By Alice B. McGinty
Grandma's coming, so the whole family tackles the chore list, until the cat starts rearranging it into nonsense.
It's cleaning day at a busy house with two dads and three children, and there's a magnetic chore list on the fridge: mop the floor, feed the fish, bathe the cat. The trouble is the cat does not want a bath, so he keeps sliding the words around when nobody's looking. Suddenly the family is mopping the baby, feeding the floor, and vacuuming the cat, and the harder they work the more ridiculous it gets, all before Grandma rings the doorbell.
The joke is a machine that keeps running: the more the family fixes the list, the more the cat wrecks it, and children love being in on a trick the grown-ups keep missing. The rhyme gives it a galloping pace that's fun to read fast, and it earns its laughs on the silliness alone. That the family has two dads is just the happy backdrop, never the point, which is exactly why it works as pure comedy first.