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<\/a>Dear Mr.\/Ms. Scientist Who Developed Pretend Wood Floors,<\/p>\nThank You.<\/p>\n
You are a genius.<\/p>\n
You must have kids.<\/p>\n
You see, I have a parent’s internal timer that lets me know when my kids have been quiet too long. There is a natural tension about it, of coarse, because the quiet is so sweet and so precious and I don’t want it to end. So maybe I was being too hopeful or in denial, because the other day the sweet and precious quiet was a cover for my two and three-year-old girls being under the office desk writing with permanent marker on the pretend hard wood floors.<\/p>\n
Doesn’t that dark, thick, black ink show up well on the light floor?<\/p>\n
Oh, my.<\/p>\n
I want to patent the phrase “Only On Paper” and sell t-shirts.<\/p>\n
I want to build a row of drawers with locks about chest high all over the house.<\/p>\n
But, I took some every day cleaner and a paper towel and could hardly believe my eyes…![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-EgVamKACOLU\/TWCsRpfze5I\/AAAAAAAABmY\/DrbvWCel2ms\/s288\/IMG_0840.jpg\" "\\"Austin")
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Well, either the Mr.\/Ms. Scientist Who Developed Pretend Wood Floors is a genius or the Mr.\/Ms. Scientist who Developed the Permanent Marker has been slacking off lately, but either way it turned out all right for me. And, for the smarty-pants who might remember my story about the toothpaste facials<\/a> from not too long ago, which also happened on my watch, all I can say is that I do the best I can.<\/p>\n Sometimes with a little help from Mr.\/Ms. Scientist.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am grateful for this post, just as I am all of my lovely guests!! Thanks so much. —– Dear Mr.\/Ms. Scientist Who Developed Pretend Wood Floors, Thank You. You are a genius. You must have kids. You see, I have a parent’s internal timer that lets me know when my kids have been quiet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-guesting","7":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-Z0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCarol Ramsey lives in Austin, Texas, is married and has three girls, fourteen, three and two-years old. She is a software project manager and writes at GrowingUpAustin.com<\/a> and LittleKidsHike.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n