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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

My Birthday Blunder

Today at playgroup we celebrated my older son's (OS) 5th birthday for the first of three planned times this year. Of course he just loved it. I'm of the mindset that part of childhood is being able to celebrate your birthday as many times as possible. In fact, if I could figure out how to extend my own birthday celebrations over multiple days, believe me I would. Parties, presents, not to mention cake. What's not to love?

I took care of baking the cake (slight pause for that shocker to sink in) and fulfilling my other playgroup hostess responsibilities. I thought the Big Giraffe was in charge of making sure there was no evidence of our golden retriever, Gandalph, in the backyard. The Big Giraffe merely thought he was in charge of removing a specific type of evidence that Gandalph leaves around the yard. A lawyer might call it...solid evidence. I'm sure you know what that evidence is.

Our friends arrived, and we went into our backyard. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a whole bunch of white fluff. I went off to start picking it up, but there was just way too much of it. While I discussed it with one friend, I decided to just hope that none of the kids and none of the other adults would notice it. The one friend in the know and I couldn't decide if Gandalph had destroyed a stuffed animal, or if the Big Giraffe had accidentally run it over with the lawn mower.

After the party ended, I went back outside to finish cleaning up and to put the cover back on the sandbox. That's when I almost had a heart attack. As I picked up the nylon cover, something rolled out of it and stopped. Did I just see an eye looking at me? Sure enough it was. Right next to the sandbox was the head of a stuffed animal gopher that had been cleanly severed from it's body. It looked like Gandalph had started to destroy it, before the Big Giraffe decapitated it. Or maybe just an alternate ending to Caddy Shack. Let's just hope that none of the kids saw it. I would not want children's dreams of parties, presents and cake to include chopped up stuffed animals.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Clear expectations avoid misunderstandings.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 7:58 PM   7 comments
7 Comments:

  • At 8/27/2008 9:22 PM, Blogger Jen of A2eatwrite said…

    Oh, Alex, this had me laughing out loud!

    I'm glad OS gets special celebrations for his special b'day!

     

  • At 8/27/2008 10:12 PM, Blogger Heather said…

    Awww. Poor gopher.

     

  • At 8/28/2008 8:12 AM, Blogger Tracey said…

    Seriously? I thought you were going to say it was a shredded sanitary napkin. My own childhood dog had a tendency to dig through the garbage and chew them up behind the recliner, so that our boyfriends could get a good look at them when we cuddled on the couch. Nice, eh?

     

  • At 8/28/2008 9:06 AM, Blogger Goofball said…

    oh well nobody seems to have noticed, you had no bunch of crying children in your backyard.


    And if they would have found it, you could have turned a "bunny buriel" into a party activity???
    Hmm maybe not.

     

  • At 8/28/2008 11:08 AM, Blogger skiplovey said…

    No traumatized kids? Well then, sounds like a success.

    You baked? Wow!

     

  • At 8/28/2008 9:35 PM, Blogger Kami said…

    Oh dear, the poor gopher! An untimely end it did come to.

    Hopefully no child was traumatized

    :-)

     

  • At 8/28/2008 11:38 PM, Blogger painted maypole said…

    ha ha ha ha

    now I'm singing that song from caddyshack

    "i'm all right... don't nobody worry 'bout me"

     
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