stunned into speechlessness

Not sure if speechlessness is really a word but there really is no other word for it........

At Christmas time I always am the one who sits and opens all the adult-proof child toys. You know the ones. There are heated plastic that look as if they have been crimped around the corners. The best and easiest way to open them is via grenade. I believe this past Christmas I must have spent and hour sitting on the couch untwisting, cutting, ripping and tearing. But cutting those plastic, crimped packages just made my skin crawl not to mention killed my fingers and hands.

So every once and a while I will save a Christmas present they received and not open it. If they received two new games I will open one and save the other. Later in the year it is like receiving it all over again. The kids get excited about opening it and it is a new challenge for them that just maybe I get 15 minutes of peace until they master it.

So, Jack......yes leave it to Jack....finds a gift he received at some previous birthday or Christmas that Phil and I bought him. It is one of the V-Tech games that has a kids remote with big buttons that light up and easy to hold. At this point I have no idea that he has found it. Do you want to know how I found out he has found this game and wants it open........Really you must just try and guess how I found out he wanted this new discovery opened......Don't want to guess......not like it matters you would never get it anyway..........

As I am in the bathroom, I just walked in the shower and closed the curtain.....He bust open the bathroom door whips open the curtain and says,"Mommy can you open this for me?"

It takes me about 15 seconds to collect myself and pull the curtain back over me and my birthday suit......I wanted to say Yeah Honey let me just pull my McGiver knife out I keep it attached to the wall of the shower....doesn't every mom. But he wouldn't get that. So I politely told him he needed to ask his dad downstairs to open it for him. Stunningly enough he did what I asked and was playing the game once I emerged from the shower in my non-Birthday suit attire.

When I told Phil what he did to me first, Phil just laughed....what could he do.

Just about the time I think life will be quiet and boring for a while Jack pulls out a zinger.

Hopefully, you were able to read the rest of this through the laughter.

TTFN~