A snippet of life

Today was a play date day.  Katie has been looking forward to going to Josephine’s house all week.  She was being picked up at 9:30AM.  We got up with the older kids, got the dishes and clothes and some work done.  Katie had snack at school and wanted to bring popcorn with M&M’s mixed in (well, she actually wanted to bring Goldfish, but we didn’t make it to the store to get them), so I stayed up making popcorn and loading it into bags.  I had it all ready for her to take with her as she was then going to school with Josephine.  Feeling pretty good about how productive we had been all morning, we came downstairs about 9:20 to answer the phone.  Then we saw…

Goliath had gotten into the bag of popcorn.  Luckily, he only got two of the bags.  So I quickly made a bag of microwave popcorn (the rest was stove-popped, but you do what you need to do).  As I was finishing remaking that bag, Mary came running through the kitchen – naked – saying she needed to go potty on the potty seat.  Ok, let’s do that then.  I get her on the potty and the doorbell rings.  Josephine and her mommy and brother were here pick up Katie.  I get Samson downstairs and let them in.  They had a wonderful present for Rachel and yummy cookies for us.  No sooner had I opened the door, Mary runs out of the bathroom yelling, “Hi!  I NAKIE!”  Ok, at that point, there was nothing left to do but laugh.  Such is life!

Here’s the irony: due to a leaky ceiling, school ended up being canceled.  We REALLY enjoyed LOTS of popcorn all afternoon!  And maybe Mary will be potty-trained sooner than we expect.  And I will treasure these moments because way too soon, the house will be too quiet and the craziness will only be a memory.  (remind me of that the next time…)