Article Contributed on: 3/23/2007 11:55:12 PM
For months now - literally,
months - The Wif has been first planning for and then preparing for the arrival of a child-sized table and chair set here at the home. How she imagined these things might somehow materialize themselves here is still a mystery, (the Tooth Fairy, perhaps?)...
All the same and with an identical measure of mystery, our county caseworker appeared for her regular monthly visit and offered her/us - of all things - an undersized table and chair set. From what I can tell it's a perfectly good table and it seems to have 2 very nice chairs.
Each piece is done in something like a light oak to bare wood finish, they all seem to be in very good - like new - shape and they even fit well given our current decor. Like I'm paying attention to that...
But Mommy seems to have envisioned a tea party without a venue back when she was planning for this table and chair set, ("It's exactly what I would've bought for us," she even told me), because when the wood arrived reality set in:
I've only seen the set upright on the night it arrived. Since then the table has been lying on its top and the chairs have either been missing or lying on their side. Why?
Well, because a tea party in need of a table becomes a Multi-Level, Personal Launching Pad System once the table/chair set is accessible to the younger brothers.
And neither Sister nor Mother nor Mother Nature can change that fact. Daddy could probably turn the tide, if only he were so inclined.
Or if you could tear him away from his turn at jumping off the table..
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Chris Stone is a slightly different - hopefully better - Father and man than he was yesterday...