Aug 5 2008
The ketchup top is MIA
It's inevitable that I miss the kids' shenanigans going on around me. I've got too much stuff going on from bill paying, to writing, to folding laundry, and I'm just not that good at giving my undivided attention to several things at once.
Like a few days ago when Lucie was having her favorite white trash meal of bologna and ketchup and wanted a second helping. (It's low fat turkey bologna, and ketchup has lycopene, a powerful antioxidant. Really, it's not as bad as you think.) She decided to serve herself, and I came downstairs to find the living room looking like a high school cafeteria at noon -- food, plates, and cutlery everywhere.
Even though I've told Lucie to ask mommy to get her food, this was not the first time she's helped herself. She's an independent child, and likes doing things herself. This explains why there are four half eaten yogurts -- all of them peach -- sitting in my refrigerator right now.
Lucie and I cleaned up. I showed her that bologna belongs on a plate and not draped all over the coffee table, and that ketchup covered utensils don't belong on the carpet. After we got everything in its proper place, I discovered that the ketchup top was missing. We looked under the sofa and between the couch cushions. I scanned the 'fridge and trash can. It was no where to be found, so back the bottle went, as topless as a Folies Bergere dancer.
Often a household item -- or a favorite piece of jewelry of mine -- goes missing because of the kids. While I know it's somewhere in the house and that it'll eventually turn up, it drives me crazy not knowing where something is. Luckily, I found the cap two days later in the toy box with all the Fisher-Price farm toys.
How it got there is beyond me. Maybe Mr. Farmer needed some ketchup with his fries.
