Thursday, April 23, 2009

Secret Combinations

As I nestled the phone back onto the receiver after making a call this morning, I took note that it was eerily quiet for a house occupied by five young children. Immediately the red flag of suspicion was raised. I walked quietly through the house so as not to alert them (I find immense pleasure in catching them in the act). As I rounded the corner into the hallway, a trail of silver, leading from my open bedroom door to the boy's closed bedroom door, caught my eye.


The light bulb above my head suddenly shone bright.

I tiptoed the rest of the length of the hallway and then threw the door wide open. Three, startled, chocolate-covered faces looked up at me. The massive bag of Hershey kisses (stolen from atop the dresser in mommy's room) lay empty on the floor in front of them, silver wrappers scattered all about.


I collected what little candy had been spared and shuffled the kids off to their rooms while explaining that, because they had chosen to gorge themselves on stolen chocolate, they had forfeited snacks for the duration of the day. Once they were all within the confines of their own rooms, and I within mine, I burst into fits of laughter and laughed until the tears rolled down my cheeks.

The looks on their chocolate-covered faces had been priceless! And I could suddenly recall many a mischievous conquest in my own childhood. And the tears. . .well, I am sure I shed a few at the thought of what these three might be capable of as teenagers!

13 comments:

Mamapierce said...

Chocolate today. Your car tomorrow.

Stacey Kirchner said...

Oh dear. The delights of having triplets. Can't wait until Will and Aiden scheme up something like that. I would have LOVED to have seen their faces. PRICELESS! I am impressed you held in the laughter until you had them in their rooms. I would have busted up laughing the moment I saw the wrappers.

Anonymous said...

Ha! We have these "episodes" at our house too. I hope my kids don't get as creative as me and my siblings were! :)

Anonymous said...

LOL Smart kids, you have there. I always hate that quiet.

liesel said...

How cute. I wish we could have seen the chocolatey faces too!

jessb said...

This story just made my day, thanks!

Grandma DD said...

Oh, I get a kick out of your ability to "back pedal" and just enjoy the moment!!

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