We have lived in our house for 6 years and in those 6 years we have not painted one wall. I figured that with three little ones running about with sticky hands that the paint job I would spend hours on would last long enough for me to say yes it is egg shell white thank you for noticing. But since we have entered the preschool stage for the youngest I was starting to think that it may be nice to have a fresh coat of paint to cover the crayon master pieces on the base boards and jelly hand prints on the wall.
It was gorgeous here today so I got everyone out of pajamas before lunch and we trekked to Home Depot to look at white paint. Evidently there is not just white paint but hundreds of different whites I can choose china white, linen white, super white, ballet white, cloud nine white, white dove and even white shadow but not plain ole' ordinary nothing different about it white.
Right in the middle of comparing egg shell white to super white Ryley had to pee but I told him to hold it because I was in the middle of making one of the biggest decisions of my life, even bigger then deciding if eloping was a smart idea.
Egg Shell white it was but by the time this decision was made Ryley had disappeared. Hurriedly I dropped 50 white paint chips that scattered across the floor and started to search for the missing three year old without loosing two more. Leah saw him first standing in front a row of display toilets in numerous colors and hues. For a second I thought he may have inherited my taste for looking at rainbow colored objects until I saw that his tiny Levis were circled around his ankles and that tinkling sound was not a bird overhead.
My brain stopped working, all I could think was that I had ignored him so much that I made my three year old resort to using a display toilet because his lazy no good mother would not put down paint chips and usher him to the bathroom.
A good person would have found an employee and told them her son peed in the super white display toilet. A good person would have made her son apologize.
But internet I am not a good person, I grabbed his pants, yanked them up and got a football old on him and ran out of the store without any paint.
The walls can wait another 6 years I think.
