The Mother

I am a mother. The mother of an Astronaut, Explorer, Wizard, Artist, Time Traveler, and today a Knight. I am the mother of only three children the oldest being a sixteen year old girl named Blaire, a baby girl named Karen, and a five year old boy named David. I am the mother of a boy with an amazing imagination, and serious sense of trouble.

At this moment I had just sent David to his room for a time out after her went into his older sister's room without knocking. I told him not to move for five minutes then her could play again. I set the timer so that I would know when his time was up. About thirty seconds left I thought to myself as I put the last of the clothes in the red front load washing machine and pressed the start button at the top. I walked downstairs just as the timer beeped.

"David you can come out now." I called up to his room. I heard some noise and then his door open. I walked over to my pot of stew that I was making for dinner and gave it a stir. I look over to Karen who is sitting quietly in her play pen in a corner of the kitchen. She will probably get hungry soon so I decide to make a bottle of milk for her. I hear a racket upstairs and figure it is just David playing.

Moments later after I finished making the milk I leaned over my pot of stew and heard David walk in.

"Let her go evil witch!" He exclaims, I decide I will play along. I laugh and stand up all the way to look down at him. He is wearing one of his father's suit coats as a suit of armor I was guessing, he had a stick for a sword, and one of the lids to a pot for a shield. What made me laugh though was the fact that he had one of Blaire's gray bikini tops tied around his head as a helmet. Guess that was what he went into her room for.

"Bubble bubble toil and trouble." I say as I stir my pot of stew. His eyes open wide as he looks at me. Then Karen starts to cry in her play pen. Yep I was right she is hungry. I grab the bottle from behind me and walk over to her. I pick her up and give her the bottle full of milk.

"Here this will make it all better,"I say as she starts to drink and very quickly she falls asleep.

"No do not drink it! It is poison meant to kill you." David yells but she already drank it all and fell back asleep. I place her back in the play pen and turn to David.

"She is not dead, just sleeping." I say laughing, yeah sleeping a lot of princess in fairy tales do that right? Of course sleeping beauty, Snow White, the princess and the pea.....

David turns around and walks over to the freezer her reaches for the handle and finally grabs it turning to call me over. I walk over to him and he laughs.

"You should have stayed where you were because now I have the power to freeze you!" He says as he yanks on the door to the freezer opening it. The very light breeze of cool air hits me and I pretend to be frozen as he runs over to his sister.

"Princess please wake up," He says. "Please princess!"

I hear her make a noise and him go to run and grab the grey step-stool we have in the kitchen. He picks her up and runs past me to the front yard where I can hear his father pulling up in his car. I close the freezer door as I hear David exclaim my husband,

"My king I have your daughter. I saved her from the evil witch!" I laugh and stir the pot once more and go to check on my laundry. I walk up the stairs holding onto the railing with the pillars. I walk down the hallway toward David's room and see a pile of gold and gray football jerseys on the floor. They were dirty from the match David was in last week he was the goalie and did rather well for a five year old.

The pile of clothes on the floor was nothing though as I turned to look at the washing machine and dryer. Both were turned off and the washing machine had its door open with a puddle of clothes and water on the floor. I screamed and Blaire opened the door to her bedroom taking her headphones out of her ears.

"Woah mum what did you do?" She asked.

"I did not do this did you not even hear when this was happening?" I asked her in return. She shook her hear and closed her bedroom door just as my husband Alexander came running up the stairs holding Karen. I started to pick up the clothes as he explained how David slayed a dragon.

"We can't punish him for having a good imagination." My husband explained as I mopped. He was right plus it was all cleaned up now. I went back down stairs and finished making dinner which I then called the family to. David came riding in on his little stick horse still wearing all the silly clothes. He sat at the table and told me of his adventures that day. Blaire walked in and screamed.

"Why is Davie wearing my bikini top on his head?"

"Because," David explained, "I am a brave knight named Sir David John Tennant. My mates call me Davie though. I live in Paisley, Scotland and I am a hero to my people. And this," He indicates the bikini top, "is my helmet."

The End