The whine reaches my left ear as read languidly. I smile, a slow dangerous smile. The offending one looks a little nervous. "Only boring people get bored." I reply my pat answer for such rubbish.
"What can I do? And DON'T say clean something again."
Though normally these are fighting words, I've been waiting, longing for these words. Why? Because I want to spend a certain type of time with my kids, and I want it to be their idea.
Take down the Christmas Tree
Scour the toilet
Write Thank You notes
Make bananna bread?
Learn a new skill?
Would any of these work for you?
The day together flies by.
We feed the birds.
They learn to chain stitch
To mend their own clothes
what a fabulous goal for tomorrow - have bored kids . . . really. i get what you say - bored kids make good moms. i hope to have my own bored kids, but then again i dont feel im a good enough mom to find stuff for them to do . . .hopefully ill get better as they come alongf
ReplyDeletegot a latin text for you. It's an unused, very "nice idea" still. I bet you can't see what I see in your wordsmithing skills scince this began. Way skilled. Way better. Way Good. Post idea: how your christmas reading went?
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.