Mar

20

Categories: Children, Home

Notes from here…

Numero Uno –

Son #2 was looking at a calendar. “Mom, do we celebrate ‘Children’s Day?’”

Me: “How would we celebrate? Maybe giving away our children for a day?”

Him: “No! By having no school.”

Numero Dos –

We’re going on vacation to Myrtle Beach (with a day in Charleston) 4/29 – 5/6, yippee! Then A and I will head to Texas on 5/12 and come home 5/21. She’s going to be SUCH a beautiful flower-girl. Which reminds me — Patrick, do you have a coffee-maker?

Numero Tres —

My boys and two of their friends have been building a fort in a yard down the street. Next door to that, one boy’s sister and her friend have been building/creating a club. B came home yesterday and announced that the boys had been helping the girls with their club, and then “we signed a peace treaty.”

I think it would be a great idea if he’d sign such a treaty with his siblings.

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Copyright 2010 by Tammi Mossman.

Mar

12

Categories: Children, Encouragement, Home, Parenting

:~)

I took a nap this afternoon, then awakened in a parallel universe.

Before I slept, I told some grumbling offspring that if they couldn’t keep themselves quiet and amused, there were plenty of jobs that could be done around the house, and I suggested a few. This isn’t an unusual monologue, and I expected the usual results — nothing.

I yawned my way downstairs and discovered that Dolly had folded the bath towels, B had moved chairs, etc. out of the kitchen and partially swept, Z had rinsed dishes and loaded the dishwasher AND taken pity (which is unprecedented) on his tired brother and finished the sweeping. Not only had their father not made them do these things, he had cleared and washed countertops.

I need to stop typing now, and go stare at the kitchen, whose cleaning I didn’t request or direct. Because, somehow, I’ll probably be back in my own world tomorrow.

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Copyright 2010 by Tammi Mossman.