The Most Naughty Thing

Yesterday will be a day to go down in history. My boys did the MOST NAUGHTY thing they have ever done in their short life. My kids are generally well behaved and they do not get into trouble very often. Every now and then they do something naughty, like boys do, but yesterday takes the cake!

It was about 1:00 and I was laying in bed with pain from my sciatica nerve. Jason was sitting in the home-theater upstairs working on photos on his computer. The boys were playing in their bedroom and playing dress up. They ran down the hallway to show Jason and I each costume they had on. They played with cars, driving them up and down the hallway, and they wrestled on their beds in the room. Normal boys stuff.

Then I heard a knock at the door. I ignored it. I was not excepting anyone and I did not feel like getting the door. The knock turned into 2, then 3 then 4. The person at the door became pretty insistent and knocked like crazy and rang the door bell over and over.

FINE! I decided to get it. My next door neighbor was at my door. He came to inform me that my kids were throwing clothes out of a window and that he saw there arms and heads poking out.

WHAT? I was so shocked I did not know what to say. I told him thank you and shut the door. All three boys were next to me at the door and after I shut the door the boys had looks of shame on their face. Then they ran away saying, "I am sorry, I am sorry."

I had no idea how bad it was.

I have special locks on all their windows in their bedroom and playroom. They can not open those windows. 1 other room upstairs is my office and there is a special lock on the door and they can not get into it.

What room was left? The upstairs laundry room. Hmmm...could it be possible? I have a child-proof door knob. How did they get past that?

I walked upstairs and found the laundry room door completely open. (Looks like they figured out the child proof door knob)

I looked into my laundry room and my face turned hot. I think steam came out of my ears. The laundry room window (which is a small double hung window pretty high up) was open and my laundry room was EMPTY.

The boys tossed EVERY THING out into the side yard. I looked out the window and found ALL my dirty laundry, 3 emptied black trash bags of donate clothes, 2 emptied boxes and 3 emptied trash bags of old clothes of the boys (some to donate and some to pack away), some toys, pillows, and some stuffed animals tossed and scattered in the side of the backyard and in my NEIGHBORS yard! This side of my house has a walkway into the backyard and the neighbors fence was close enough for my dirty laundry to land in their back yard.

I was so embarrassed to have to go to my neighbor and ask for my dirty laundry back.

I made the boys clean it all up and carry everything back to the laundry room all by themselves. Then, I sat each boy in a corner in the home theater and they sat there until they went to bed (early!). I fed them snack and dinner in the corner. they did not talk, or play with toys. They were grounded to the corner for hours!!

Tomorrow they will go into the laundry room with me and help me re-sort ALL the laundry, donate clothes, and old clothes. It will be a big job and they will work their little tooshies off putting it all back together.

I still do not know whether to laugh or cry about it.