Bob Marley made my daughter go to school without pants on!

Last night I tried Experiment #2 with Bob Marley's "Mellow Tea". Heard of it? It's like the exact opposite of Red Bull, packed with stuff like Mellatonin and Chamomile to help make you "Super Chill Mon". It is currently available at our local Grocery Outlet at the super-bargain price of 3 bottles for $1.

I bought a few dollars worth, figuring it couldn't *actually* be as intoxicating as the gright green-n-yellow pot leaf on the bottle would have the average consumer believe.

I drank two bottles, rapid-fire because I was very thirsty.

I got knocked on my butt.

khristle then pointed out to me the warning on the bottle which said very bluntly to not drink more than two bottles in a single day, and to only drink those bottles SEVERAL HOURS apart from each other. Do not operate heavy machinery. May cause drowsiness. Do not decide to grow your hair our for some "wicked dredds". Do not end every sentence with "Mon". Do not browse the Amazon.com Reggae Downloads section; may cause debit card depletion.

I slept a lot that day.

So last night I tried Experiment #2: It was 6:30 at night, I decided to drink *one bottle* of Marley's Mellow Tea. Crystal opted to try one as well.

I drank half of my bottle and started nodding off. Crystal drank half of her bottle and started nodding off. MOLLY DRANK THE OTHER HALF OF CRYSTAL'S BOTTLE AND NODDED OFF. We all went to bed at some time before 7:30.

At 3am, Molly was SO DEEPLY ASLEEP that she wet the bed for the first time in over 2 years. We all jumped up, changed bedding, scrubbed down, tried to go back to sleep... and then the cat and the dog decided we didn't need to go back to sleep. It was time to BE AWAKE!

So Molly and I went out to the living room in hopes that Crystal could get an extra hour or two of sleep before work.

We took a bath!

We made a big breakfast!

We watched a movie!

We played in the snow!

I fell back asleep!

At 8:25am Molly shook me awake from my chair and said "Dady, c'mon... time for school!" I panicked! I didn't even know if Molly had gotten dressed yet or not, but there she was with her nice long rain coat on and snow boots and she said she put on the clothes that Mommy had laid out for her - AWESOME!

We got to the school just a the bell was ringing. As I was getting Molly out of the minivan, her rain coat lifted up enough for me to see... "MOLLY! YOU'RE NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!!!"

Molly had put on her shirt and her tights, but had refused to put on the skirt that went with it (a battle we have every morning - she HATES skirts). The long rain coat had been a clever ruse! "Molly you can't go to school like this! This is like going to school in your UNDERWEAR! I can't - "

The bell was ringing. The children were running. Molly was straining to go be with her class. I needed to go get to the Library for my volunteer duty...

"Meh. Go. Have fun." I told her. What's the worst that could happen? She's just an eight-inch strand of tulle away from being completely dressed, that's like going out without a *belt*!

And so she went and so I went and later, when I was on my rounds picking up the books from the kindergarten classes, Mrs. Keivit (Molly's teacher) stopped me with a big smile and said not to worry - they went and got a pair of sweat pants from the nurses office for her.

I blame Bob Marley.