Wednesday, May 3, 2006 - The mystery of the missing crayons...SOLVED!
I was beginning to think that my children were snacking on crayons between meals.
Last August just as school was starting we bought 10 packs of crayolas that were on sale at Wal-mart 4 for $1. I just knew that this surplus of crayons would last us well through the school year...I was wrong.
About Christmas time, as we were ready to make things to decorate the house, I realize that all of the new crayolas are gone.
Every new pack had been emptied and there were only about a half-a-dozen broken crayons in the tub....hmmmm?
After Christmas we restocked with another 5 pack to finish out the school year.
As of last week we were again crayon poor. Where in the world are they going if the kids aren't eating them?!
Over the weekend we bought 5 more boxes of crayons and have them under lock and key...and we didn't bother splurging on our favorite brand. What's the point?! The crayolas don't last any longer around here than the awful ones that are like coloring with a birthday candle, so why spend the money?
I decided that the lost crayons were in another dimension somewhere along with at least one set of keys, my library card, our marriage liscence, and a plethora of missing socks...apperantly a universe that isn't accepting of matching socks as many lonely mates are left to linger in the bottom drawer of my dresser...
but that's a tale for another time.
Today we tackled the children's playroom. I hadn't remembered that there was carpet in there, I hadn't seen it in so long! What a lovely surprise.
My kids are blessed to have an assortment of little tykes type plastic ride on toys in thier playroom from the collection I began to furnish the daycare center I had thought I would be starting a few years ago. Among thier collection is a tug boat, a couple of mind-numbing musical ride ons, a slide and a funky blue rocking horse. As we began to find carpet under the mass of toys and junk, a desire grew to clean out the room and sweep the floor. (Our vacuum recently bit the dust, but again- that's another story...) My dh started lugging the big stuff out when there was a strange rattling from the funky blue horse...
Once upon a time there was a wooden handle piercing "blue's" head where he should have had ears, James discovered that said handle was removable and a handy-dandy makeshift weapon.
It disappeared that very day, but I assure you that was no mystery.
So "blue" was left with a hole in head.
You know where this is going...
To make a long story a bit less long, thus far we have recovered the following items from that funky blue horse:
3 pennies,1 pair of size 3T glow in the dark Dora the Explorer panties
(your guess is as good as mine), 1 steel marble, and about 100 crayolas...looks like they were never even used.
The whereabouts of the other missing items is still unknown.
The dryer is being held for questioning as the main suspect in the dissapearence of at least 27 socks, and possibly my library card.
Comments
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 - Isn't that funny!!
Posted by Sweetie
Well at least you won't need to buy any crayons for this coming year!! That's a hoot!
Thursday, May 4, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Posted by maureenmichele
Well, at least you will appreciate the humor when I tell you that we found about 35 long-missing music cd's under the living room carpet.
