August 27

My kids have really short arms.

I'm grateful for their enthusiasm at tackling the washing of both the car and truck this evening, though I know it was really the prospect of a water fight that got them excited. They gamely went about it, with soaps and rags and plenty of water.

It wasn't until everything dried off that I noticed the clean part of the car only extended about a foot in on each side and that I'd been left with a racing stripe fashioned from the leftover dirt.