Eating the leftovers

Photography by Eliza

Any takers? I was sitting at the computer this morning and looked over and realized that this apple has been sitting on my counter for two days. I keep thinking that someone is going to want to eat it. And I am tired of cleaning up messes. This is my way of rebelling. I will pick up the rest of the house, but the darn apple is going to have to stay unless someone else does something with it. Do you feel like your kids waste a lot of food? Mine do. My dad just said that we should just throw dollar bills away instead of feeding the kids. The funny thing is that my kids have been known to eat worse (than the apple), the latest find was the bag of goldfish crackers floating around the bottom of my car floor, with bits of grass and rocks mixed in. You should have seen Tyler and Eliza duke it out from their car seats. I never knew their arms could reach that far. This prompted me to scour the floor of the car and come up with a slightly sticky lolipop from the bank that I could buy Eliza off with. Who am I kidding. The other day I found a peppermint patty (left over from Christmas) once again, on the floor of the car and ate it. I needed a little sugar rush to make it through car pool.

Back to the apple. My kitchen would be clean if it were not for this apple floating around. I think I subconciously want Gracie to pick it up in her tiny hands and gum at it for awhile. At least it wouldn't go to waste! The weird thing is that it didn't even turn brown it just kind of mummified. I guess I could carve a face in it and have a shrunken head in a few days. I guess I could, if I had a art bone in my body. I checked. I don't. I am going to look for a snack in my car.