What I'll Do for 10 Minutes of Alone Time

Yeah, so, it's confession time.

Occasionally, during Little Guy's mealtime or snacktime I take the opportunity to get a few things done in another room - I'll fold some clothes or pay a few bills or surf some blogs. I usually get about 5-10 minutes to myself this way.

But it's always risky - you know, leaving a toddler alone with food.

Usually it all works out.

That is, unless I leave him alone a little too long. Like today.

I guess I should have come to him the instant I heard him call my name, but I think I might have waited about 30.9 seconds too long.

And in that time, destruction....





Hey mommy, cottage cheese and applesauce make a really good medium for finger painting. Who knew?















If you can't see it in the picture, he had not only dumped out his own bowl of food, but also the entire tub of cottage cheese that lay within his reach on the table.

And that chair he's sitting on? Yeah, that belongs to the $2500 dining room table that I purchased pre-kids and that I use as our kitchen table because a) we no longer have a dining room and b) I haven't had the courage to sell it on Craigslist for the measly $250 I'm likely to get. Why isn't the chair seat covered with something to keep it clean, you ask? Yeah, hmmm, good question. (Hindsight, people, hindsight.)

And yet, as I stooped over to clean the cottage cheese out of the crevice between his stomach and his diaper, I totally felt like it was all worth getting the extra 10 minutes to myself today.

Totally worth it.