On our own

Monday morning Rebecca left for the U.S. to help her family out a bit.  The McLain men will be left to our devices for the next two weeks!  Practically, what this has meant so far:

• Dinners are eaten in front of the TV.  I know this is bad, but Harry Potter has been on for the last two days and dinner has been Quesadillas and Nachos (leftover taco meat from Monday).
• At all times at least 2 out of 3 toilet seats are up.  Let's face it, there's really no point in any other configuration.  Rowan has taken to finding a toilet with the seat up, yanking his pants down, doing his business, then walking out exclaiming "I didn't touch anything!" as he tries to get out of washing his hands.
• The ayi has proven to be irreplaceable: doing dishes the next morning, cleaning up around the dinner table (or couch, depending on where we ate), laundry, cleaning, etc..

Overall, I think we're doing OK.  Riley told his his teacher that he was enjoying having his dad to himself and that we have been eating donuts (isn't true, I think he either misunderstood her question or was planting the donut seed for weekend breakfasts).  Don't tell Rebecca that she's viewed as competition for dad time...