1. Toothpaste and its ability to travel long distances.
Every single muther furking time I go into the kids' bathroom I find dried crusty toothpaste in the most odd places. Today, I found it on the windowsill, UNDER the blinds, that is approximately 5 ft from the sink and NO WHERE near the towel, which is also covered in a toothpaste/saliva combo.
2. Socks and where the Hell do they go?
I swear to all that is holy I have a basket of single socks that contains more socks than the actual pairs that end up in my kids drawers. Where do the socks go? Is there a black hole in my dryer that ONLY likes kids socks? Ironically, I rarely have an issue matching pairs of mine or HH's socks. So, this black hole is not only a mystery, it is selective!
3. Pee on the seat
Bubbie is great at lifting and putting down the seat. It is most likely a long term repercussion (which I am sure will require some sort of therapy when he is an adult) of my fastidious toilet training. Yes, I did encourage him to "blot the tip" while training, and YES he has the cleanest underwear in the house thank.you.very.much to this day! This pee on the seat is about the girls. How in the heck do they manage to get dribble on the seat? Are they hovering in their own bathroom? Are they doing jumping jacks? Did I get confused and encourage them to shake it off while I was teaching Bubbie to blot?
4. Selective Hearing
How come I can whisper something about one of the kids from 3 rooms away and they can hear it, yet when I am right in front of them asking something they can't? Should I yell my secret thoughts to HH and whisper my requests to the offspring?
5. Selective Blindness
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| Actual sign haning in all offspring rooms |
This is the first cousin to Selective Hearing. I find it usually accompanies my request to fetch some object of theirs they are missing. For example, Manudo has selective vision for things as large as her lunch box. I have packed her lunch and remind her to grab it on her way out the door. She opens the fridge, stares RIGHT at the damn thing and says she can't find it! I then will give her detailed directions to the area right in front of her face, and she STILL can't see it! When I point it out, after stomping to the kitchen from the other room where I was importantly updating my FB status, she is all like "Oh....hahahahah....Sorry mom!" Google revealed this is a REAL illness! Refrigerator Blindness. And we all know, if it is on GOOGLE it must be TRUE!
6. Ackbassward Sleeping times
The unique phenomena of kids waking up at the crack of dawn on non-school days, yet having to be dragged kicking and screaming from their beds on school days. Why is it that they go to bed at reasonable times on school days and have a harder time getting up than when they are allowed leniency on the weekends? Perhaps I will do an experiment and let them stay up as late as they want on school days and make them go to bed early on weekends. It would only be fair, since I happen to enjoy sleeping in on my few days off of work!
These are just a few....I am sure as time goes on and I enter the realm of parenting a teenager more phenomena will manifest!
Until next time!
Nic
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