today's recipe....

Today's recipe may be hard to follow, but I can GUARANTEE the results!

1. Take one 7 year old boy, add a large rock and a big mud puddle.

2. Add the large rock to the mud puddle while standing close. Make sure your sister is standing close too.

3. Come home COVERED from head to toe in mud.

4. Strip down clothes, coats, and backpacks and put them into clothes washer.

5. Mom, (who is remarkably still being patient and understanding at this point) washes the load of very dirty things.

6. Mom then puts the things into the dryer.

7. The result is that everything is ruined! Not by the aforementioned mud, but by the purple and blue crayon left in the backpack somewhere. Not only are the clothes ruined, but the dryer now has all kinds of great looking melted wax inside that has to be scraped out by mom (who lost her understanding and patience a while ago)

8. Grand total of ruined things: 2 shirts (one was brand new), 2 pairs of pants, two winter coats, and two backpacks.

9. recommendation: do not repeat this recipe EVER AGAIN!