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I sometimes write a list of the things that need to get done on days when the kids are home.  One such day had things like "clean rooms," "practice," and "library" on it.  Luke had wanted to make granola bars for a while, so I put "granola bars" down as the last item. 

I went back to look at the list a little later and saw "granola bears" as the last item.  "Wow," I thought to myself, "I must have been really distracted to write that!  How funny of me!" I laughed.

You all probably know what happened before I did.  Every once in a while I would go back and look at the list and laugh at the funny item, and I started noticing that the "ears" in "granola bears" was written in a slightly different handwriting.  Eleanor did confess to changing the list, but she says that she only did it because the original looked so much like "bears" instead of "bars."

I enjoyed the joke, but really I'm not sure what I'll do when all the kids start changing the list on me---and I can easily imagine what will happen to items like "practice" and "clean rooms."  Maybe I need to hide the dry erase pens...

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