Breakfast is generally fun at Jimmys house. Except for this morning when Jimmy dropped his toast on the floor. Of course the jelly side flipped over so the sweet grape flavor has every opportunity to stain the carpet. A mouth encircled in purple looks at the floor from his highchair vantage point and says, Uh oh. Then came the awarding winning grin and tilted head that melts a mothers heart.
Scruffy, the family Schnauzer ambles into the kitchen and works to remove the evidence before he is shooed out the back door. Jenny is grabbing her backpack and Stacy is looking for her earrings the ones she just had to get at the mall this past weekend. Like usual most of the breakfast items are ignored as everyone scrambles for the door heading to school.
And just like that little Jimmy is left alone with mommy in the midst of morning dishes, a pile of laundry, a diaper change and a ten oclock hair appointment Jimmys first.
Believe it or not, this is just the way mommy likes it.
Before Jimmy came along his mom would make a mad dash to school to get her oldest two girls to school on time. Then she was off to work where she would always apologize for being...