Of coin tosses and bleeding

So- Quite the day here. . .most of it pretty amazing:)

The battle continues between Cocoa and Butter over how BEST to avoid even the simplest chores. . .today added a very inventive, and, well, totally HILARIOUS chapter to the Neverending Story of "How to Invest More Time and Energy Into Avoiding Your Chores Than It Would Take To Actually Do Them, Without Really Trying"

So- Butter has the living room, Cocoa her room. . .vested interests the both of them, because they are both only going to get their grail IF both complete the quest and if both complete it well. . .So saith Mauron. . .One Mom to Rule them ALL. . .ummm welll, ok

So, they decide, in TRUE form of the How to Invest guidelines, to work together on their tasks, so each will have help in getting theirs done and it will be so much more fun to work together.

Yes, as with so much in the world, in THEORY, this is maternal manna, sent right from G-d. . .not to mention sociologically geektastic. . .

BUT (you knew that was coming, didn't you? aww was trying to be subtle), it did not work out that way. . .but watching it play out was amazing, I will try to do it justice-

After arguing for about an hour about which place they should clean first, it was decided that the Omnipotent Coin Toss would decide the room. With this trusty and trusted method of impartially decided sticky situations with 50% odds for both. . .what could possibly go wrong. . .

Well, lots actually

First- Cocoa is convinced that the coin has 2 tails, since she lost EVERY.SINGLE.TOSS. and was not happy. . .and accused the coin, yes the coin, of cheating.

After I convinced her that it was not cheating and explained to her the fundamentals of probability and chance, I let them get back to negotiations. . .battle. . .negotiations. . .until there was a stalemate to end all stalemates, and the Peacekeeper was called. . .so I began to hear the demands of both parties, which were, mutually exclusive and irreconcilable. . .so I offered on more option before all out warfare- we go back to the coin toss, use a different coin, and they decided Cocoa would be tails. . .

It was heads. . .sigh

However, after a short pouting/whining/puppy dog eyes session, she agreed to go to Butter's task first. . .and to their credit, they did an amazing job:)

Currently, they are resting from their epic light sabre battle. . .which got so EPIC I had to implant paramedic droids into both of them to deal with the massive injuries. . .

On the health front, I had a treatment yesterday afternoon, and by the early morning was panicking from the fact that I had a massive blood clot blow out, wow, and looked WAY worse that it was but wow-both older boys gone to friends, neither on answering their phones. . .and me alone with the kids. . .I managed, but wow.

We are going out and about all day tomorrow- off to see the world:)