Knights Becoming and a Lady in Waiting

Kitchen Challenge?

Have you seen OreoSouza's kitchen challenge?  I was really tempted to try to beat her family, but then I visualized what it would be like...

After six days of careful planning by Queen Mother, the castle residents are ready to take on the Oreos.  Charts are posted.  Supplies are ready.  Everyone is primed.  (King Father, in his usual way, yawns and asks if it wouldn't be easier to just clean the kitchen and go out for ice cream anyway.  He is banned to Siberia... AFTER the challenge.)

Things start off swimmingly... literally.  Queen Mother forgot to include Princess Moo in the plans, so she clambers off to play in the cat water bowl.  The time projected for the challenge falls from 13:18:43 to 14:19:84.  Still under 15 minutes, so we scurry on.

Prince Berryboy decides things are not going fast enough, so he moves from table clearing to dish washing.  The move sends everyone into a panic, as it no longer matches the schedules on the wall.  Projected time falls from 14:19:84 to 16:23:40.  Queen Mother starts on a slow boil.

Prince Derryboy, sulking because his job was taken from him, has to be coaxed back into service.  In his usual manner, he forgives and forgets quickly and is cajoled into clearing the table  (16:24:10).  There is hope on the horizon until he drops an open bottle on the (carpeted) floor.  Projected time: 21:41:51.

Prince Dannyboy decides this is the perfect time to perfect his fingerpainting skills.  He uses the spilled item to gleefully trail three-year-old fingerprints all over the dining room wall.  Magic Erasers are no help, here.  Projected time: 46:18:92.

King Father looks around and dryly remarks that ice cream might be a bad idea.  Queen Mother grits her teeth and continues cleaning up one mess after another.  Princess Moo realizes no one is watching, so she trundles off to discover the joy of dropping Lincoln Logs into the toilet bowl... and then putting them in her mouth.

Queen Mother gives up on cleaning the kitchen entirely and rushes the Princess to the doctor for a heavy dose of antibiotics  (2:19:05:62).  When they return, all the children have to be put to bed before QM can finish cleaning up the kitchen (5:16:32:74), disinfecting the Lincoln Logs (5:21:12:39), and cleaning the toilet bowl (5:24:46:78).

I think we'll wait until the kids are a little older.

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9:56 AM, Aug. 10, 2006 .. Posted by ElCloud

I am not competitive enough to want to challenge OreoSouza. I know better. I have known her long enough to know I could not compete at all. But I'm thinking OreoSouza reminds me of the Cheaper by the Dozen family. LOL!!

April

ROFLOL!!!!

1:54 PM, Aug. 10, 2006 .. Posted by MuckFootMom

What a hoot! I love, especially, the way the projected time goes up, up, WAY up. And the wry King Father. Two Thumbs Up.

Makes me want to write an AndFam version, only mine would include much more screaming, and much less *funny* delays, just ... um ... screaming.