It Went Something Like This

Because my daughter had planned a trip out of state I volunteered to keep her two youngest children. E. & M. have stayed with me before and we have a certain understanding of the rules at my house so that leaves us free to enjoy our time together. However, factor in my two grandpuppies and the story changes. Mav and Hammie don't understand the rules, likely don't care that there Are any rules, and maybe wouldn't follow the rules even if they did recognize them. Sometime later my daughter and I have a few phone conversations via cell phone whereby I find out she's sick( and I'm having sympathy pains) and not going the rest of the way on her trip (this is because I threw a hex on her because she was going to N.Y.with the possible intention of moving there and I really don't want her to move). I'm appropriately sympathetic about her illness and suggest that she and her elder daughter D. stay in Springfield, Mo and rest up. In the meantime Mav, I discovered, had torn ALL the insulation tubing off my back door frame. The door that faces North. Okay, not too bad. It can be cleaned up without too much effort and I try to tell myself that the insulation tubing probably needed replaced anyway. And we're cruising into the next day. I'm having fun teasing the kids when I walk into the bathroom and find a pile, and I do mean a pile, of shredded paper that had to equal at least 3 double rolls of toilet paper. If anyone had had an emergency at that particular moment they would have had to retrieve some of the canine saliva soaked paper mounded near the commode. Ewwwwwww!.

The kids and I went shopping for groceries. Back home from our trip they peeled off in the living room and plopped down in their special places,clicking on the remote and begin their interrupted stare at the latest Hannah Montana story. I sallied forth into the kitchen with the groceries and discovered trash scattered over half the kitchen floor. Smelly trash. This misfortune could have been caused by Mav, Hammie or Samber.(I think something like this situation is where the phrase "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" came from this because 6 lb. Della and 14 year old Iyah Dogg could have pulled this off only in their dreams.

Then my daughter calls and signals that it's okay to bring her little chickadees home. So the kids and I stop by a friend's house to feed her two house cats, the elderly stray Uncle Chuck who lives on their back stoop, 4 half grown kittens who were deposited in their garage by a 'loose' mother cat, and BunBun, the ill tempered domestic rabbit that my friends are keeping for a friend of theirs. E. decides to place one of the house cats, Maxwell, inside a box and drive said cat around the house. That silly cat stretched out, looked both ways, nodded his head forward (I swear!) and off they went. Definitely a video moment only I don't have a video, yet. What a neat way to end a chore. We giggled for miles as we recounted memories of Maxwell in his luxury car tooling around the house, indicating directions with a nod of his head. The perfect note to ending another visit with Gran.