The Baby Powder Incident

Well, the trouble makers really went all out today! Little M and her best friend Busy had a playdate today while we moms were painting Busy's family room. We should have known something was up when they were getting along so well and being quiet in Busy's room. The smell of baby powder in the stairway didn't bode well. The dense fog and triumphant giggles of something that sounded like "magic fairy dust!" cinched it. A few too many unsupervised minutes and a large container of baby powder can result in quite a mess. Combine two little girls, who happen to be running around completely naked and covered in white powder, with two exhausted moms who have been painting for two days, and this scene had the potential to go very bad very fast. Of course, we're both Super Moms, so we shut the door again while we briefly controlled our own fits of giggles. When we finally had our "serious" faces on again, we directed the girls in helping wipe off toys while we vacuumed and cleaned. I'm sure Busy's mom will still be dusting and vacuuming that stuff up for months. Both girls will have to give a dollar each of their own money to pay for the powder they've wasted, and they are restricted from playing with each other for a week, except at school. I'll also be helping Madison write an apology note. Excellent letter practice! Ooooooooh, Sneaky Mom!

Even with the extra diversion of The Baby Powder Incident, we finished up the family room, and even had time and paint left to hit the entry way. I have to credit that in great part to my husband, who got us off to a running start yesterday. Otherwise, we'd still have another day of work, I think. Now let's just keep our fingers crossed that it looks good tomorrow in daylight!

Random updates:

• I won talentships on both drawings I submitted to the student art show. Yay!
  
• The house is coming along, though it's looking like a June move-in is unlikely. Shall we hope for July?
  
• The Spring Break trip went VERY well. M is still talking about it. She got lots of quality time with Grandma.
• Looks like we're driving up to I.F. and Yellowstone and doing at least a week there with family stuff, instead of flying in for the weekend for the Eagle Store's 100th. Yay!