Things that can be in a boys pocket

This is what keeps me going despite the below rant. My kids are so funny to me. So we are sitting here watching TV and I am wandering how I am going to make it through the night and Mason begins changing into his PJs on the couch, he stands up and says, lets see what is in my pocket, (now remember we had just gotten back from Walmart) He starts to pull things out of his pockets. This is the list.

1. bandanna
2.hole puncher
3. pen
4. bad guy
5. rock
6. dental floss
7. post it notes
8. last but not least, an entire vest for his rainbow club.

I rolled over laughing as he pulled the vest out of his pocket! Why? wait let me ask.

Oh, just in case he needed it. See I told you there is always a good answer.

Grocery store

Well today at Walmart I payed for a Paula Dean cooking Magazine. Of course you know I didn't buy this or should I say I didn't pick it out, I payed for it but apparently Abigail is a fan of Paula Dean. Anyway I caught this one, AH HA! she took it off my bill. On the way out of the store I began to wander, "Do my kids not know that this is wrong?" So I briefed them once again on grocery store etiquette. You know I could have kept the Paula Dean magazine had I 10 pounds of butter! But alas, I just bought some store bought brownies to drown myself into tonight. Gary is gone for the next three days and there isn't even a hint of a referral on the horizon. I am waiting on the Lord and watching and rejoicing with others but that is all I can do. Abby has got a terrible cough, it is the kind that is next to uncontrollable. This kept me up from 11 to 4 this morning, not that hanging out with my daughter watching "Over the Hedge" was fun at 2 am but ..... sleep would have been nice too. Now I am wandering if I am going to be making another trip to the urgent care with all the kids in tow. Pray I don't.

Why?

This time I decide to ask "why?" I mean who knows maybe there is a good answer.

"Why is there toilet paper taped to my dining room chair Mason?"

"Oh that is a bad guy elevator booby trap."

See I told you there would be a reasonable explanation to this.

Smarty Pants

Woke up after a very long night of being up with sick Abigail, I am also limping because I broke my toe. Rubbing sleep from my eyes, Mason is already up and dragging a chair across the floor to the pantry where I keep the food "locked" ya right. I asked him to shhhhhhhh! Abby is sleeping and he was making a horrible racket. He made his sad face as I grabbed the chair from him. I asked him what he was doing and he, defeated mid task ,said "I am forging for food" (Okay don't feel too bad for the boy his dad had just made him a big bowl of oatmeal) I bet he was going to climb to the top of the pantry, unlock it and eat sugar. That's my guess.