Twinkle: On my honor, I will try...

Julep's post about the Boy Scouts got me thinking, as did an incident this morning in which my husband brought in our darling child to say good morning to me in bed (it was my day to sleep late). She was already wearing sandals (because, bless his heart, he dressed her and took her to McDonalds). But anyway I promptly removed the shoes, to the bewilderment of my husband. I don't have to explain to y'all that, while I love nothing more than a good morning snuggle with the bambino, I don't need the dust and grime of the McDonalds-going population all over my sky blue 800-thread-count sheets.

It's my firm belief that boys just do not think about it. It doesn't occur to them that throwing a piece of stale cake away will take 5 seconds and save someone from a much more disgusting job in a few weeks, or that no one wants to spend a Saturday scrubbing the filth of a fast food nation from one's Yves Delorme bedclothes. He actually had to ask why I was removing her shoes; he genuinely did not know.

This and Julep's post prompted me to check out the Girl Scout Law, which reads as follows:

The Girl Scout Law:

I will do my best to be

honest and fair,

friendly and helpful,

considerate and caring,

courageous and strong, and

responsible for what I say and do,

and to

respect myself and others

respect authority, 

use resources wisely,

make he world a better place, and

be a sister to every Girl Scout.

It's certainly no small undertaking, but notice there's nothing in there about cleanliness. We girls don't need to take an oath to stay clean. Boys do, and even when they swear they will, it's one promise they can't keep.