Growing Up Me

I have to tell you that Gremlins are real!  They are listed as imaginary creatures or invisible creatures in the dictionary.  Here are the definitions from Answers.com:

1. An imaginary gnomelike creature to whom mechanical problems, especially in aircraft, are attributed.
2. A maker of mischief.

The second one defines my children because a Gremlin is termed as a maker of mischielf.   Especially, my youngest.  I believe once they turn two they are swapped with a gremlin for a year.  If the gremlins really like them then you are stuck with a gremlin for life.  This leads me to why I think they should add a third definition:

3. A two year old child in the period of life known as the terrible twos.

My children are not responsible for all of the mischief in my home.  I have some unexplained electrical and mechanical disturbances as well.  My stove has went on the fritz.  The oven quit working on the stove.  Two months later, a bottle of cleaner fell over on the stove top causing the oven to magically start working again but the control panel then quit so I could not turn it back off.  I cut the power off at the breaker box and took the stove apart.  I got all of the cleaner out of it and put it back to together.  I did not do anything to it other than that.  The oven then would not work but I had the control panel back along with the exhaust fan that will not stop now.  This comes after two coffee makers dying along with our microwave.  Our dryer is now acting up.  Not to be outdone the washing machine is also making funny noises.  We have had two desktop computers, two laptops, a printer and a fax machine to all crash.  We have also had two cellphones to break.  Several flashlights have broken while in the drawer.  This is not to mention all of the items we have had to just disappear!  Curiously, being in the Halloween spirit, I looked up the definition and history of Gremlins.  The following is also from Answers.com:

English Folklore: gremlins

A subspecies of goblin which evolved early in the 20th century, probably during the First World War; certainly their existence was acknowledged (with dismay) by members of the RAF during the 1920s. They are reported to be anything from six inches to two feet in height, greenish or grey, sometimes with horns or hairy ears, and wearing a wide variety of colourful and eccentric clothing. Their original speciality was causing otherwise inexplicable malfunctions in the engines, electrical circuits, and other operational parts of aircraft, drinking up petrol, and tampering with landing strips on airfields. They have since diversified, and apply their expertise to virtually any type of machinery, the more complex the better; one group has become skilled in producing misprints. They often laugh uproariously at the success of their activities, a trait which may indicate kinship to Puck and Robin Goodfellow.

From their description of a gremlin, I could see how a small child could be confused with a gremlin.  Yesterday, Augusta definitely fit the description.  She wanted to dress herself and insisted quite loudly in her terrible two manner.  Well, I pick my battles and since we were not going anywhere, I chose not to turn this into one.  I left her wear the green checkered shorts with her orange flowered night shirt, one green sock and one red one, and of curse her shoes which were pink and purple.  I did win the battle with her hair putting it up in pigtails which did kinda look like hairy ears on top of her head.  She then topped off her outfit by coloring herself green with a marker and adding a baby doll pacifier still attached to the doll outfit as an accessory.  Hence, why I believe they swap our children for Gremlins maybe all the way through the “Why Momma?” stage so they can learn everything that they can about how our new appliances work.  So they can then turn our already hectic lives into appliance mishap hell.

Now that I have got some of my computer issues cleared up, I have to say that I am glad I am back.  I have missed Today and all the wonderful people here.

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