To all ants: “Move along, nothing to see here!”
This morning I wondered where all the girls were all of a sudden. I could hear them giggling in the kitchen. I went in to see a large cookie sheet on the floor, and the girls each had a spoon in hand. There was about 1/2 of a bag of powdered sugar on the cookie sheet and surrounding floor (not to mention girls). In addition, pieces of bread were torn up and mixed into the powdered sugar. It was a horrible mess…and of course the blood pressure started to raise a bit. :) But I took a deep breath and tried to smile as I asked, “What are you doing?”
“Making cookies!!” they shouted, beaming faces covered in sticky white powder. My heart softened and I remembered that they’re only going to be kids once. :) Might as well be a good time. :)
But did I mention they were sans clothing?
Any time we get a bit of dirt or water on us, the clothes must come off! (Thank goodness we grow out of that eventually.) So I walked a little closer to start trying to clean up, and my socks got soaked instantly.
“What’s so wet on the floor?”
“She peed!” They pointed at the culprit…the one who had taken off her diaper. (Like she does every 5 minutes.)
OKAY. Time to clean up. So I told them they made lovely cookies, but it was time to wash ourselves off, and asked them to get up and walk to the bathroom. One little girl got up, started to walk with powdery feet across the floor, hit the pee puddle, and fell right back down in it. She laughed hard and said, “Oooo, slippery pee!”
By then we’re all laughing, and as dad tries to clean the girls, mom tries to clean the floor. I’ve mopped it not once, not twice, but THRICE now. Who knew that powdered sugar mixed with bread, pee, and Mr. Clean would make such an incredibly sticky film? So I’m off to mop again.
After I mop the dining room, that is…I give another child prune juice daily, and all moms can I’m sure understand exactly why :), and she spilled it while I was mopping the kitchen for the second time. So now we have sticky brown floor in here that I’ve tried to get up twice now.
I’m just praying the ants don’t find us.
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