But for me, oh for ME, the luxury of shaving my legs sounds intoxicating!
And so I do, happily. I gently remind myself to shave both legs, because I know in the midst of everything it is honestly easy to forget. I am thankful for both legs. Then I hear it. “Whoosh!” Was that..? I crack the shower door, suds in face. Yes, it was the toilet. I find a boy, snack cup in hand, wedged between the sink and the toilet just flushing away! Luckily, I have a rule to keep the lid down, so I know things aren’t being washed away to sea! I beg of him to stop, and in that moment I think about how I am honestly thankful.
I am thankful that the military is so kind to offer us this on-base housing, knowing that while it is “my” house, when we leave, this toilet stays here, and I am confident it will be worn out at the rate my son is going to town on that flushing handle.
I am thankful my children will have all of these fabulous learning experiences done with before I have my own home to own. I also realize, unless I get out of the shower, that boy is unlikely to stop flushing. But I am almost done, so I hurry with the razor. I hear a noise I am not familiar with, so again I crack the door open. I find my son so proudly displaying my iPhone in his hand as he puts it on the back of the toilet lid. I guess the phone wasn’t far enough from the edge of the counter.
Oh well, what can he hurt, right?
I wash my face and I pray the anti-aging face wash isn’t a hoax because I swear I feel myself aging even as I exfoliate. Thud! Oh no- did my phone just go in the toilet? Is it on its way out to sea? As I ask myself these questions in milliseconds, I decide that maybe it’s not a bad thing if it is swimming with the fishes. I could always try that rice trick I heard about that is supposed to pull the moisture from the phone.
Or I could just let it go.
As long as I make arrangements for a phone call from my love by tomorrow, I am not sure I will miss that thing… To settle my soul and start the planning process of what needs to be done if the toilet swallowed my phone, I peek again out the shower door. I find it laying on the floor behind the toilet. Just as well- just sanitize that thing!
