MAGNETIC FINGERS

    Does your children have magnetic fingers? Mine do. When they cross the threshold into my room their fingers magically become magnetic. Every thing that they see becomes magnetic and is drawn their hands. My drawers start shaking and calling their names. They find my secret stash of orange tic-tacs. They attempt to carry around whatever fragile items I have on my dresser. My antique typewriter moans with despair as they start walking towards it. If I walk out of my room while they are still in it, all of my things are rearranged, my drawers have mysteriously been opened and not quite closed. My perfectly made bed looks like pigs wallowed on it and now has grit in the sheets. My closet light has been turned on and my shoes have been gone through and some are now missing. It is amazing! Who knew kids had super powers?
    It is equally amazing that when they go in their room to clean it all of their stuff is coursing with electricity and it shocks their little hands when they attempt to pick up dirty clothes, toys or books on the floor. It is a painful experience for them to have to go through daily. The bed has a force field around it that prevents them from making it up. Their shoe organizer is allergic to shoes and keeps throwing them up in the bottom of the closet. The hangers are too weak to hold pants and shirts. So, the shoes and clothes have a meeting of protest at the bottom of the closet. The videos and DVDs have an invisible lock on them. Once you take the video or DVD from its case, you cannot get it back in. It is phenomenal!
    The bathroom is another story. The floor always has water in it. It must be the Barbies having a pool party when the door closes. Only one seat is lifted when my Jayden uses the bathroom so I hear a shrill scream when my Chloe goes in the bathroom to use the restroom. "CLEAN OFF THE TOILET!" The little shiny apparatus on the back of the commode never works when they go to the bathroom. It as if they walk into the bathroom and their memory is wiped clean. They get into the tub and cannot remember to get a towel or their lufa or how to wash their hair. Most of the time if I come in to speed up the process Chloe's hair is wet but no shampoo has made its way to the top. Jayden is attempting to get out of the tub with shampoo still in his hair.  When they get out of the tub, they forget to use their towel on their feet first and seem struck with blindness because they are incapable of seeing the pile of dirty clothes they created before they got into the tub. Now moving to the sink. Their toothbrushes practically jump out of the cabinet but they refuse to go back in. The vitamin bottle is a snap to open but the lid becomes way too heavy to pick up and put back on once vitamins are removed. The toothpaste in the easy to use container, magically squirts toothpaste all over the sink. There is little drops of toothpaste and water all over the mirror 3' above their heads. The rug is in a ball on the floor and it looks like there was a struggle of a lifetime in the bathroom. They walk out of the bathroom and their memory amazingly is restored but everything that just took place in the bathroom is as if it never happened.
    I don't know about your kids, but mine have super powers! Honestly, this is not an everyday occurrence. My kids are generally very tidy because I cannot handle stuff out of place for very long. They make their beds and clean their rooms daily. It's those times when you clean the house for the last time and walk through and the toys magically fall out of the toy boxes and the empty sink is having a sink side party with most of the dishes in the cabinets. The milk struggles with the cold of the refrigerator so it periodically sits on the counter to warm up. The cereal is so hard to zip lock shut to I get a burst of crumbs in the face when I pick it up not realizing it hasn't been closed....again. You know how it is. You wouldn't trade your kids for anything and everything in the world, but every once in a while you would like a consecutive ten minutes without a mess or being called in for a non-emergency. Being a mom is the best and hardest job ever created. It isn't a job for sissies. Just keep your cool and use it as a teaching tool. They will be the best cleaners in the county!!