Mr. Mischief

I recently took out some books from the library for Justice from the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves – namely, Mr. Noisy, Mr. Messy, and Mr. Mischief.  These choices were no accident, as I believe they all describe my son quite well, but today he was in fine mischievous form!  Whenever I go to put Rayah down for her nap, I am taking a risk by leaving Justice unsupervised for those 5 minutes and today he decided to have some fun with the flour bin.  This is actually not the first time this has happened, so maybe this is a case of, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me!”  But, suffice it to say that I was extremely tempted to throw an epic temper tantrum when I came upon this mess!  It sure didn’t help the situation that when you vacuum up flour with a small central-vac hose that for some reason it causes you to get dozens of static electric shocks!  Interestingly enough, Justice seemed to be quite aware that what he did was wrong, because when I went to reprimand him, he suggested that he get a “spanking on his hand” and “go to his room”.  I agreed.

As Mr. Mischief would say, “Oh, what a beautiful piece of perfect mischief!”