Trapped in the Kitchen

Do you ever feel that you are trapped in the kitchen? We spend so much time in the kitchen, cooking, cleaning the dishes, coloring pictures and doing other projects with our kids, that sometimes it seems like we spend all day there. Sometimes we just need a break. Today Ben and Maddie decided that we weren't spending enough time in the kitchen. While I was preparing dinner and Angie was feeding Jacob, Ben and Maddie gathered anything soft (blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, etc) they could find in the house and piled them to strategically block both exits from the kitchen. They didn't want to let us out.

When I asked Ben what they were up to, he simply stated, "We are trapping you." When I probed a bit more he told me that the living room was a construction place and that a "Lofty" (construction crane) was working in the living room to build our house. Maddie stated that we bumped our heads--she must have meant that she was trying to protect us from bumping our heads in the construction area. Anyway, we are now physically trapped in the kitchen and do not know when we will be able to leave. If you don't see us in the next few days, maybe you can stop by to convince our captors to let us out.