you looked outside?!? no way! that is the funniest thing ever... i hope brit stops by soon to read that.
hahahahaha
ok so what i didn't write was that along with us eating cake and searching for the toilet brush, i must admit that the picture of brit finding it and chasing us with it while we giggled and screamed did come to mind. so i really started laughing hard all over again when you mentioned brit!!
okay - you know how there's often a story behind things? there's one here too and before i tell it, what i will mention is that while i was looking for it, i did find a pair of s's underwear out in the backyard so the search was not entirely fruitless!!
you must thing i'm bonkers, but i promise there's an explanation for everything
okay the story - about a year and a half ago we had one of our great big parties here, and there were about 15 kids running amok in the basement while all the parents were upstairs chillin'!!
the next morning i go downstairs and the main big play room is of course a disaster, which is no big deal, but plumb smack in the middle of it is laying the toilet plunger!!
i call s and he proceeds to tell me that at some point one of his friends found the plunger that was actually sitting behind the washer, and started chasing them and threatening to touch them with it! it had been thrown all around the room and incidentally wrapped up at some point in my yoga mat - needless to say that kid does not come around no more (well, not really he actually moved, but i was damned relieved!!)
I was plumb horrified!! I suppose i should say that in those days i was still in the throes of severe OCD and anything to do with the inside of a toilet touching anything outside of it was way beyond what i could tolerate. i proceeded to scrub the entire floor with chlorine and washed my yoga mat 3 times!!
now s has another couple of friends who once in a while just do something totally off the wall! usually it involves sudden urges to use an axe or other dangerous tool, or deliberate attempts to jump out of trees and break their necks. and frankly i do NOT put it past this one certain kid to impulsively pick up the toilet brush and take it outside and chase the others around in memory of the plunger incident!!
and to explain the underwear . believe me when i saw it laying there, my first thought was toilet brush, underwear what the hell is going on here?
i brought the underwear in and walked upto s and said - I didn't find the toilet brush but i did find this and he started to laugh hysterically . apparently when 2 of his friends were over the other day, one of them had put the underwear on his head like a hat (yes, i believe it's some thing considered incredibly funny by 11 yr old boys), and the other two were trying to get a pic of him and he ran out in the yard and tossed it
okay so where am i when all this happens? - around. i do leave them to their antics now - but check on them every once in a while.
you know what i thought a while ago - that i am SOOOO lucky to be here with my wonderful friends - there is yet so much joy here in spite of the sadness and grief and pain - and I LOVE that i get to share that with all of you
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"if i could define enlightenment briefly, i would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is"
