Friday, April 15, 2011

You Can Find Me in the Corner of the Lovely Padded Room

I thought...

that I couldn't wait for the Easter Half-term holidays.

I envisioned the mornings I would be lying in my bed doing full body stretches sometime around, say 10 am, to be followed with lots of playing and picnicking.

I had a dream (Tangled reference)

of an overflowing bread box with no packed lunches being made.

BUT

Some idiot scheduled all of the boys for the first three days in a soccer school, so lunches were packed and bed stretching was postponed. With boys away, I was blessed with some insight of Miss Ky's future hoarding practices since she had more time to drag all things belonging to everybody downstairs.

The same idiot forgot the chant heard 'round the world during school breaks, "I'm bored! I'm bored! She's looking at me!" Fun times.

The biggest slap in the face?

Having Miss Ky home is different than having four boys home. 

This afternoon as I ran upstairs to brush my teeth (compulsive tooth brusher).
I hesitated to have a look at the brush-- thank the Manufacturer that I did!

My toothbrush is brown.

Not at the top,
no,  
someone rinsed it carefully after using it to do who-knows-what,
but down at the bottom of the bristles there's a new color that was not there this morning.

My gag reflex is in overdrive now.



Ten days and fifteen hours until that child returns to school, I think I'll start packing her lunches now...



If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe

 

10 comments:

  1. Ugh. Something brown...who knows what a 4-year old could have gotten into.

    When you get into your padded cell, look to your left - that'll be me.

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  2. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Brown!!!!!????? Ugh!! Yes I would be packing her lunches now for sure! Ha!
    Here it is quiet and no patter of little feet can be heard at all for they are all grown up now!! And have brown toothbrushes of their own. Ha!
    Bliss!!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  3. Oh yuk. I don't even want to think about that toothbrush.

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  4. Yeah, I can't think too much about the toothbrush either. Hang in there.

    And I was just lamenting that we went away for spring break, for the first time ever, and I didn't have those lovely mornings of stretching in bed. Thanks for the reality check. :)

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  5. LOL....let's just pretend she was polishing the floor with that toothbrush. mkay?

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  6. I'm in the cell on the other side of Ethel Mae Potter. We are going to have SOOO much fun when you get here!

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  7. Love that quote.

    My toothbrush is brown mostly because I shove chocolate in my mouth right before bed.

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  8. I'm freaked out for you~could be dried blood? Or poop. Which is worse? Hard to say. Anyway, my daughter just went back "on track" after a 3 week break here at home. I finally felt safe to remove the cotton from my ears. BUT...no brown toothbrush. I'll pray for you. :)

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  9. LOVE the uproar over the brown toothbrush :0) Awww--it'll just put a little hair on your chest and a spring in your step!

    I home school {crickets chirping}

    So yeah--here in my new house?

    I had them instal my own rubber room...

    You think I'm joking....

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  10. I love that quote! Totally cracked me up. The toothbrush thing made me gag a little too. I usually check my toothbrush before I use. I hate to feel I must, but well, I have kids therefore I must.

    Happy brushing! :-)
    -FringeGirl

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