Just didn't feel like going to the store.

...glasses of juice for himself and his mom. The place that was low enough for him to place the plastic cups was of course, the cushions on our new couch and the predictable thing happened to the cups, and when he saw it fall over, he dropped the whole bottle on the couch. Happily it was just apple juice.

This is why God created steam cleaners.

The couch is long gone, but my son's willingness to try to do things for himself and his family have not.

I think it's great to let children to try to do things.

Then there was the time my other son, also two at the time, tried to make coffee for his sleeping Mom to help her to get up to play with him...

Good on you for laughing. You're doing a great parenting job.

to eat for Mother's day.

I can't remember what it was supposed to be. Pancakes, maybe. I just remember choking some down and then asking her how much salt she had used. She didn't know. She hadn't realized the amounts mattered. It looked to her like her dad just threw things in, so she thought she could do it that way, too.



She is grown up now, and a great cook. I didn't ruin the fun for her somehow.

P.S. About the dishwasher. I was happy to hear about the wrong soap because that meant the dishwasher wasn't broken. The soap suds all over the floor could be wiped up. But I've run it through 6 cycles of "rinse and hold" and I'm still not done!

of an apartment complex she owned without telling him to shut the gas off first. When I got there, the basement reeked for gas and I could hear the gas hissing from the disconnected piping.

I always thought I'd never live to see the age of 65 because I would be killed by a homeowner doing something silly, such as those who think they can do their own electrical wiring, but the body gave out and being on SSDI and not working anymore, I ought to hit that age and then some.