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Every morning I wake up thinking, "Lord, I don't have quite enough to do today. Will you please find some way for me to occupy my day?" And the Lord always abides. Today was no exception.

The morning moved along as a typical Tuesday would: breakfast, coffee, get us dressed, start some laundry, light chores, go on a walk with Lorena, reutrn home for lunch, etc. Well, this evening Jack and I will be going to Santa Barbara to watch Rob compete in the bocce semi-finals at Arnoldi's. Seeing how it is a bath night, I decided to give Jack his bath after lunch instead. He was having a grand time until...there in the tub beside him was--a poo. In fact, a few! DRATS! Well, not the end of the world, after all, it does happen. I was at least mightily grateful not to be in the tub with him this time. So I lifted him out onto the tile, scooped out the offending objects, drained the water, moved the toys to the sink for a nice bleach soak, and grabbed the Soft Soap and a scouring pad. As I was climbing into the tub to do some toxic clean-up, I notice that Jack had opened the bathroom door and was standing in the hall, peeing on the hard wood floors. Well, I'd hate for him to slip in that, so I got a towel, mopped it up, and resumed haz-mat duties in the tub. At this point, I was not concerned about him running around the house without a diaper because, frankly, what more could he do? Funny you should ask! He walked back into the bathroom about two minutes later carrying a flashlight covered in poo (no dangling participle, both he and the flashlight were covered in poo). Knowing I had already flushed the poo down the toilet, I was immediately horrified to think that I would spend the afternoon playing "Find the Other Poo". Since the flashlight is usually beside my nightstand, I decided to start there. Low and behold, a lone poo was waiting there, along with a bit more pee, inches from my brand new laptop. Again, I was mightily grateful, it wasn't ON my brand new laptop. Well folks, I ran a new tub, finished Jack's bath (because by then he REALLY needed one) and put him down for a nap. After starting one more load of laundry and making friends with Resolve carpet cleaner, I had to write this blog. I know when he is off to college one day and I sit in my empty nest, this will be one of those memories I cherish. Right now, not so much.