From the bathroom stall where Timmy is taking care of business: “Come out, come out wherever you are!”
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Last night, Eric walked into the house and suddenly stopped, bent at the waist and examined the wall. “Um…who drew a smiley face on the wall?” Three chorused with “Not me, I didn’t.” And one younger daughter looked guiltily at her daddy with a half-grin on her face. (She had to clean the wall off.)
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Later, I glance at my feet in the girls’ room to see an orange X on the carpet. “Um, who did this?” Older daughter looks guiltily at me.
“Really? Ladies, when you were little itty bitty, we had this conversation. Perhaps you remember it? Where are you allowed to draw?”
“On paper.”
“Where?”
“On paper.”
“So not walls? How about carpets? What about on Timmy? No? Okay, then please keep the drawings off of my house and non-paper things. Okay?”
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Alex: In my folder, there is a permission slip for doing wrestling.
Me: Yes?
Alex: I’m not going to do wrestling.
Me: (grinning to myself) That’s fine.
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This morning, breakfast has been eaten. Timmy asked for a second bowl of Lucky Charms. I pour him one. When I come back, he is finishing said bowl and Megan is sitting in front of a foot-wide pile of Lucky Charms…which is mysteriously lacking marshmallows. I think she thought I wouldn’t notice.
