POST EASTER WARNING

When Kraut and The Brown Dot were little kids they shared a room. One day, when I was putting their clean clothes away I noticed an "off" smell in their room. I attributed it to a stray pair of dirty socks and dismissed it.

The next week, when I was putting their clothes away there was a definite odor. I should have been smart enough to realize that I only smelled it when their drawers were open but you know how mother's are--tired half the time, from being up with someone in the night, and so I just scoured the floor for any dirty clothes I had missed earlier and left it at that.

The next week, when I opened the dresser drawers, the smell nearly knocked me dead. I probably have permanent brain damage and a facial tic. I was pretty sure there was a petrified animal in the dresser. I unloaded their clothes. All of them had a faint sulfur smell. How had I not noticed that my children smelled? Their teachers must have been wondering what on earth was wrong with my stinking kids. I’m surprised I hadn’t had a phone call or two.

Finally the clothes were piled on the bed and I reached way in the back of their drawers and came up with an Easter egg—a very smelly egg, one for each boy.
I was livid. “Why are there Easter eggs in your drawers?”

“Gosh, Mom,” they said with big innocent eyes--children have the "big innocent eyes" maneuver down pat. “We just saved our favorite Easter egg.”

The stinkin’ eggs went into the trash and I scrubbed the drawers with Lysol. I washed every single piece of clothing they had and that was that.

So be warned. Do you have children who might be saving a favorite egg? Check now, not in three or five or seven weeks or however long it takes an egg to ferment. Don't get caught with a post Easter surprise. Like me.