MURDER ON RASON ROAD

I should have called this post "Almost Murder" because I didn't actually kill Spod.  Wanted to.  But didn't.

Kevin and family are coming today.  They have never seen the house, so I would like it to be all done and clean.  Plus there are a million other things to take care of.  I decided that instead of fighting with Spod to get him to do anything on my schedule, I would give him a job that I wasn't depending on him timewise.  In other words, he can get it done on his own schedule, not mine.

Gargabe.  As our kitchen bags fill, they get bundled up and put out the door.  I asked if he would please get them into the back of the truck.  Thats all.  After about an hour, when the garbage had yet to be touched, I did go out armed with big black garbage bags and stuffed the smaller white ones into the bigger ones…cheaper at the dump.  About an hour later I moved them to the driveway, all in one pile.  

A while after that I saw Spod let Parker outside and then Spod went off to the bathroom. Ages later I went to make sure Parker had been let in again and saw he had gotten into the garbage.  I went bouncing into the bedroom where Spod was and singsonged…"the dog spread the garbage around, you will have to pick it up now"  And he responded with this….."Well, you should have put the garbage in the truck.  And you shouldn't have let Parker out."   I saw red, literally, I actually saw red.

I shant go into the ugly details here, but let me tell you that I do believe he regretted that little comment.  Jeez..I got in his face and let fly, listing every single thing I had done from the moment I fell out of bed that morning which included, cleaning up the 'well' (bottom of the stairs), doing the laundry, making up the beds in the bedrooms, cleaning the kitchen for the millionth time, cleaning up the bedroom and making the bed, making a giant pot of dahl, making banana bread finally, sweeping, washed my hair (shovel list to the power of infinity), took crap to the garage, cleaned up the front of the house, moved stuff around out there so it looks better and on and on and on.  I reminded him that I had offered to arrange for him to spend Christmas in Maui and he declined.  So now he has to act accordingly.  Jeez Louise!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if mothers across the nation are being asked by every one of their spawn "what should I get for So and So." Mothers already have to figure out their own gifts to give the family members but they also have to come up with awesome ideas for those members to buy each other.  The thing is, we DO know what to get them within the giver's price point.  I have decided we should all be called the "Gift Whisperers".  I feel like a puppeteer, whispering into the phone, exactly the right thing that the recipient really really wants!  Its kind of fun.

This year I told my kids I didn't do stockings….but I did.  They responded well to  my statement, but I could tell that in a couple of them there was just a tad  spot of disappointment.  It was so much fun getting everything too.  You watch..now they will decide to read my blog for the first time in ages.  Hopefully not!

I had best go.  Kevin and family are due to show up at any moment.  TTYL