Mystery Madness

So i promise to get to christmas and the cruise...but a good mystery trumps a family vacation any day, wouldn't you say?

Cause there has been a mystery in our house for sometime now. Get ready for it. . . . . . . .are you ready?

Here it is: the spoons are missing

This was my silverware drawer last month....missing said spoons. So i look in the dishwasher, AND the sink. How many spoons do i find, you ask? only 3!

3 spoons!!! when there should be at least 12...so what do you do when the spoon supply is dangerously low? you take your confuzled mind to IKEA and buy 8 more spoons to replenish the supply. but somehow there are still not enough spoons to go around. somehow, the spoon shortage continues. the spoons are M.I.A.

this is what the silverware drawer looked like this morning when i went to give alec a bowl of cereal:

So i look in the sink...and the dishwasher. I find 4 spoons----TOTAL! and i think to myself..."self, didn't you just buy 8 spoons at IKEA to add to the 3 we had, for a total of 11 spoons? why are there only 4 to be found?"

i had no answer. i was confounded.

so i washed one of the 4 spoons and gave alec his bowl of cereal. 10 minutes later i hear him put his bowl in the sink and i go over to wash off the spoon he used so there will be at least ONE clean spoon in the drawer.

but there is no spoon in his bowl.

and there is no spoon in the sink.

so i ask the child: "Child, where is the spoon you used?"

he answers: "it's there!"

and being the good detective that i am , i say: "no--it's not, come show me!"

so he comes over and opens the door under the sink.....where we keep the garbage

and he says: "see--right there!"

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he is right.

it IS there.

in the garbage.

he has been throwing away our spoons just like he does when we're having ice cream at Cold Stone or Dairy Queen.

but really, if you know this child of mine, does this remotely surprise you?

me neither.

i will not relay the conversation that followed this discovery...it's classified.

i will just say: MYSTERY SOLVED