Thursday, November 17, 2011

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

It's been a whole DAY of rain and laundry and schedules and piano and gymnastics and dishes and unpacking and picking noses ...

AND

We miss the sun.

We also miss Squishy.

We also would like to award Lovergies with a Winner of the Year award.

Not the Whiner of the Year award...that goes to one of the bugs.

Winner...because he lived with us for more than two weeks.

Did you know he's a bachelor?

Can you imagine how horrible it is for a bachelor to live with his sister and way-cool brother-in-law, plus their baby, plus their three other children (one of whom has atomic farts), and his mother for two weeks?

Albeit in Hawaii, but STILL.

He sat on the couch while four little bugs skooched around him in their wet suits.

He carpooled without complaining.

He teased the ones that like teasing.

He educated the ones that like education.

He found a Power Ranger figurine and used it as the treasure in a Treasure Hunt for you know who.

He took The Fish swimming.

Amazing.
 
But ultimately he had to be hooked up to an IV margarita of Diet Coke and Percocet to survive.

As we packed up the last day we heard him mutter, "I can't wait to get home to my own box of goldfish."

On the flight home he paid extra money to sit away from us.  Even after looking around the cabins we still couldn't find him.  I'm certain he hunkered in the leg room and covered himself with a blanket.

When we landed he reappeared on the off ramp looking refreshed (and smug).

Yup - he's a winner. You wanna know why?

Because when we originally asked him to make it three weeks he declined.