Slightly Sarcastic

After a long week of sick kids, school, homework, housecleaning, grocery shopping and puppy potty training I am understandably a bit frazzled and perhaps slightly deranged.  I often daydream and find myself counting down the years, days, months and hours until I will once again have the house to myself.  I dream of clean bathrooms, empty laundry baskets, small grocery bills, s - i - l - e - n - c - e, freedom.  I’m terrible I know, a horrible mom - but I’ll tell ya, sometimes my kids are so damn annoying - cute but annoying.    I told my husband I was going to rent a little one-bedroom down the street and move out - of course I’ll visit every day - get the kids ready for school, wash clothes, fix meals, tuck them in at night give hubby a little nooky and then off I go to my clean, quiet little personal “space” - ahhhhh - I can dream can’t I?

Just a little side note, a messy  funny story - My son Joseph has been practicing cooking lately.  He wanted to make a German Chocolate cake this past weekend.  He got everything mixed up, the oven preheated and was ready to fill up the pans and stick it in the oven.  When he asked me what pans to use I told him the round cake pans and I said you need to use two of them - I should have paid a little more attention to my directions - about 20 minutes after he stuck the pans in the oven I started smelling something burning, went in the kitchen and turned the light on in the oven and what did I see - Joe had poured all the batter into one round cake pan and the batter was overflowing, all over the oven - a lovely mess to clean up, so much fun - anyway, I kinda yelled a little, “Joe, what are you thinking?  Why can’t you listen to me when I tell you to do something?  I SAID USE TWO CAKE PANS!!!!!! He looks at me with his big brown eyes and says “But, mom, I did use two pans.”  WHAT?? “  Now I’m ready to blow - does he think I’m a moron?  “John Joseph (you know he’s in trouble cuz I used both names), I’m standing here looking at this huge mess and I can’t see a 2nd cake pan anywhere, is it invisible?  (and then it hit me) I looked back at the cake pans and guess what, he DID use two cake pans, but instead of filling them both up, he thought I meant two stacked together so only one got filled up.  Then I had to laugh, you can’t stay mad when your kids pull a dorky stunt like that!