I said:  “Nothing will happen if I leave them alone to take a shower.  I’ll just put on this episode of Dora, and they won’t even move from the couch.  How much trouble can they possibly get into in ten minutes?”

She said:  “All this work for a moment’s exhilaration! Mom is so mad she can’t speak, the floor is a mess, my back is killing me and I’m shut off from strawberry milk for a week…

…

… Totally worth it.”