Conserve Water

Family baths to conserve water? Probably not.

When kingsley woke up this morning, she looked at me, and the first thing she said was, "Is today Thursday?"
I said, "No, it's Wednesday."
She looked happy, "So I don't have to take a bath?"
"I don't know yet," I sleepily replied. I didn't want to make her any promises I would later have to retract since bathing depends greatly on what we do during the day, the foods we eat and, most importantly, occurrence of the last bath.
After having my coffee I thought about my own bathing habits. I shower after working out, and this week I haven't been exercising because I have a cold. I was due for a shower, especially since we were going into the world today for music class, although I'd be welcome at music class if I hadn't bathed in a couple days and dabbled patchouli on my wrists.

I was reading a tweet on water conservation from a woman suggesting people set a timer and take only a three minute shower as a way to conserve water in our very serious drought that isn't getting the public reaction it needs.
The lack of reaction is definitely the result of the media, who keep inundating Californians with shocking images of our changing landscape, leaving feelings of destitute and helplessness, rather than offering suggestions for people to curb their water usage.
I don't take showers longer than three minutes because my kids would probably break lamps or draw on the walls if I ignored them for that long. I am a conservationist through the strict reign of my children, although it is likely outweighed by the amount of dishes I wash, which seems like millions.
Today the kids can skip the bath, although I must take a shower, and it will be two minutes long.
I put on cartoons to hypnotize the kids so they don't realize I'm doing something that doesn't completely revolve around them. In the cartoon one of the character's name is Pussy Cat. Kingsley now calls me Pussy Cat. She sounds like a sexist casino pit boss. It's hilarious, only because she is a 3 year old little girl.

Maybe Californians need water conservation suggestions delivered through funny commercials. Instead of an orange news caster blubbering about how this is the end for farmers, and the tears shed for dying grass are all that will be watering front lawns soon, they could show ads of a 3 year old saying, "Stop taking such long showers, Pussy Cat."
I'm no marketing expert though. I am skeptical people even watch commercials. That seems like a good time to wash dishes or take a shower.

We still have to water the pink cactus, and give it a nice purple hat.