Six of One, Half Dozen of Another

Currently there are six kids in the back yard making enough noise to raise a Dad on a Sunday morning. Dawn is off peddling some craft or another and I am home with the kids. I will concede now that it is a double standard for me to feel like I am babysitting, but I do. We've managed to have a good day so far. After lunch when I was abandoned I pulled out the coupons from the Sunday morning paper and invented the "Coupon Game." Each person picks a coupon and then we go to the store to buy it. We came home with Vanilla Burst Ice Cream, chocolate Lucky Charms cereal, and Ultimate Fudge Brownie mix. We had to go to two stores to find everything, but it killed an hour of my day and we spent less than $5. As much as a trip to Starbucks would have been which is my usual diversion. We got back, had a bowl of ice cream, and two hours later everyone is still outside playing. I turned my life into a commercial a little bit ago and took out cups of kool-aid for everyone. It was supposed to rain today so I was prepared for a long afternoon indoors, but at this rate it will be dinner time before I know it. Of course we are averaging a melt down every hours or so, but nothing that has brought a halt to the playing. If it does break up I still have my ace in the hole - we'll make brownies.