A few things I’d like the boys to share with me SOONER rather than LATER…
- Someone spilled a soda in the basement and tried to clean it up with toilet paper (it looked like it SNOWED).
- Will’s neck hurts because he and Evan were wrestling in the basement, NOT from “laying back on the couch too hard”.
- The dog ate Hershey kisses that someone dropped on the floor (see below).
- The dog vomited under the dining room table.
- One of them is the “student of the week” and needs family photos, touching note from parents, and a bag of no less than four items that represent their inner self…by tomorrow.
- Someone volunteered to provide enough rice to fill thirty tube-sock snowmen.
- The upstairs toilet is clogged….again.
- They ran out of body wash and shampoo…a week ago.
- Their lunch account is $20 in the red, and they’ve been eating subsidized cheese on white bread for four days.
It’s hard to convince them that I wouldn’t have been mad, if they’d told me right away. Sometimes it’s a matter of degrees, like, I might not be SCREAMING right now, if I’d been told earlier. I guess you take your chances…..
squirrel circus 
You would think in the Information Age the school would have an automatic notification to tell you when your kids’ lunch account is down to $5.00. An auto-refill option would be handy, too.
Not that a little governement surplus cheese would hurt ’em!
The notification system is a note the cashier hands to your child…which you NEVER see, of course.
Well, it doesn’t get much better as they age at least in my case. Today, as I was checking through the upstairs (we have the kids on a PT basis due to divorce) I noticed chocolate melted on the floor, a dead holiday like pine plant and yep you guessed it the old clogged toilet. I feel your pain.
I suspected as much (and shudder to think of the years ahead of me). As for the chocolate on the floor. Let’s just say that one time…..it wasn’t…chocolate. ‘Nuff said.
I know these moments suck when you’re in them, but I just laughed out loud at this one.
That’s okay. I have to admit that I was chuckling when I recalled a few….with the benefit of time since the incident, of course.