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WHILE L.R. HAS NEVER inhabited an invisible house, sometimes she wishes she did. For then there would never be any need to tidy up. L.R., you see, spends half her life tidying up after her children, who are far too busy creating elaborate stories and crafting amazing inventions and reading books to bother with picking up the soccer socks they accidentally left on the floor. That is not to say, however, that her children do not participate in chores. Every evening at 6:30 p.m. they can be seen washing dishes, cleaning up the living room, wiping the table and counters, taking out the trash and sweeping the floor. (You thought your parents were bad.)
L.R. is the queen of her castle in San Antonio, TX. She lives with her king and her six princes in a home that is not invisible in the slightest, for child friends are always known to ring the doorbell at the most inopportune of times—yet another reason L.R. sometimes wishes her house could simply disappear.