The Friday after Thanksgiving gave the ladies a chance to have a surprise birthday party/crab boil together and the guys could get together to play PS3. Eddie volunteered our house for the guys.
Before leaving the house I took a few walk throughs and made sure there was nothing (ummm how should I say it) EXPLOSIVE, FLAMMABLE or SHARP hanging around. With 5 years as a safety monitor under my belt, I felt like I had done a pretty, darn good job clearing things. We grabbed our purses and the ladies were on our way to adult solitude!
There were a total of 4 different families at our house. ALL the kids were B.O.Y.S. -- every single one of them! All of them are 100% boys too! 8 years old, 7 years old, 5 years old, 4 years old, 17 months and 15 months.
A few hours later I walked into (I'll try to help you make a mental picture of this):
-- PS3 Black Ops was still on (no surprise there)
-- the boys cleaned up Elijah's room - there was a mixed pile of toys and clothes pushed to the corner of his room? huh?
-- the bottom 24 inches of the Christmas tree was ornamentless........I guess the lights and shiny ornaments were too much for the younger two. On a good note - all the ornaments were sitting on top of the kitchen table -- unbroken ☺
-- a bowl of glass balls (usually sits in the bookcase) high on some furniture
-- laughter from the older boys in the backroom (my FAV part)
-- aaaaaand this 36 inch vase.... the absolute best part! Sitting on kitchen table also. Eddie said that it was all like the "quickest, slow motion he had ever seen". Take a second....please reread that description -- that is directly from Eddie! He saw it about to happen, but he just couldn't get to the kids on time.
These families are TRULY like family to us! We do MOST things together - I am 100% positive that Elijah has broken things at their house too! NO HARM, NO FOUL! Just great memories of our extended family here in Misawa!
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