A Means To an End

So, tonight we're trying to finish up chores before bed and the usual noise level is raised a bit, so tuning in my ears I hear this:
"Yeah huh, Bean!  It is too red!"
"Noooooooo! Mr. Man it's black.  I know 'cause I saw it last time!"
"I did too! It's red! You're wrong!"
So I had to intervene.  You should know that my older two children, just 22months apart, seem to love to argue about incredibly pointless subjects.  The more pointless the better, I believe its part of their secret; never talked about; invisible plan to drive me absolutely crazy before my 35th birthday. Which isn't too far off, and that would explain the seemingly doubled effort lately.  Anyway I asked my daughter what it was they were fighting about, and trying hard not to roll my eyes, I am told that she 'knows that Sean's DS is black, and my brother is wrong.' just before he blurted out with full force 'It's red and she's wrong!'.  Then I remembered that Miss L would know so I call her and what does she say?  Black, but I think he has a red one he brought over once.  Leave it to my son to only remember the one in the color he likes best, and being the most stubborn arguer in all of history to make his point.  So then he tells me that Miss. L must be mistaken!  Well, try as I might the eye roll came out and I told him they were both right.  To redirect the problem I had to take a weapon out o the mom arsenal: "Ice cream anyone?"  I got three yeses, one emphatic yes from the toddler in the comfy chair who's been completely glued to the movie through out this whole debacle until the mention of her favorite treat comes out.  Since the day she could say 'Keem!' I've never heard the end of it.  But tomorrow the older two go to school and me and the noodle will be in peace for a few hours. I'm hoping to work on my newest "let's see if I can do it" projects: Wine Bottle Cork necklaces!  I drew up some ideas for making the pendents and am going to try them when the noodles takes her nap since i have to use things like dremil bits, drill bits, and a fine toothed saw.  But if everything  comes out alright, I should be posting a picture of the finished products. I have a lot of these project pop up in my mind an a shallow folder has been filing with them for years now and is near to bursting with things I want to try or make. And I may even get to some bottle work.  I have a Generation Green G2 Glass cutter for bottles and saw some great ideas on how to cut and shape the pieces to make all kinds of beautiful things.  But until then I am going to bed to grab a few extra hours of sleep for the day ahead of me.