Abandonment and manure

Snip and Snap have extremely interesting conversations in the back of our minivan. This one was about breakfast cereals.

Snip: I love Fruit Loops, but I'm not abandoned to have sugar cereals any more.

Snap: My mom and dad let us have sugar cereals...they even buy Rice Crispies or Grapenuts sometimes. Even though I have only had it twice, my favorite is Captain Crunch, but only Daddy gets to eat that. When he buys it, he hides it, but I find it a lot.

Snip: My daddy hides candy a lot.

Snap: One time I saw a box of Captain Crunch way up high in the pantry, so I got it down and started eating it. But then Daddy found out and he didn't put it back in the pantry. So my brother and I wanted to play a game the next day, so we looked at the games up high in the guest room closet, and we found it again.

Snip: My dad hid a whole ginormous bag of Skittles in his room once.

Snap: My hands smell like maneuver.

Me: What's maneuver, Snap?

Snap: You know, cow poop?

Snip: You mean manure. That's what our soap smells like upstairs where you washed your hands. Sorry.

Me: Our soap does not smell like manure.

Snap: I know what it is. Daddy painted the pantry today and we had to take the shelf paper off. It was DESCUSTING. The paper smelled like manure.

Then they started saying disgusting as loud as they could for at least ten minutes, laughing hilariously the whole time.

BD told me that whenever I get frustrated with our kids, I need to remember moments like this.