So here's a story to help you appreciate your own kids a little better!
A few weeks ago, earlier in the week, the boys were outside playing and asked Chad if they could fill up the window well of his office with water. I think they wanted something like a little pond. So Chad, of course, told them that would fill the house with water and so... NO!
Fast forward to that Friday when I was helping B get a costume ready for a Mutual activity that night. I heard some giggling in Chad's office when I went by, but was distracted and didn't investigate. (I've learned a lesson!) About 20 minutes later (or so), B came up stairs and said something about something. Chad went down to look, thinking she was talking about a spider. Seconds later he came rushing upstairs and said there was a flood downstairs as he slipped (literally) to the back door to turn off the hose.
There was an inch of water on some parts of Chad's office floor and two feet of water still waiting to come in from the window well. All of our towels and most of our blankets went downstairs to try to absorb the mess. It was already halfway down the hall and some of it was heading towards a drain in the water heater room (too bad Chad's office didn't have a drain!). Chad had quite a bit of stuff on his floor (you already know this if you know much about Chad) and the window is directly over the baseboard heater. The power strip for all of the computer/printers/phone, etc was sitting in water. It's a miracle he wasn't electrocuted!
So meanwhile, the boys have gone off to play at the neighbor's house and I send for them pretty quickly. They really were shocked to see what their trick had done, but it didn't keep us from sending them to their room for the rest of the night. I still had to get dinner on the table, get B to the church for a practice, rent a carpet shampooer from the grocery store, drive to Idaho Falls to get some carpet blowers and take the girls with me to the church to the Mutual variety show they were doing for the ward. Poor Chad stayed home and worked on his office. A neighbor lent us 3 box fans and we had 2 stand fans in addition to the carpet blowers. We were almost lulled to sleep by the noise coming through the floor to our bedroom upstairs. Poor B must have lost some hearing that night!
The boys were grounded from friends, bicycles, and playing in the front yard for a week. It was a hard lesson for everyone! A couple of days later, I went into Chad's office and noticed how clean the floor was. I told him we should lift the boys' grounding and thank them for the nice clean office!
Just tonight (two weeks later) Chad is finally replacing the last pieces of office equipment. We just hope that there isn't any mold in the walls.
What's the worst thing your kids have ever done? :)
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