An oh-look-it's-already-March pop quiz!

1. It's Monday morning. You are a stay-at-home mom who is exhausted from a busy weekend. The kids are off to school and all the animals are sleeping in their respective chairs and/or corners. What do you do?
a) Crawl back into bed while the sheets are still warm.
b) Put some coffee on and watch the news.
c) Pull on the running tights and go for a run.
d) All of the above, in that order.

2. After much concern over changes in income last year, you learn you will receive a sweet chunk o' change by way of a tax refund. How do you use it?
a) Refund? What refund? I don't know nothing about no refund.
b) Finally! Those hardwood floors I've always dreamed of!
c) The responsible thing, of course. It goes in the savings account.
d) Well, spring break is just around the corner ...

3. There is half of a dark chocolate fudge birthday cake with chocolate frosting sitting on the kitchen counter, left over from the weekend. What do you do with it?
a) Eat it.
b) Freeze it.
c) Do not, under any circumstances, lift the foil from the top of the pan to "check" how much cake is left.
d) Throw it away.

4. When you sit down in your favorite chair you see a puff of dust floating up into the air. How do you remedy this?
a) Pull the drapes to block the sunlight.
b) Drag out the upholstery brush for the vacuum.
c) Sit someplace else.
d) Turn on the ceiling fan.

5. You're feeling like your blog needs a photo today but you have no decent pictures from the weekend to post. What do you do?
a) Take a picture of the chocolate cake and post it.
b) Take a picture of the sleeping animals and post it.
c) Post a random picture that's been hanging around for a while waiting for a good reason to use it.
d) Forget the photo. Nobody cares.

The answer to #5 is C, of course. I just love this pic. 

The correct answers to the rest of the questions are relative and depend heavily on what season of life you are in. However, if you answered that you went for a run this morning and threw away the leftover birthday cake, you might have taken a wrong turn in the blogosphere when you really meant to read the daily inspirational musings of someone a bit crunchier than I. Feel free to stick around, though. I'm working on that crunchy part. I can grow my own food and hang my laundry out to dry with the best of 'em.

Pop quiz.

1. When you ask me what I am making for dinner and I tell you and you respond, "Eww, gross. I'm not eating that," what do you get for dinner?
a) a double helping of whatever I am making
b) whatever you make for yourself
c) a knuckle sandwich

2. When you get off the school bus and hand me a piece of paper that says you have been misbehaving (again) and you are not allowed to ride the bus for three days (again), what is your punishment?
a) manual labor every day after school until bedtime
b) the honor of doing every rotten chore in the house to earn the gas money for me to drive you to school and pick you up for the next three days
c) you stay home from school until you can ride the bus again

3. When you have a book report due two days from now and you aren't finished reading the book yet, what should you do?
a) think about thinking about it tomorrow
b) turn off all electronics to eliminate distraction so you can finish reading the book tonight
c) do other things that look much more important than reading, like finding something for dinner

4) When I tell you to clear off this table because everything on it belongs to you and none of it belongs on the table, how long should you wait to clear off the table?
a) forever
b) as long as possible before mom's face turns red
c) wait? why would I wait? I do as I am told when I am told to do it

5) If you drop something on the kitchen floor, what do you do?
a) pick it up
b) blame your sibling and suggest he/she should pick it up
c) walk away, perhaps stepping on or kicking the dropped item in the process

This is an open book quiz and all material has been covered in class multiple times. A perfect score will earn you the right to stay up a half hour later than usual to watch your choice of programs on television. Anywhere from one to five incorrect answers may result in mom going on strike and the house being taken over by flying monkeys. There are no retakes.