Day 6

Monday was a wild and crazy day.  If you ever have a day free and want to wonder what a day in hell would be like, just gather up you kids (borrow some if you live a kid free life) and head on down the road to the Crayola Factory.  It is cheap enough, $12.00 per person, and you do get to do some crafts and walk out with 4 free freshly made crayons including the mac and cheese color.  Oh but trust me, you need to come prepared to have your kids chained to your hip.  Weld their hands to yours, use super glue, staples or duct tape.   Hey come to think of it, duct tape would be VERY helpful because of its many uses.  First it is easily worn around the wrist as a high fashion bracelet, second, you can fashion a long rope with which you can effectively handcuff each kid to and form a straight line, third you can tape your ears shut, and yes best of all you could run around and tape all of the children's mouths shut.  Trust me their parents will thank you for it.  Just imagine 300-500 children running around screaming and tugging at their parents all wanting the opportunity to touch a crayon, something that we all have no less than 300 sitting in a plastic tub in our homes all in various stages of life.  Somehow when seen at the Crayon factory, that crayon now seems to look like a unicorn flying around a magical land as if to hold some kind of special powers.  Needless to say, it was a mad house.  While it was kind of neat, it was so insane.  

At one point Madison disappeared.  While we looked frantically my mother-in-law notified a factory worker and he enacted their code Adam procedure.  She was quickly located in a play area behind a wall.  I was in tears and feeling both relief and rage.  I was not sure if I should paddle her butt or hug her tight, so I did both and in that order. 

Once we were done there we began to head home.  For some reason, we decided to take the spiral route home.  We got lost 3 times, had to pull over to look for directions.  Once we pulled over just past an exit ramp off of the highway and I was told to back up, yea you heard it, back up and take that exit.  I don't think I was ever so happy to get home and out of the car. 

Funny thing said:  Madison grabbed my chap stick and when I tried to take it away she exclaimed, "No, I need to chap my lips".

It was an exciting day and we are ready to go to bed.

Over and out,

The Wagon Queens