Helpful…

We’re getting ready to go on another trip, which means that there’s lots to do.  We generally try to have the house in good order when we leave so that when we come back, the house is in good order.  This morning, I had changed the sheets on our bed and Sim’s bed, and then I sent the girls upstairs to get dressed and strip their beds so I could put clean sheets on them.

Pretty soon I heard:

H:  MOM! Come see what we did!

N:  MAMA!  Come up!  Come up!

H:  Come see what we did to your bed!

[At this point, I had a pretty clear picture of what they might have done to my bed.  I was right…]

H:  LOOK!

Me:  Wow!  You stripped my bed!

H:  Yeah.  It was quite a job!

Me:  I’m impressed.  I didn’t know you could do that.

N:  Yeah.  It was a lot of work.

Me:  You know what the funny thing is?

H:  What?

Me:  I had already changed our sheets!  But next time I’ll know that you two can strip the bed for me! 

H:  Oh!  Haha!  Well, I don’t know if we’ll be able to get the sheets back on…

Me:  No, that’s okay.  I’ll put them back on. 

It was so sweet of them to try to be helpful, and I was sorry to have to tell them I’d already done the job, but I did need to put those sheets back on, and they would have wondered what I was doing if I’d put them back on without telling them they were clean already. 

But next time, I won’t put new sheets on my bed until after they’ve stripped it!