The other day, Dan cleaned the kitchen floor Dan-style. Which means on his hands and knees. (I know – you are SO jealous.) He’d already had the bucket out because he cleaned the bathroom floor after an unfortunate accident on Luke’s part. Luke was sick, running a high fever, drinking a TON and just didn’t make it to the toilet. At least he made it to the bathroom, I guess.
Anyhow, I often tell Dan that I don’t clean the kitchen floor more often because every time I clean it, something gets spilled. Immediately.
The jinx holds.
Not 30 minutes after Dan was finished, someone spilled their juice at dinner. My kids have a talent for spilling only full cups of juice or milk. Never do they spill it when it’s almost gone. Our table can hold two leafs in it, so there are some nice spaces for the spilled beverage to leak through to the floor – even if we’re quick enough to catch it before it reaches the edge of the table. Which never happens, anyway.
We may have made it through the following day without any major spills, but it’s doubtful. I’m sure I just blanked it out. Yesterday, however, was the coup de grâce. At EVERY meal a full cup of something was spilled. EVERY meal. It wasn’t just the youngest not being coordinated, either. Three of four children spilled yesterday. And guess what? The one who didn’t cause a spill yesterday caused one first thing this morning at breakfast. I couldn’t believe it. I thought my head was going to pop off my shoulders. Has someone put some kind of drug in their food? One that causes their equilibrium to be off? Do they all need glasses or what?
Maybe I can just find a way to anchor their cups to the table and then have them use straws. Of course, then the cups would never get cleaned and everyone would probably contract some horrible bacteria or something.
I told the kids that if another spill occurred there would be no more beverages at the table. They’ll have to take turns, once the meal is over, and have a drink or two of juice or milk while standing near the sink in the kitchen.
The ShamWow guys will be disppointed.
3 responses so far ↓
1 morethananelectrician // Apr 14, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Cups with lids…even for mom and dad!
2 Kristina // Apr 14, 2009 at 6:01 pm
ShamWow is brilliant! And you’re absolutely right about the jinx. This is why I just NEVER clean my floors… it ensures that my kids stay neat at dinner time.
3 Greg // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Your kids are amazing sis. I spend twenty years in the navy, more than half on ships that went on cruises, been in some serious storms, but not once did I spill my drink at mealtime and the ship was rocking.
FYI, the smaller ships, like the one recently shown on tv, have little indentions in the tables for their drinks and trays
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