Divine Retribution

Anyone who's a parent has been told at least a million times that your kids will pay you back for the things you did to your parents. I guess it's the curse that keeps on cursing, and whether it's a true curse or just a simple combination of normal kid things and genetic tendencies, so far it's been pretty steady around here. Evan acts so much like Andy, Alli is very much like me, and Drew seems to be a good combination of both of us. When I was a kid, my sisters and I were bestest friends, slept together every night, and fought like cats and dogs, and my kids all do the very same things. One thing I've noticed that I've found funny is that when we were really little, we loved to sit in mom's laundry baskets. I don't know what the excitement is -- it's probably similar to the excitement of a big box. But, she was always yelling at us to get out of her laundry baskets, and her laundry baskets never lasted long because we were always sitting in them and breaking them. As a parent, I am super protective of my laundry basket for that reason. I only have one, and when it's not full of laundry (which is most of the time) it sits on a super high shelf that the kids can't reach. Unfortunately, because of that curse, the kids have found that our little tiny storage ottoman works just as well. I am forever telling them to get out of the ottoman. So far it seems to be a bit more sturdy than a laundry basket, but it's one of the favorite places to sit and watch TV for some strange reason!