Tuesdays

Tuesday is my cleaning day. We host Life Group on Tuesdays, mostly because if I don't host, I don't clean.

Tuesday is also the day that all h&%$ breaks loose here. So this week wasn't any different....

It started when Mark didn't put the gate up. We've found that if we don't gate Nathan in his room for naptime, he will sneak out of his room, and get into trouble (like when he decided to play with daddy's razor). I used to feel guilty about the gate, but I don't have to yell about staying in his room and he isn't dangering himself anymore.

Anyway....he didn't nap. So, of course, he went in his sister's room and woke her up. I told him to go back to his room, and tried to let her cry for a little bit, praying that she would go back to sleep. She screamed for a little while, then went immediately silent. I thought, wow, maybe I dodged that. A few minutes later, Nathan asked if he could come downstairs, so I let him, and he had a tootsie-pop that we had gotten at the pharmacy earlier. Hm...I thought, I thought I had left those in the van. I asked what Becca was doing, and Nathan said sleeping.

So a little later I went to check on her, she was facing away from me, I thought she was asleep, but she heard me, and turned to face me, and sure enough....she had a tootsie pop too. So not only did I have 2 very tired kids, but I had 2 very sticky kids with absolutely no time to bathe them.

At least he shared with her.