March 5, 2010

The joys of parenthood

This morning:
B: "Honey, the toilet isn't flushing very well."
Me: "Well, yesterday the kids were playing around in there."

B: "Why did you let them play in the toilet?"
Me (defensively): " I did NOT let them play in there, but I was busy cleaning, cooking, laundering, working on YW stuff, and still checking on them every so often."
B: "Well something happened, cause this toilet ain't working."
Me: "When I went in yesterday I saved 2 train cars and 5 alien men from a fate worse then death, they were just swirling around in there waiting to be flushed away"

I thought I got everything, but aparently not when the plumber came and had to physically take the toilet out to the backyard to try and get out whatever was stuck in there. After an hour, he said, "you need a new toilet, I have no idea what is in there." When he broke open the thing to see what it was, there in the bowels of the beast was a large, round hair curler and one of the train peices. So one trip to the Home Depot and $350.00 later, we have a new toilet. Yipeee.
Well kids, there goes your college fund.