Aunts with no Uncles...

Sounds like a charity or something doesn't it?

So today, beautiful weather, yesterday beautiful weather... well at least at my house. Summer seems to be awakening a bit, but if it were to get no warmer than it has been... that'd be fine with me.

I've been working (with the assistance and guidance) of my next door neighbor for the past three days getting the garage's soffits, fascias wrapped in aluminum... gutters go on Sunday. Anyway the school year is winding down and I can remember from when (I was going to say when I was a kid... but... never mind) I was in school that this time of the year was a total blow-off. A couple of weeks to go and then the summer off. Is it just me, or are the summer vacations shorter than back in the day? So with the ending of the school year comes teacher appreciation. This year, there was enough money in the school's coffer to buy a new (used) fridge for the lounge.

Why am I telling you all this? Cuz...

Hey, you're reading it, not me...

ANYway, the point of all this is this... I know... thank God... right? We needed to empty out the van so as to get the fridge in it so that it could be driven to the school and placed into its resting place there. In order to empty the van, certain things needed to come out... like Ana's car seat and Rachael's booster seat. Julie told Jake to take them into the yard. So that's what he did, placed them right on the back lawn. They stayed there overnight.

Today was a 1/2 day for the kids at school, and since Emmah needed to get her assignments in, she decided to go to school today. That meant that I lost my baby sitter. Now I was going to have to split time working outside with my neighbor and stepping in to make sure that no homicides were in the process of being committed. I "warned" my neighbor that I was going to have to check in on them and that I'd have to pick up the kids from school and that once I picked them up, my baby-sitters would be back and I'd be free for the rest of the afternoon.

So the time comes when I have to load up #5 and #6 into the truck... I toss in the seats and secure Ana's and buckle her, then I buckle Lyndsey... and we're off. I get the three from school and drop them off back home keeping #5 & #6 with me for the ride. We're almost to Emmah's school when there's a shriek from behind me and Ana's in a panic.

Now imagine if you will what it must be like (all you two eyed people) to drive with one eye. I know, you're probably thinking... man, I don't know how he does it. Now think about driving with one eye and having to turn around and see what is terrorizing Ana while in motion.

Impossible... right?

What was it... it was the attack of the killer ant. Yup... that's right... a teeny tiny little ant on her leg. By her reaction, you'd think it was eating her flesh. So somehow I managed to save Ana AND stay on the road. Now I roll into the school lot and Lyndsey mutters from the back (the back back) that "I wish I could sit in the middle, then I could feel the air." I asked if she wanted to move up... she did. I moved her. Right about this time Ana lets out another shriek. Now the mom along side of me and the mom behind me are wondering what's going on... they both have smirks. If they only knew. Yes, it was another ant. Then Lyndsey goes off. I'm trying to figure out if the ants are falling from the sky through the open moon roof. Then I realize what's going on.

If you take one car seat infested with food crumbs and such... leave it to sit in the grass overnight... and then take said seat and put it in the truck... chances are good that there might be some ants (without uncles) and said ants might be inclined to wander. That's exactly what happened cuz when I got home and got them out of their seats and the seats out of the car... there were about 20 or so ants wandering around.

No doubt looking for the uncles.

KEIYTAP