Seriously?...

Seriously.

At least they didn't spread honey all over the t.v. and walls (oh yes, they did and do not ask me what possesed them to do that while I was napping with a newborn), or dump every little game piece known to man all over the living room floor.  Don't ask me why I didn't stop that fun little one.  I believe I was even in the kitchen at the time.

But, seriously, yes my kids did this.  My FIVE and SEVEN year old kids this.  And perhaps that's just normal five and seven year old behavior.  It's not to me.  As an adult I came down (only part way b/c at the onset I knew I wouldn't be able to handle the initial stress of it all) and wondered what would make them drag all of our boxes from storage into the play area of the basement and proceed to DUMP all of our stored popcorn (we live far from family and you just never know when you're going to need to send a pkg.~no judgement please for storing popcorn)...and I'm laughing now when I look at the picture, that's a lot of popcorn!

but anyways, ...proceed to DUMP all of our stored popcorn all over the basement floor. 

I asked. 

 Do you want to know the answer?

"Because we made a boat out of the boxes and we were pretending that the popcorn was the water!"

And that was said in the most whineyist voice you can imagine. 

It all started with three chairs.  I ordered three chairs for our learning center and they of course came in big boxes with styrofoam.  The styrofoam was in fun, big rectangular shapes and I literally thought the kids might enjoy building with something different than just blocks.  I even saved a box for each child; big enough for them to sit in and play if they wanted.  I guess I was thinking that all of my children were little two year olds.  What seven year old is going to be content just sitting in a box?

So, with my grand idea in place, I put the boxes and the fun, big styrofoam "blocks" downstairs for a later time.

And then the big kids went down to play.  By themselves.  Oh heavens.  Do you know what rubbing together two pieces of styrofoam will create?  Itty bitty pieces of more styrofoam that will stick to your hair, clothes and walls.

Needless to say, the clean-up took a lot of people and a couple of days.  And, it you'll notice the boxes are stacked nice and neat.  Those were cubbies that held books and movies.

**sidenote; is it weird to store boxes?  We've moved so many times I almost feel insecure if we don't have boxes stored somewhere in our house.  I'll go down to get a box for a pkg. and think, "no, I can't use that box, it's a good one for books."  I actually have that thought sometimes.  That's a little crazy isn't it?

**another sidenote; my mom is supposed to be going home from the hospital tonight.  She's been recovering well, so we hope that nothing unforseen pops up again.