Lying to My Mother

[ricevermicelli]

My mother is coming tomorrow, to take care of the kid, since it's a national holiday. She really wants to. I'd be disappointing her if I canceled. But I have spent the day in a process of arranging things so that my mother will (I hope) believe falsehoods.

I have cleaned the bathrooms. So that she will believe we are clean people! And perhaps even believe that we clean the bathrooms on a regular and somewhat frequent basis!

I have tidied the living room, so that it will not even occur to her that we might allow the baby to play with unplugged hotplates.

If I have time, I will go through the mail, to present the appearance that we read that stuff, and not merely that we receive it.

All this deceit provokes backlashes of honesty. For the last twenty minutes, schr0dinger has been attempting to make trumpet noises using the (mercifully unused) applicator tip that came with a tube of hemorrhoid cream. Don't tell my mother.

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[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Empty milk jugs from the recycling bin are the best. We've started putting non-baby safe recycling in the bin behind the basement door.