Thursday, June 11, 2009

Is it a sin?

I've spent some of this morning trying to recuperate from a trip to the Children's Museum with all 4 kids -- by myself. Cookie Monster stood at one display (I guess the non-working sinks made him think of running water) and looked up at me calmly and said "I'm peeing."
"Stop!" I shouted, trying to be calm. But the fountain just kept running, down his leg and onto the carpet. What was I thinking, asking a three-year-old who is potty training to control his bladder?
So all 5 of us trekked to the bathrooms to discover the dreaded yellow sign saying it was closed for cleaning. I mentioned to the young teen working in the area that there was a cleanup in aisle 9. She said they would take care of it. "They" meant the man currently in the ladies room, who would not budge so I could remove Cookie Monster's clothes.
Sorry -- brief sidenote -- I'm laughing to myself because we were in Cookie Monster's playground at the time -- a Sesame Street display!
So I waited outside the door for a few moments. The young teen told me I could go downstairs to the other restrooms. Sorry, I said, we'll just wait so as not to stomp his pee-covered shoes down the elevator.
So I just at on the bench outside the bathroom and used Farmer Boy and the Princess as a shield for Cookie Monster's bare bottom to change him. Needless to say, the pull-up replaced the "big boy" pants at that moment.
Oh, and while the quick change took place, LaRue stood at a window overlooking the main floor -- licking it clean!
Guess hand-sanitizer doesn't work for that one.
So I was just kind of vegging this morning, working on some Vacation Bible School things in the living room and trying to recuperate.
I wondered, as I looked over the booklet filled with Bible verses and references to God: is it a sin that I can hear my dear husband in the dining room laughing and playing with the kids and.....
TEACHING THEM HOW TO PLAY POKER??? Oh, and they are using REAL poker chips.
Guess I have a new prayer for the VBS prayer list?

1 comment:

Dana said...

Hey, I say if they were fairly quiet, letting you do what you needed to do and not suffering from some sort of intense verbal diarrhea, I say let them play poker with dad all day :)