Houdini

Yesterday was one of those looooooonnnnggggg days.  Not a particularly bad day - just lots of stuff on the To-Do List ranging from a boat-load of laundry to getting a cavity filled at the dentist office.  For the most part, the kids did pretty well.  There was very little fighting and only a small amount of mischief making.  BUT getting toward bedtime the effects of a busy day had begun to set in on all of us.  

For J and I that means that we were relaxing in our bonus room talking about his day at work.  For the kids that means they were WIRED (Time Out:  WHY is that anyway??? For adults when we get tired we start slowing down - relaxing;  My kids get tired and they turn into maniacs...it's like they try to run from sleep as one would run from an assailant???)  Anyhow, the kids were in C's bedroom playing.  I KNEW this was a bad idea - just too much energy for one small room to handle - but I was tired, so against my better judgment I allowed it.  Then I noticed out the corner of my eye C's bedroom light flickering.  I couldn't see the actual light bulb - just the flickering light reflecting on the wall across from his doorway.  I figured that his light bulb had somehow gotten loose so I went in to see if I could tighten it up.  Well...the light bulb was fine...but his fan was definitely NOT!   

Somehow!?!?! one of the fan blades had been bent downward  and the fan was now slowly wobbling around and around and around - it reminded me of a flat tire on a car right before the driver pulls off the road.  The flickering I'd seen was the shadow of the almost-decapitated fan blade as it went round and round and round.  WHAT tha heck!?! Who KNEW I lived with Tarzan!! J came in to check things out, and as soon as he touched the gimp blade it broke off into his hand.

At this point, I played the "I had a cavity filled this afternoon, I can't deal with this right now" card and passed the parenting baton to J to handle as he saw fit.  G was sent out of the room.  C was questioned and J headed down the stairs to the garage.  Honestly, I wasn't sure what J was up to in the garage...kinda thought maybe he just needed a minute or two to compose himself. :)  He returned from the garage a few minutes later with Replacement Fan Blade Holder Thingies...you know the metal piece that holds the fan blade to the fan.  WHO has THAT just hanging out in their garage!?!  And this is not the first time that something like this has happened...he pulls little random pieces and parts out of his garage that no normal person should just have laying around regularly...it's like the garage is his very own giant Magic Black Hat...

I'm tell'n you - that man's got secret powers...not that I'm complaining :)