Was there a disturbance in the Time Space Continuum?

Or was it only me????

I have to ask because the other day I had the strangest thing happen, and although I'm not a trekkie, I have seen enough sci-fi movies to come up with some crazy time/space/black hole/stargate theories.  It's either that, or I was abducted by aliens.  I swear.

Anyhow, the day was normal enough, I thought.  I heard the phone ring and I walked from the bedroom to the kitchen to find the cordless phone.

At this point, the kids were in the living room playing with Thomas the train and the track set.

Jeff was on the phone and asked me to measure something.  I walked back down the hallway, grabbed the tape measure, turned and walked back to the kitchen.  Measured the kitchen island, and relayed the measurement.  At this point the kitchen was empty and clean.

I spoke to Jeff for a couple more minutes as I walked down the hallway, and put the tape measure away.  Please bear in mind that we don't live in a gigantic house.  You can walk from the kitchen to the hallway in ten paces.

I hung up with Jeff, set the phone down on the counter in the hallway, and turned back towards the kitchen to have another cup of coffee.

It's at this point I see my children.  Both sitting at the small table we keep in the kitchen .......both covered in finger paint....the table is covered in finger paint....... and the art board is covered in finger paint.

I stood there dumbfounded.
How did this happen???
How could they have possibly had enough time to do this?
How did they get the finger paint out of the cupboard?
There were no chairs moved.
We were home alone.
Or were we?

I scooped them up, put them in the tub and began to ponder how this could have happened in a manner of minutes.  I checked the phone log.  It said the call was 3 minutes and 43 seconds.  Not long.  And there is a view from the hallway into the kitchen.

Hmmmm........

Now let me be very clear.
I wasn't drinking.
I don't take any prescription medicine.
I'm pretty darn sure that I don't suffer from occasional blackouts, or narcolepsy.
And my second personality said she would never let them paint in the clean kitchen.....Just Kidding!

And since I'm sure that I would've noticed two kids finger painting each other as I was measuring the kitchen island, this leads me to believe that something out of this world happened.  Maybe there's a black hole in my hallway that I stepped in and out of.  Or maybe, like my title suggests, it was a disturbance in the time space continuum.  I don't know.   But I was obviously not there for a few minutes.

It was long enough for Katie to paint this:

So, what's the blessing in this you ask?  Well, the blessing is that they decided to play with finger paints and not knives or matches.  That they finger painted themselves and not the entire kitchen.  Oh, and that finger paint is washable!

So, if I go missing, look for me somewhere between my hallway and kitchen.  I'm almost certain there's some weird time warp/black hole thing going on there. Or maybe, just maybe I'm slowly losing my mind.  I guess the last one is the most plausible.

Just another one of life's unexplainable mysteries.

"One bee!...One lousy little bee gets inside and you just lose it!"