www.siegestones.com<\/a>), spread them out on the table and counted them.<\/p>\nIt worked out pretty well, until the game had been going for a little while.<\/p>\n
I was hiding, and they were having a terrible time looking for me. In fact, after five minutes or so, they hadn’t even made their way into the room where I was hiding. I called out “Where’s Daddy?” a couple of times, and heard “where are you?” echo back.<\/p>\n
But still no kids.<\/p>\n
The minutes dragged by, with me sporadically giving my “Where’s Daddy?” call and them not showing up.<\/p>\n
Finally, after about ten minutes of hiding, I went out to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
They had made a long line out of the stones and were counting them. They looked up at me as I walked in, “Oh, hi Daddy. We were just counting stones.”<\/p>\n
I’d been ditched by my own kids. <\/p>\n
Even worse was that J was puttering around in the kitchen, and she hadn’t said anything either. All three of them were quite content to have me hiding myself under a bed while they went about their business.<\/p>\n
Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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