Entry FeedWe were doing so well this week. I actually had the boys to school really early, and was considering starting to walk them in the morning if they kept getting up this early (we are almost 2 km from school, so a bit of a hike for them. We walk home on nice days, but the mornings are a little busy.)
Then this morning...
Those boys of mine are sneaky! Today they woke up and went into my bedroom, keeping the lights off, and turned on cartoons. I thought that they were still sleeping, so I let them be. Then I went up to check - surprise, surprise!
I had twenty minutes to get three of them dressed, fed, and out the door. No problem.
Except we have this weird thing in our house. Daddy eats cereal as a late night snack, and has gotten the boys into the habit. Unfortunately, they don't put their cereal bowls into the dishwasher. I am not sure exactly what happens, but I think that Merlin, our cat, licks the bowls clean. This actually causes some milk spray, which dries and adheres the bowls to the table.
In the morning, it is a bit of fun trying to un-stick the bowls. You have to exert just the right amount of pressure. Some times it actually takes quite a bit of force, like Daddy strength; other times the kids can handle it.
Son One tried first, and couldn't get the bowl closest to him un-stuck. So I grabbed and did it, "Now eat!" I barked. We should have been in the van two minutes ago.
Son Two must have been eating his spinach. He grabbed the second bowl (maybe it wasn't stuck at all - he just expected it to be) and flung it over his head, about six feet into the air. It crashed behind him on the floor. He looked like he was about to cry.
Great. Now I have a shattered bowl to clean up and we should have been in the van three minutes ago!
I cleaned up the mess and got the boys to school on time. Luckily, traffic was light.