I've heard it said in the good book many times before that there is "joy in your posterity", but after today i'm starting to wonder... Now, before you stop reading on account of blasphemy let me explain. Trish & Tyler went out of town for the weekend and I being the loving christian, best sister in the world, awesome, unique, talented (etc. etc. etc.) individual that i am, agreed to watch Will & Kate.
- 7:30 am I arrive at grandma's to two beautiful kids who were overly excited to see me. I should have taken that as my first clue. Looking back they must have been saying to themselves, "She has no idea what she is getting into." (okay, okay so they are two and four but they might have!)
- 8:00 We decide to make pancakes, but William still wants a bowl of cheerios. An honest request.
- 8:03 An egg is broke on the kitchen floor when i turned my back. I still don't know how that happened.
- 8:04 I see the opportunity to teach about what is inside of eggs so we all gather round and discuss the different parts and colors of the eggs.
- 8:05 Clean up the egg
- 8:06 Pancakes are on!
- 8:07 I turn to flip a pancake on the stove and Will is on the counter with one egg smashed on the counter and the other mixed in with his cereal. Nothing like broken shell, yoke, white, and milk Cheerios for breakfast! A slight satisfaction in the idea of "Gee, he must have really liked my egg lesson!"
- 8:08 I clean up the eggs.
- 8:15 Kate starts crying because something is on her blanket. With a furrowed brow I walk around the bar in the kitchen only to see yet another egg smashed on the floor, slightly wiped up with Kate's blanket.
- 8:15 I take a deep breath.
- 8:15 I turn to Will and explain, "William, you made this mess and you need to help me clean it up! Here is your rag!
- 8:16 Will "helps" clean up by spreading the egg all over the floor.
- 8:17 another breath.
- 10:00 I finally get dressed. Mom got me a new white shirt, long sleeve, very cute. I put it on. I look great. (A fatal rookie mistake, what was i thinking?!)
- 12:30 The kids are being great, they have earned lunch at, "old Mc Donalds"! Whoo hoo! Two happymeals please!
- 12:41 The food is here and both kids are downing the fries. I'm pretty sure Will thought this was His last meal at the rate he was eating his fries and ketchup. I'm serious his whole fist somehow managed to get into that tiny sacrament cup full of ketchup.
- 12:42 I let my guard down.... They are eating, whats to fear?
- 12:42.37 Will finishes yet another fry, and with a fear that all the fries are going to walk away swings his arm around to grab another one and in his haste swipes the ketchup cup onto my new shirt, down my khaki's (another rookie wardrobe mistake) and onto my crocs. With a lack of a better option i just sat their as the ketchup dripped through the holes in my crocs (now that was not so bad if you compare it to what was dripping through my crocs when i worked at the nursing home).
- 12:45 Mitch arrives, takes a look at me at laughs (good sympathy as always)
- 12:55 I come out of the bathroom with a soaking wet shirt (slightly transparent) only to see Wills slightly tipped head with a big smile on it. All is forgotten. He's cute again.
- 2:30 We are at Grandma Sherrils and Kate falls off the swing only to have it come back and hit her in the head. A slight melt down, but with a quick thinking bribe from me she immediately stops.
- 3:30 We are back at grandma Lifferths and i walk over to look out the door and Kate is rubbing her face back and forth and back and forth along Daisy's (the dog) back. I ask her why she is doing that, "oh, he just smells so good". For all those not familiar to daisy, she does not smell good! After asking if she is sure, she takes one final big sniff of the Dog and replies, "yeah, he does not smell very good". and walks away.
- 5:00 that brings me to where I'm at now. and in the process of typing this, Will woke up screaming and we changed his diarrhead, slightly rashed bum, and he cuddles up on me and falls back to sleep. All is forgotten....Joy in your posterity eh... i could see that.... just not anytime soon!
