Friday, January 18, 2019

Tape

18th Jan 2019
It's Friday Fictioneers again . Not sure what to make of the photo prompt.


 

Tape
She'd only dozed off for a few minutes, surely. She looked at her phone - 16.03. Where were the boys? It was too quiet. Rising from the sofa, heart pounding she surveyed the scene, where an hour and a half ago they'd been constructing junk models. She stepped on the beginnings of a robot, and next to it a castle in the making. Tape creatively decorated the door - a map, maybe?  But where were they. She ran up the stairs two at a time. There on her bed she found two little boys,  taped together and fast asleep. And breathing peacefully.

10 comments :

  1. Boys... they do get a mother's heart palpitating, don't they?

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    1. They sure do. And my boys loved to do junk modelling. Not that I ever fell asleep during a session . It would have spelt disaster I'm afraid

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  2. I can picture that so clearly and could imagine our two youngest doing that to each other years ago. One of the funniest things they ever did (they were always a team!) was The Peanut Butter Dance. I walked in to find them both in their birthday suits covered in peanut butter and dancing on the dining room table. :)

    If they'd had access to tape, I know they would have taped each other to something. haha

    Have a blessed weekend!

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    1. Thant is so funny Suzanne. What a lovely image you've given me. Yes, my boys, the four of them were also a team - still are in many ways

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  3. You can't blink, much less sleep, until they are in their teens, and then you are awake to make sure they get in by curfew. Great story, i remember those days.

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  4. No you certainly can't even blink, that's for sure. My boys loved junk modelling , but it was never safe to take your eyes off them, much less sleep..

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  5. 'Too quiet' is a familiar fear to most parents I suspect. I suspect that sleep was the sleep of exhaustion.

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    1. Thanks for your comment.Yes, it is a common fear of parents. No happy medium - crying, yelling, quiet...

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  6. Dear Marian,

    I raised three sons...I know about all too quiet. Love this.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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    1. Thank you Rochelle. Yes, when children are out of sight quiet for a long time, it's time to worry. I have plenty of stories, having had nine children , of dangerous, funny, and amazing moments of when they got up to things on their own.

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