The Bennett Clan: The Fork Incident

Okay, so I'm a Bennett. You can marry me off, change my name, but at the end of the day, the Bennett shines through! So here's the thing ~ don't use a fork to stab the foil thingy on the coffee creamer container. I had made my favorite Southern pecan coffee, and it was waiting ever so fragrantly in my coffee maker on the counter. I had just gotten Morgan on the bus, and came in to get my beloved coffee. I got my cup and set it on the counter, then got my creamer out of the fridge. I took the lid off, and tried in vain to peel away the stupid foil thingy (and yes, that's the technical term for it!). So, brilliant me decides the fork sitting on the counter would be the perfect device for puncturing the stubborn foil......I go to stab it, and end up stabbing the hand holding the creamer bottle!!! Oh the horror, it's my hand! In all the pain and confusion, I knock my coffee cup to the floor, it shatters, and uh oh, the puppy is under my feet! I shoo the pup (he's the newest addition the family, 4 months old, a lab/boxer named Sarge) from the kitchen ~ which, by the way, is about as big as a small closet. Anyway, I grab a paper towel to stop the blood seeping from my hand, clean up the broken cup, pour my creamer, then put the lid back on the creamer bottle. At least I thought I put the lid back on properly......I put the creamer back on the door in the fridge, and go to shut the door, when WHAM! Creamer bottle hops out and falls to the floor, half open, spilling cream all over the bottom of the fridge and the floor. Here comes Sarge, ready to do his little puppy job of licking up anything spilled.....meanwhile, Ethan and Sophie have (unbeknownst to me) acquired the container of Nestle Quik and are having a grand old breakfast of powdered chocolate right out of the container! I get the creamer cleaned up, much to Sarge's dismay, and head into the living room to assess the chocolate damage my kids have done. Sophie is holding the container, looking at me with the deer in the headlights stare.....Ethan is saying "It wasn't me! It was Sophie! SHE got it!!" So I ask him if he ate any....he says "Oh, no, Mommy!" with the tell-tale chocolate ring around his mouth. "Hmmm, I say, "so how did the chocolate get all over your mouth?" He tells me, without missing a beat ~ "Oh, Sophie PUT the chocolate in my mouth, and then she smeared it all over my hands, too!" Oy vey. So, Ethan gets in trouble for lying, Sophie gets in trouble for getting the chocolate out, while I just want to go drink my coffee. But first, I must clean up the powdered chocolate on the couch, floor, and in the kids' toy playpen. I get out my Dyson, which is an amazing vacuum cleaner, by the way, and go to suck up the mess in the playpen ~ but my vacuum is actually too amazing, and it ends up sucking the side of the playpen right off! Luckily, it was one piece, that I removed from my hungry vacuum and can sew back on.......and now I'm licking my wound and drinking my cold coffee.
The kids are playing a rousing game of "let's find all the blankets in the place and make a pile then get under them and fight over Sophie's puppy purse." Ethan keeps saying "But, I'm supposed to be the bandit, Sophie, so you need to let me bandit your puppy! We'll be best friends tomorrow."
Hmmm. Only 4 more months until Ethan starts kindergarten......should be interesting to see what comes out of his mouth there.

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