And We Stay Home...

Zoe and Phaedra here together:

You know something must be up if we agree to write together, right? Well……have you noticed how this blog is titled “Travels with Phaedra and Zoe”? We haven’t been doing the traveling since we got back from the Nor’easters in South Carolina in October.

Since then, the folks have gone to Cozumel and left us home alone. Oh, yeah, we had this wonderful friend, EM, come and stay with us. And her sister and mom visited us, too. That was great, but we still had to stay home alone.







P: The folks soon found out that we didn't like that any too much. One of us – it’s usually the youngest who’s the naughtiest you know – got into a tad of trouble. She ate a comforter. She ate a pillowcase and two pillows. She ate a bedspread. She unrolled the toilet paper and spread it all over the house! She enjoyed eating the waste paper basket, too.



Z: When the parents got back, somehow I got blamed for all of this. Mom thought that I couldn't have done everything and thought that maybe Phaedra had really done it and lied to them. But, they decided to test out her theory by having me stay in my den while they go out. And they go out all the time, too!!! I admit it now, I did all that stuff. I just couldn't help myself. After all, they were thousands of miles away snorkeling and swimming, and eating. All I had was time to get in trouble – no traveling for us!

P: But, how did that get back at them? I got punished, too, by having to stay in the room with you as well. That wasn't any fun. We didn't even get to go to Florida this winter. That isn't fair. I’m glad that we have a reprieve from the bedroom, now. Z, you just have to keep being good, all right?

P and Z: Oh!! They did help elect this great man to be president. That was exciting. Mom said she never thought that she’d get to see something like this happen in her life time or to have a woman be a viable candidate for president, either. She’s really proud of this country. We’d make a great team as President and Vice President, don’t you think? We are kind to others, have fun, and never cheat on our taxes.

So, now the parents are doing all of this stuff, and we still stay home. Our sister friend, Anne, took Dad to a Carolina Basketball game. We could have done a wonderful job as cheerleaders but we didn't get to go. They got to sit on the floor right next to the press! We weren't there.

They trained to be Community Emergency Response Team Members in case of a natural disaster. They got these great, green, hard hats and vests that say CERT. Maybe we’ll get green vests to wear, too, and go on search and rescue missions with them. Cool!

Last week they got trained by the National Weather Service to be Weather Spotters. How do you put spots on weather? I thought that meant rain and snow. Can they just order it up or just complain about it?

Plus, they are doing volunteering, too, like helping do taxes for low-income and elderly people for free. That’s good, I guess. They also maintain a blog for this animal organization, Bayou Rescue. It’s a really good thing that helps out in disasters nationally and locally (like a house fire). I hope someone would help us out if we ever needed it!

So, they do all of this. And, we stay at home. P and Z