So I’m sitting on the floor of the bathroom playing Words with Friends. My spidey senses are tingling, not because I just figured out how to play my Q without a U, but because my twins are up to something.
I sense danger. Then I hear it.
It’s the unmistakeable sound of flesh on flesh, skulls on floorboards. It’s wrestling.
I do what any parent trying to maintain her sanity (and dignity) on the bathroom floor does.
I open the door and yell. “Stop wrestling!”
As I sit there debating whether or not I should leave my foxhole and crawl to the front lines, I hear Vivian yell in reply, “We’re not wrestling!”
I opt not to engage in the “yes-you-are / no-we’re-not” battle; instead, I shut the door and re-lock it.
Then I hear it, faintly: the response, the one not intended for enemy ears.
Vivian tells William, “Well that got rid of her.”
Indeed.
Now if I could get rid of my three i’s.
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What are some headlines from your life?
Thank you, Leanne. I needed to start the day with a Vivian story. (And my middle name is Elizabeth. Not that I’m bragging.) Powerful Q-play, by the way.
Amy
Had William been a girl, we’d have named him Elizabeth, but would have shortened it to Liza! Alas, another name for another life…
My children are quite legalistic, as well. We’re not wrestling. We’re playing rugby kind of thing. I am happy for you that your bathroom locks.
Future lawyers perhaps?
Mine would say “Mom has angry day at work and is killed by twin 3 year olds”.
That pretty much sums up my Tuesday.
Yikes. Bad Tuesday. Would that be in the Weekly World News?
Thank you for not publishing our game on your blog.That would have been embarrassing. You know since I’m killing you and everything. 🙂
Ha. You normally do beat me, but this time…
What I don’t understand is why does everyone always have to yell at you to get OUT of the bathroom?
Good point!
Wait til they’re teens–they’ll find way to break in! Not that this has ever happened to me…
In regards to certain Canadian-American international relations: the “south” will rise again (in Words With Friends).
Or you can just Blame Canada. It’s been done before. 😉
Break in? When they are teens they LIVE in the bathroom – it is parents who have to break-in to get a shower IF they are lucky enough to find any water left.
So, I hate to nitpick (False. I do not.), but why were you sitting on the floor? Does your “washroom” (look how Canadian I just sounded!) not have a toilet, stool or other acceptable seating apparatus? 🙂
Headline in my life: “Virginia Middle School teacher needs a vacation!”
A vacation indeed. By the way, I think this is our WWF game, so now you know my letters…
Regarding your washroom comment, I can’t hear you! 😉
How slow am I that I didn’t even pick up on this? Ha.
Such a nice way to start the day, reading your stories. My headline might be “Pittsburgh blogger missing, hasn’t been seen on his site for weeks.” Send ice cream.
Soon your headline will be “Pittsburgh blogger rises again.”
Also a good way to start the day.
Thanks for this post and the “Q” word. I completely see myself locking myself in the bathroom or starting a game of hide and seek and hope my girls forget to find me, Especially when it is my turn with Words with Friends! My headline for yesterday was: “It’s a full moon and I didn’t even need to look outside!
It is a good one. I think qi is an alternative spelling of chi. That’s my story.
And I get the full moon thing; as a middle school teacher, I tend to crawl under my desk and cower when it’s full.
I have yet to play Words with Friends, but I might have to now. Thanks for a good laugh to start the day. As for me, it’s “Hermetic Writer Seen Watching Hockey with Ghost of Elvis”
Oh…Ghost of Elvis? Who does he cheer for?
Naturally, the Blues…although he occasionally will go for the honky-tonk Predators. Thankyaverymuch.
I have friends who play Words with Friends on the computer non-stop! Back in the day when I had my children at home, I carried around an enormous cordless telephone and spoke to any adult for the sake of sanity. I thought that was high tech! Too funny!
I know. I’m a bit scared of the phone now. Having said that, I only play WWF on my phone, my iPhone that is.
Ha! Right now I think mine would be “29-year-old Girl, er, Woman, Takes Slushie in the Face in Hopes of Early Retirement.”
Now there’s a story that needs telling.
I LOVE this….ripped from my headlines:)
🙂
“Woman queried about being sister’s mother spends $300 at spa; family bemoans yet more beans for dinner”
Ugh! My sister is 6 years older than me, and I always cringe my sister says to virtual strangers, “Guess who’s older?”
Hiding in the bathroom is sometimes the only way to get through the day. I would have never thought such a thing to be true 5+ years ago, but indeed it is……
Agreed.
I love this! I also loved your postcard. 🙂 It was way better than the credit card offers. 🙂 Thanks!
Glad the postcard arrived. It only took me 6 weeks to write them…
I need to play Words with Friends with you.
Yes, yes you do!
This could be my favourite post of yours
I’m glad I only had one. 🙂
The postcard was wonderful, thanks! oh, and just so you know if you didn’t.. WWF also takes QAT and for that J, it will accept HAJI.. Love WWF’s!