Oh, What the Imagination Can Do!

So, I was upstairs one evening--Robert was at work, and I was probably reading--and the boys yell down at me to come and see their invention. It was "the coolest thing ever!" and I had to hurry. So I came downstairs, and this is what I found:

I had a couple of different thoughts run through my head--first of all, the logical, mothering, pinch your pennies sort of person that I am thought: that was a lot of plastic cups, that could have been used but were now covered in carpet fuzz and dog hair. The struggling to maintain a clean house part of me thought: I so do not want to have the left over mess when they are through. Luckily, the fun part of me, and the proud Mama won out with: That is so cool!! So, I took about eight pictures and promised that we'd show their dad--little did they know that I'd post it for all to see ;-) I had a couple of very nice, posed pictures, but I had to post the one that shows the true side of my boys--notice the face on Nathan, and the tatoo on Jacob's neck--of all the places to stick a tatoo!

They promised that they would clean it up and proceeded to show me how quickly it could be done:

It probably helped that it was fun, too.

And before I knew it, my living room was back to the somewhat neat, somewhat cluttered area that I tolerate during the school year. Gotta love those boys!