Laura, Mason, and I attended a cancer benefit for a family member recently. There were a ton of people there. I was put in charge of collecting money at one of the doors as people came in. Laura was running around taking pictures and helping the organizer keep things running. Where did this leave Mason…without enough supervision.
Since I was tied down to the door I was not able to watch Mason. With Laura running around, she was not able to give her full attention to Mason either. Of course, all the people that we would have asked to baby sit for the night were at the benefit. I was doing my best to keep an eye on Mason but was an increasingly difficult task as the large party room filled up. I had lost track of him for a little bit only to see him emerge from the crowd carrying a plastic cup with about an inch of water in it. Where the heck did he come up with that? Pretty soon, he came with another, then another. I assumed that he was walking around picking them up off the tables.
After he had collected about a dozen cups, I was finally able to see where we was getting them. At the end of the food line, there were two coolers, one with lemonade and the other with water. He apparently had stood at the table watching people fill their cups and decided that he wanted to do that too. He would grab a cup and fill it with water or lemonade, take a small drink and walk back over to me. I would take them away and he would go back over and fill another cup. By the end of the night, he had probably used a couple dozen cups.
Eventually, Laura bribed her niece to watch Mason since we were not able to do so adequately. This worked out pretty good until they went outside. At the edge of the parking lot, there was a large patch of sand. Mason and several other children that were there played for at least an hour filling every pocket with sand and dumping sand in their hair. Lovely. Needless to say, Mason had sand absolutely everywhere, but at least he was keeping out of trouble.
Overall, the benefit was a success. I am not sure the final dollar amount that came in but it will definitely help with some of their medical bills. In addition, Mason learned that he could get his own drinks and able to beg the food servers for little morsels of food. Mason also learned that sand in his rear end is not terribly comfortable
