I Paint What I See

Ever have one of those ‘I think I might be living in a sitcom’ moments?

Emily:

• We have 2 bowls of candy and it’s crazy trying to keep Owen and Marshall out of them so I hide one in oven when they aren’t looking.
• Owen is home from school and wants to ’sort’ the candy we are giving out.
• He’s tired and eventually falls asleep in our bed.
• Matt’s not home when he said he would be (surprise) but that’s ok, I’ll let Owen nap more.
• 5:20 PM – Matt gets home (finally) and I go to wake Owen up while Matt watches Marshall and starts making dinner. Owen, as per usual, does NOT wake up well and 15 minutes of de-grumpify-ing negotiations begins.

Matt:

• Drive home sucked. Home about 40 minutes later than planned, traffic on water street backed up for a long way and moving at a snails pace because of parade (and idiotic Ellsworth traffic patterns that favor businesses and tourists over residents). It’s also the 2 year anniversary of the night I killed our Saturn in an accident so I’m extra on-edge… no more accidents.. especially on Halloween.
• I’m in charge of dinner tonight so I enter the house in a rush.
• Em mentions Owen is asleep upstairs and goes to wake him.
• Double check that we are still doing dinner BEFORE trick-or-treating and then begin.
• Luckily it’s a simple dinner tonight, frozen pizzas.
• Get pizzas
• Unbox. .
• Find baking pan
• Pre-heat to 425
• Set table places
• Cook the french bread cheese pizzas in microwave for 2 minutes first
• Put all pizzas on baking pan… they barely all fit but it works..sweet.
• Ahh… pre-heating done, check that Marshall is far away from kitchen area and with one hand on baking pan, open oven with other hand.
• Start putting baking pan in oven and notice big metal bowl is in there… that’s strange.. what was Emily cooking ?? Wait.. it’s another candy bowl? In the OVEN???
• Scream ‘AIGH!! EMILLLLLLY!!!’
• Emily yells down ‘SORRY!’.
• First instinct – Grab the bowl with my free hand to get it out of there ASAP
• Ouch! Bowl is metal and has been pre-heated to 425 degrees. %&$#@!

Luckily, we had 2 bowls of candy and we only get a few kids so we’re ok. Also luckily the worst that happened is some candy bars got a little mushy and the plastic ‘Brach’s’ candy corner bag that was on the top has shrunk wrap itself sealed. A few more minutes and we would have had a chocolate & plastic stew.

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

– Author unknown

Thanks to Tim O for posting this on facebook. I’d heard it before but had forgotten about it.