For local kids, it’s the last week of summer. Moms across the county have been crossing off the days since June. They’ve been having Craft Fun with Kids for three months.
If Mom has to glitter glue one more popsicle stick, everyone
will die.
The week before school starts, ordinary Moms use their
superpowers to supply their kids with every item necessary to get them out of
the living room and into the classroom where they can’t spread peanut butter on
the dog.
Reach for the wrong thing at WalMart and it’s Clash of the
Titans. Perseus tries to wrestle the last My Little Pony lunchbox with
Streamers and Rainbows from the minions of the underworld.
Things aren’t looking good for Perseus.
My boys are long past the Dog Days of Nothing To Do, but I
still can’t think of ninety days of Pokemon reruns without shivering a little. Then
there was craft day. Son One made Son Two into a cardboard box robot. I
caught him just before he punched out the eye holes.
With his fist.
The Furies couldn’t have kept me from that last pack of
notebook paper.
So even though the Captain needs a new lunchbox, he can wait
another week or two. But I may still go to Wal-Mart.
And pick up some protective gear for the teacher.
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