Out the Window

The other night we got to have a little chat to our good pals and learned that their recent success as parents is attributed to nonetheless than McDonalds. This left us with a hankering for a little Micky Ds ourselves, so we snuck away during school hours and partook. It was during this feed that we were discussing parenting and how sometimes it really is just a matter of finding the kids currency.
We learned this when one of our kids could care less about being put in "time out" but putting their beloved stuffed friend in time out was enough to evoke tears and begging. Okay, so sometimes in our weak moments as parents the "time out" was to take place outside. This is where our NZ windows came in handy. Nothing stopped the behaviour like dangling a bunny out the window by one ear. Like I said-weak moments.
Mark and I then had a good laugh (could have been the coca-cola) as we reminisced about how much stuff we threw out of our windows. We threw everything out of them. I don't mean car windows because we are not litterbergs (I am strongly opposed to that) rather I meant that anything in the house that was deemed "biodegradable" was thrown out the window. I remember a conversation with my sister in which I was telling her how not having screens in the windows was actually a benefit. Mosquitoes were never an issue, the flies never lasted long and proved to be free food for the frog, and most importantly it was just so handy to be able to throw things out the window. "Oh, what would you need to throw out the window?" was her reply. I paused. "I don't really know, it just seems like it is a great feature to have because we use it all the time. I can't think of anything right now but at least once or twice a day something is going out the window."
Now that we are responsible homeowners-with fly screens we have really cleaned up our act and we are ashamed at ourselves for our behaviour. Sorry friends that had to visit us in our house encircled with "biodegradables" we can see how truly terrible that was and know that when you come to visit us now you will no longer have to stare at rotting lettuce or burnt caramels from the Christmas prior.