Why do I bother to clean?

Yesterday was Greyden‘s birthday. I was going to write about Greyden turning 5, so I started looking through the photos that I took yesterday. I got to this photo and had to stop. (If you can’t see the photo well, click on the photo, and a bigger version should open).

Will you LOOK at that sliding glass door!!! What did the children do to it? It looks like they were fingerpainting on it. I see handprints, I see the word “snow”, but most of what I see looks like they licked the door and spread their spit around with their fingers.

I wonder who the culprit(s) is/are. It’s high up, but the perpetrator could easily have been standing on a kitchen bench to do it. Maybe I should match their hands to it. Maybe I should call in a forensic expert to test the spit. Maybe I should just give up and get out the windex.

Better yet, I’ll have the children get out the windex. Odds are it was a team effort that produced that beautiful mural on my glass door. I’d also bet that many other windows are in the same condition. Based on previous episodes, my theory is that they all couldn’t fit at the sliding glass door, so they split into teams and spread their masterpieces on other glass surfaces.

Oh well… more about Greyden’s birthday later.

PJ