The kids.

I'm watching the kids (Ebbas and Susans) while they prep for the TBB garage sale. One would think that "watching" 7 kids would be tough, but as you tell (since I am posting this real time),it isn't.

First they played in pairs...Fiona and Miranda,Sebastian and Fletcher, Allison and Parker, but then they decided to play duck, duck, goose. Sebastian is apparently new to this game since he just kept saying duck. Miranda yells, "Say something else now! Say Goose!" So Sebastian walks around the circle saying "Goose. Goose. Goose."

Then they went on to a new game that I didn't follow that was some combination of duck, duck, goose and tag and was called JetPot. Parker was,of course, the maker and enforcer of the ridiculous rules.

At one point it seemed so quiet, I got up from Ebba's computer to see what was going on. I looked over at them all sitting on the floor. I counted, "Two, Four, Six, Seven." Yup...all accounted for. They all looked at me, as if to say, "Yeah? What is your problem?" It felt like we were missing a few, but weren't.

Now, Fiona, Elizabeth, Sebastian and Fletcher are drawing while Parker and Allison (later joined by Miranda) are playing something called Queen/King of the Mountain.Someone yells one of those and then says, "It's raining!" They others cracked up and it starts over. Apparently rain goes with the queen, but not king, something Miranda keeps pointing out to anyone that will listen.

Back when we all had babies and were covered in drool and whatnot, we looked forward to the days like these. I find it amazing the future is now the present.