So…….Geetle and Big Madison were playing Polly Pockets on the front porch after school today. I was sitting nearby reading a book. Pookie, of course, did not want to play, so he wandered into the garage. He came back a few minutes later with a watering can. He told me he needed to water. Ok, I nodded. He went inside and filled it up at the bathroom sink, came back out and watered the evergreen shrubs. Repeat. I figured this could go on for hours, so I turned to my book.
10-15 minutes pass.
I wonder what Pookie is up to. I go look for him.
He’s in the garage.
Washing the car.
With a little blue watering can, a gallon jug of wiper fluid and a drywall sponge.
“Gonna clean it up” he tells me.
Yeah. Washing a car with a dirty drywall sponge is not really “clean.” Its also not really a good idea, as far as maintianing the paint job goes, either.
You know how they say that raising kids costs about $250,000 by the time they reach age 18? I don’t know for sure, but I do not think that cost includes things like new paint job on the minivan, replacing the bedsheets he drew on, replacing the tropical fish when they become bloated and explode from eating an entire can of food in one day, 1 ream of drawing paper a week and a ridiculous number of Crayola markers.
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Oh goodness! Did it mess the paint up bad? Aw, poor Pookie, he was trying so hard to do a good deed!
Don’t worry I don’t think that number includes the $100,000 life insurance policy you get to cash when you catch them doing something that was just the last thing you could handle.
I dont know if this would work for him, since its not neat and orderly, and I also dont know if they have it in your area. But I just went down to our local newspaper office and picked up some “end of the roll” newspaper. It is the last of the paper that is too short to print on. The rolls I got are about 2.5 feet high and about and inch thick worth of paper. It was only $2 and I can just keep rolling it out for the kiddos. Its a thought