Mylar bags: Not Kid Proof....

After returning from camping yesterday, I was trying to get a jump start on all the laundry, and cleaning, had to wash the Jeep, because it was filthy. Once back in side and doing all the "inside chores" which also included cooking an amazing Corn Beef Brisket with Cabbage...I realized how quiet everything in the house was...
 I have learned from experience that when you have 2 boys, and everything gets quiet...something is wrong.

I was then sitting at the computer desk, researching college grant money.. If I do enroll, I am worried about the financial burden. But it is something I really want to accomplish, and I feel that in these uncertain times, and when SHTF, having a nursing degree could really come in handy. Okay, so the house is drop dead quiet, suddenly the oldest walks in, our computer room is also where we keep our food storage. I don't hear anything at first...then it happens :

Oldest: "ummm mommy" ?
Me:  " Yes" ?
Oldest: "Look at these metal bags"

I look over and there to my wondering eyes...2 of our Mylar rice bags,  had hundreds of pin holes in them. "What The"  ???  " How in the heck did that happen"? My initial thought..was the cat...but then the  Oldest gets  a guilty look on his face, and then I see the thumb tack.. 

Me: " Did you do this" ? 
Oldest: " A little, but brother did it all first"....

FYI: In our house...our Youngest is the leader- he is the one with the brass pair- he knows NO FEAR... Senior and I will have our hands full for many years to come with him.

At that precise time, Senior walks in and  turns red, he yells for the youngest.... I proceeded to send the boys straight to their room, no toys, or leapster games. They were to only sit on their bed and think of what they did.  They cried how sorry they were, but I had to make them understand the consequences of the action...

After the revelation  hit them, they came apologizing...then asked for ice cream. All it took was Senior looking in to those big puppy eyes of theirs before he caved....  And for now, all is back right in our world...Until the house gets quiet again....   : )