tomatoes

So yesterday, I finally pulled up my garden and found a huge batch of perfectly ripe, protected-from-the-frost tomatoes.  Yay!  But unfortunately my kids also discovered them.  As I was pulling out the 8ft plants, green and red tomatoes were falling everywhere.  So what do little boys do with them?  Exactly.  Throw them, squish them, put them on sticks, bounce them on the trampoline.  So today, when I looked out and saw what a mess my patio was after I just cleaned the yard, I told Cody to figure out a way to clean up his mess (because of course he is the main culprit).  So I check back a few minutes later and he is out their scooping them up with the kids snow shovel and I thought, "wow, what a good kid."  But here's how it went down after that...

Cody - "Mom, I can't do this, it's going to make me throw up."
Mom - "Too bad, you shouldn't have made such a mess."

And since I promised myself I would never make my kids clean up their own vomit - I guess the joke's on me.  Maybe I should have just cleaned up the tomatoes.