I’m a guilty mom, slightly. In my home, a single granola bar is worth about 10 minutes. Ten minutes of what? Ten minutes of near quiet. One bar of prepackaged temporary babysitter will get mommy 10 minutes of sprinting trips up and down the stairs to switch laundry, wipe down a counter, and scoop up that pile of collected miscellaneous items and get them off to their somewhat proper locations.
Today, a single granola bar got meat thawing for dinner, laundry in, and the downstairs diaper supply restocked. The downside, of course, to the 10 minute granola bar, is completing the consumption of said granola bar. This often results in sticky fingers, crumbs on the floor, and if mommy is not fast enough, sticky walls, chairs, door knobs, noses, shoes, cars, favorite stuffed items, couches, babies…you get the idea. Therefore, the lesson here folks is do not choose a chore lasting more than 10 minutes. Like cleaning out the closet. Which results not only in the all of the aforementioned stickiness, but also the distribution of coloring papers, crayons, googly eyes, dusters, and vacuum parts throughout the home. At this point another 10 minute granola bar, plus a Veggie Tales DVD must be employed to achieve the clean-up process.
Underneath the Big Top 