Filled to the Brim

Today I am in the throes of a weeklong babysitting stint for 3 kids whom I love more than anything.  The youngest...who is 5...has yet to master the complete art of the bathroom ritual.  He doesn't quite have the "paperwork" aspect down.

In an ill-fated attempt to rectify that this evening, he used an entire roll, filling the toilet with so much paper that it peaked above the rim of the toilet.  It looked like a giant snow-cone in a big porcelain dish.  Now I realize that parents encounter this sort of thing every day.  But I'm not a parent and the only time I would ever see anything REMOTELY like this would be at the Whitney Biennial.

So the next time you get bent out of shape because facebook has a new facelift...just realize that in the blink of an eye, you could find yourself emptying a toilet bowl filled with paper mache using only two Chinese takeout chopsticks.  And that you'd be doing it for love.