One night at the beginning of January, the kids were playing downstairs and decided to take some styrofoam and break it up into the tiniest balls they could. Jack was the ringleader of this endeavor, and he did a bang-up job.
I learned several things from this experience.
1. I don't handle messes of incredible size very well.
2. Ben is level-headed enough to Google solutions, since the vacuum got overheated after a short period of vacuuming and the static-cling of the styrofoam balls made clean-up nearly impossible.
3. Keep packing tape on hand. That was the only way we could clean it all up.
4. Your kids might surprise you with their willingness to help.
5. If your entire family pitches in, you can have the mess cleaned up in about 2 hours
6. You will probably continue to see little tiny styrofoam balls scattered throughout the house for weeks after The Incident. Just deal with it.
Ugh!!! Hope they learned a valuable lesson!
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