Knights Becoming and a Lady in Waiting

When CSI Visits Our House- Part 4

[Would I do that to you, dear Kim?  Okay, yeah.  I'm an oldest child.  I suppose I would do that.  But it's all for your own good.  Too much at one sitting could result in dinner burning. ;)]

I look at the boys, who are actually behaving very well, then back at Sara.  “Well, this is an educational experience.  I thought they could watch and learn something.”

I can see protests forming in Sara’s mind.  Her mouth opens once, then closes.  It starts to open a second time, but she turns around quickly and starts pulling things out of her kit.

“Why aren’t there drapes on the windows in here?” she asks as she starts spraying the room with Luminol.

I shift the Princess to the other hip.  “The boys played Tarzan in here one day when they were supposed to be napping.  The boys were fine, but the curtains didn’t hold up.”

After another one of those looks for any woman who is in so little control of her household that her “princes” can pull down the curtains, Sara snaps her fingers.  The windows are instantly covered with heavy, dark curtains, sending the room into shadows. 

The boys are dutifully impressed.  Unfortunately, this means they don’t want to sit still—they want to go IN the fun, dark room.

Sara is not dutifully impressed.  “I’m... sorry.  This is a crime scene.  You’re going to have to stay out in the hall.  Or downstairs,” she says hopefully, brows going up.

Rather than be sent away entirely, the boys comply and go back to the hall.  Sara turns on her black light and Prince Berryboy pipes up, “I have one of those for my detective kit.  I can see all sorts of neat things with it.  Did yours come with a detective kit?  Did you always want to be a detective?  Do you think I can come in and help you so that I can learn to be a detective better?  Maybe after it’s not a crime scene I can come in and use my light, too?” 

He wasn’t planning on stopping, but after a covert Mommy glare and motion toward the stairs, he takes the hint and puts his hands over his mouth, which is about the only way my oldest prince can stay quiet when he really wants to talk about something.

Sara pretends she didn’t hear a thing.  Or maybe she really didn’t.  She found something.   “Excuse me, but do you know you have blood all over the place here by the door?"

[The suspense won't last much longer.  Really.  To be continued.]

from julie

8:00 PM, Jun. 2, 2006 .. Posted by Juliestew

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juliestew
Three Knights and a Princess

but ... but ...

10:12 PM, Jun. 2, 2006 .. Posted by MuckFootMom

but I'm so sleepy, and it's after 11, and I really don't think I can stay up all night seeing if part 5 pops up on the RSS feed before morning. I really think i have to go to bed.
Oh, oh, maybe YOU will stay up all night and I'll wake up to the rest of the story. Yeah, that's the ticket.