Thursday, April 23, 2009

Dirty little secret...

Racing against the footsteps that approached the front door, she shoved the bulky sleeping bag into the closet, its contents oozing down each shelf, puddling onto the floor. She knew that she should clean it up, but there wasn't time. Slamming the doors shut she ran downstairs to greet her guests.

"Let's visit down here." She said coolly, trying to protect her secret. But she forgot about the children. The children whose voracious appetites for moving, jumping and exploring had them up the stairs only moments later, running through each room, examining every corner.

Eyes fixed on the closet, her heart dropped with the questions, "What's this room? Is this the bathroom?"

"No, no." She quickly answered. "That's just a closet. Nothing to see in there."

At night's end, when her last guest had departed, she wiped her brow and smiled. Her secret was safe, prosecution avoided.

UNTIL...

Until the day that her very own children betrayed her by revealing the contents of her closet on YouTube, claiming that they hadn't noticed that it was opened in the backdrop of their video.

Her secret exposed, in all of its oozing, dripping glory, she (after reprimanding her children for their thoughtlessness) said, "What the heck", snapped a picture, and posted it on her blog for all to see.


Ain't it purty?!
(organizing my closets is part of my fabulous by forty quest. Hmmm, three and a half months to go, think I'll make it?)

3 comments:

Stoddard Family said...

I haven't had a chance to sit and look at blogs for awhile. I forgot how happy it makes me to read about people who feel like I do about certain things. Thank you for writing such a fun and inspirational blog. You and Cjane are my favorite ones.

4boyzmdmom said...

Hee, hee, hee! We all have dirty secrets (don't go in my basement)! I need to post a photo of my coat closet right now...shoes to the ceiling! We removed the shoe holder so we could paint the door.... If I ever build a house, it is going to have a mudroom!

MaryRC said...

oh my garage could get me a spot on one of those horrible t.v. show that expose a persons dirty little secret, or possibly Oprah! it gets that bad.. the illusion is not totally dead, not everyone watches youtube...