Thoughts about when I lived in Buckley

Another Sunset that I took a while back. Richard wants me to write everyday but I can't do it everyday, Richard. I did have a couple of thoughts today. Last week Debbie bought a carton of eggs and somehow managed to break two of them and it reminded me of a story about Richard while we lived in Buckley. He probably doesn't remember it because he could only have been about 2 or 3. I am sure you have seen refrigerators that have a place on the door for you to put eggs. At the top of the door were twelve little indentations that held your eggs. I had a whole dozen eggs in the refrigerator. I got up one morning and I could hear one of the kids in the kitchen. I got downstairs as soon as I could just to be sure no one was doing anything they shouldn't. It was Richard and he had opened the refrigerator and was standing on a chair and when I got to the kitchen, he was dropping one egg at a time on the floor. I think there was only 3 or 4 left. What a mess there was to clean up. I don't know really why he did that. Just curiosity, I guess. Richard was always in some kind of trouble. He was so bright and always wanted to see how things worked. He loved to take things apart and many times got in trouble with his dad because of it. I think now that all that curiosity and all that taking things apart have served him well. Richard is very good at fixing things. And, after all, how can you fix things unless you see how they work, right?

Richard was one of the worst for climbing on chairs and countertops. He might remember this story because he was close to 4. It is so hard to try to keep track of kids every single minute and I really did try. Anyway, one day he had gone in the bathroom and climbed up and opened the medicine cabinet. He saw the X-Lax which was just a bar wrapped in aluminum foil where you just broke off one piece at a time. I will always remember this. Only one little square had been used. Richard came out of the bathroom and said he ate the candy bar. I was sure we did not have any candy in the bathroom so I asked him to show me where he got it and then I saw the wrapper from the X-Lax. He had eaten all of it. It scared me so bad. It was on the weekend so I called Rack's Drug Store. He laughed and said it was not going to harm him but I better get him in diapers. Richard was insulted about having to wear diapers but he needed them for about three days. He learned a lesson the hard way and for a long time he always checked with us about any candy.
My kids were all so bright and active, they really kept me on my toes. Sometimes you think your children are a lot of work when they are small but believe me it is the best of times when your children are young. For you that have little ones, enjoy them for they grow up too fast.