So I got to thinking..

I started thinking and well that isn't always a good thing. I have heard my woman brain is like a plate of spaghetti noodles. I actually agree with this because my thoughts wind themselves around and around and I often I loose myself completely in them. It even makes me hungry..which I am right now. Ok, let me noodle my way back to why I was thinking in the first place. So you see I am in the van taking morgan to her wednesday night church "stars" and I ask if there is anything that she can remember that we need at wal-mart. "Toothpaste!" She recalls loudly. "Watermelon" samuel adds. "ok" I reply, "watermelon toothpaste". "Nope" Morgan says "remember mom I like that kind with the stripes" "OH, right" I think to myself sliding down every noodle in my brain to come up with a a striped toothpaste called.."AQUAFRESH" I answer a little too loudly. That was a good noodle slide. "yeah! that's it" she she sounds surprise and happy "Get aqua fresh". Well can you hear the disagreement coming? don't worry this one was not too bad, I even smile this time because they are discussing this calmly. "But I do not like that kind, morgan" samuel argues with a imploring tone. "i know but I do not like watermelon" morgan says with a strong sweetness. Ok I know no matter how good this is going it will only end badly. so it's mommy to the rescue. "I have got it" I answer "I will buy one kind this time and the other kind next time, that way I do not have to spend money on two tubes" If you are thinking that is a dumb answer, well you are right because now they are going to argue about who goes first until I say "paper scissors rock for it". but that isn't why it is a dumb answer..cause here is where the I get to the "I have been thinking" part. As soon as the words were out of my mouth I started to calculate..if I buy two tubes one for each child that would be the same as buying one tube. Not initially of course the upfront cost is more but it will last twice as long a my one tube shared by both. So, assuming that the Lord doesn't have plans to take either of them out of the world any time soon, buying them each their own tube is really just as cost effective (and not an effect of having a mother who spoils her children) as buying one tube that they would have to share. Smart thinking, I am so glad I used my noodles. And if by any chance there are mathematicians reading this that can prove by some toothagrean thereom that my calculations are off and indeed I would have been better to have only purchased one tube..well what do expect from someone who compares her brain to a plate of spaghetti noodles.