Just when I was starting to worry because I haven’t had any good blog posts lately documenting the obnoxious things my boys do, they came through for me.

Sunday at church the two older boys walked into the chapel ahead of us.  When we got into the chapel, they were gone.  So we put our stuff in a pew towards the back of the chapel and I went out to see if I could find them.  I didn’t look super hard because I figured they might have gone to the bathroom.  When I came back to find them still not there, Rock took a turn around the building.  The meeting started and I assumed that Rock was with them somewhere out in the hall giving them a good talking to.  Just as they were singing the sacrament hymn, I turned and saw Rock in the back of the chapel–with no boys.  That’s when I started to worry a little.  I gave Levi to a friend and left the chapel again to go look.  We searched the entire parking lot, every room, closet and cranny in the building and could not find them.  I was definitely torn between anger and worry. 
Just as Rock was about to get in the car and start driving around the neighborhood he saw the head of our adorable oldest child poke up from the very  front pew of the chapel.  The little stinkers had decided to lie down in the front pew to play a joke on us.  Only, their joke went further than they expected when Mom and Dad didn’t come find them before the meeting started.  Upon seeing that Mom and Dad were not in the chapel, that adorable little head grabbed his little brother and walked out to look for us.  My favorite line was, “What did we do wrong?”  Rather than meet out their punishment there at the church, we made them suffer and stew about it during church.  (insert evil laugh here).  When they finally understood what a bad idea that was and how worried we had been they were sufficiently penitent and their consequence was not overly huge.  And we set up some new rules to make sure this little episode is not repeated!
Then the very next day, worried I’m sure about the state of their mother’s bloglessness, those same two adorable children decided that it would be cool to pick the lock on the office door-just for fun.  I have to tell you that we have already been burned in this area because all the doors upstairs had key locks and we assumed naively that our landlord had provided us with the right keys.  They did not.  And we got to pay a locksmith $100.00 last year to have one opened.  We hadn’t gotten around to replacing the doorknob on the office and thus the little partners in crime had just what they needed for a fun time of lock picking.  Rock discovered what they were doing too late, once the door had been closed and locked. 
Do you know how maddening it is to pay a man $100.00 for 5 minutes of “work” in your home?  What’s more maddening is that I jiggled a little metal thing in the lock too-how come it didn’t work for me?!!!!! 
Yet another lesson learned for our dear children who will be doing  extra chores this week to help work off the expense. 

But on a happier note, I must brag for a minute about the chance I had the same day to read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to none other than…. Darth Vader. 

Such a thrill.  Not many people get that chance.  Only lucky moms like me!

And just because our family (especially Levi) thinks this is the best commercial of ALL time, I had to include this too.