Today at 5:30 I woke up to a monotone voice saying "Mother, can I play Poptropica on the computer". If you have not heard that monotone voice in person it is none other than Edwin with his proper terms (Mother), I told him yes but to stay quiet...everyone is sleeping. He then came back to me and asked if he could have 9 oranges. The first thing I asked is why in the world would you need 9 oranges? Are you making a cannon? Pretending your Santa and filling stockings? He simply stated he needed fresh squeezed orange juice. I told him that there is a gallon of OJ in the fridge and stay the heck away from the oranges...and of course to be quiet. After hearing that he opened the juice which was no small feat, he finally left me alone to doze off. Then I heard Melody come down the stairs screaming and I mean screaming why no one had got her up for breakfast! I told her it was only 6, she has missed nothing. She pointed out that Edwin already had juice...I told her to watch TV in her room. 10 minutes later I hear her screaming again because she can't find the remote and she HAS to see Dora. I realize that I have lost yet another Saturday of sleeping in and open my eyes to see a banana about 2 inches from my eyes. It was Tobey, staring at me wanting it opened. I am not sure how long that boy stood there with a banana in my face....it could have been 5 minutes. So after collecting myself and realizing that I was not about to be killed with a banana, I turned on the living room TV while Tobey ate. I told Eddie I was way out numbered and it was time for him to get up.
Now Eddie stayed up late watching some Batman movie, and because he doesn't think ahead (I love the man though) he is cranky after having 5 hours of sleep. He goes in and starts cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and guess who comes down? Melody wanting to know why Tobey is eating a banana and she hasn't been told. Edwin then comes in the living room doing jumping jacks and asked Eddie if he knows Major Xavier (Edwin is a spy in his mind) Eddie says no that he doesn't know him. Edwin says that Major Xavier hates him.
Back to Melody who thinks she is getting the raw end of the deal as far as breakfast goes in the pantry and grabs a back of Ritz crackers and brings them in the dining room. Edwin and Olivia then get in a fight with Melody because she is eating way too many crackers. Now mind you, the smell of cinnamon is wafting through the house...breakfast is coming. I break up the fight only to see that Melody only has 3 crackers in her hand...she is not eating the whole box! No idea why there is even a fight.
Emily then feels the need to be a commentator and tells me that Melody is over the cracker incident and then like a miracle a Christmas special comes on and the whole house goes quiet! They are eating and watching Dr. Seuss...life is good! Eddie has dozed off with 3 kids sitting on him and it is my Norman Rockwell moment.
Until, the teenager (Lena) who has somehow slept through this morning finds out that all the cinnamon rolls are gone and then it will be WW III!
So it is 9:17 and that my friends is Saturday morning with the Holstein's. I want to go back to bed!
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