Busted!!!

Let me just start with... anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a little bit on the perfectionist side. The other day I asked the girls to clean out their junk drawers. Ellie found all these tiny little multi-colored glass animals that she had forgotten all about. She decided to display them all over her room. Every time I walked in her room to put up laundry, I started to twitch. It took everything in me not to shove all that tiny clutter back in the drawer. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore. I thought to myself, She's enjoyed displaying them for a week. She probably won't even notice if I put them away.

That night Ellie went in her room to get her p.j.'s. The next thing I heard was, "MOM"! I was like, Oh crud, she noticed. I casually walked upstairs and said, "Hey sweetie, what's up?" She was standing there with the drawer wide open and said, "Do you know how all my animals got in this drawer?" I said, "Well uh... I came into your room to put away some laundry this morning and I heard them all crying! I asked them what was wrong. They said that your room was so bright that they couldn't sleep. So I put them in the cozy little drawer." Emma was standing there and totally buying it. Ellie, however, picked up the little glass pig and said, "Is that what happened little pig, or did mommy put you in there because you didn't match my room???" Busted!!! It's such a bummer when kids start to get older and get a mind of their own. They start messing with your feng shui.