Fun Mom Points
I'm resigned to my reputation as the unfunnest person in the western hemisphere aside from Dick Cheney. Spontaneity assuredly is not my middle name (I used to aspire for "sartorial splendor" as a middle name, but that didn't work out either. What do you think of "better late than never"? Or perhaps simply "klutz".) Still, I try to be a cool mom, but there's always an ulterior motive: I aspire to accrue sufficient "Fun Mom" points to offset my general aura of stick-in-the-mudness.
For example:
Why does any beverage, even water, seem to taste better when sipped through a straw? And what do I care if they use four straws a day?
What's so darned attractive about food coloring? We've had green eggs, purple milk, pink mashed potatoes...
Did you know you really can fry an egg on the sidewalk if it's hot enough? Takes more than three minutes but there's no hurry because you're not going to eat it anyway.
What's so darned cool about paint? When the kids were small enough to shower together I'd give them paintbrushes and bottles of mushy, goopy paint of indeterminate colors, let them paint each other (in the bathroom of course) and then have them wash it all off in the shower.
More than once we put on raincoats and boots and sloshed every puddle in the street.
The lawn guy has a standing order not to plow our rather steep driveway; after all, when else would we be able to use all-wheel drive?
Fascinated by the plastic one-piece chopsticks we'd found at the children's museum, Robey and Cleo insisted on using them that night to eat their dinner, which happened to be pot pie. To this day pot pie requires chopsticks.
I sure hope they're paying attention.
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For example:
Why does any beverage, even water, seem to taste better when sipped through a straw? And what do I care if they use four straws a day?
What's so darned attractive about food coloring? We've had green eggs, purple milk, pink mashed potatoes...
Did you know you really can fry an egg on the sidewalk if it's hot enough? Takes more than three minutes but there's no hurry because you're not going to eat it anyway.
What's so darned cool about paint? When the kids were small enough to shower together I'd give them paintbrushes and bottles of mushy, goopy paint of indeterminate colors, let them paint each other (in the bathroom of course) and then have them wash it all off in the shower.
More than once we put on raincoats and boots and sloshed every puddle in the street.
The lawn guy has a standing order not to plow our rather steep driveway; after all, when else would we be able to use all-wheel drive?
Fascinated by the plastic one-piece chopsticks we'd found at the children's museum, Robey and Cleo insisted on using them that night to eat their dinner, which happened to be pot pie. To this day pot pie requires chopsticks.
I sure hope they're paying attention.
Visit my web site, FeeFiFoto.com, for personalized photo gifts. We will put your photos on almost anything. Put your favorite pictures on personalized photo mugs, personalized photo Christmas ornaments, personalized photo calendars, personalized photo handbags, personalized photo puzzles, personalized photo playing cards and personalized photo jewelry. Check out our new promotion: order up to four personalized photo calendars and we'll ship them for the cost of one.
1 comment:
Pink mashed potatoes.
You are a genius.
PS. I still slosh in puddles even when I don't have my kid with me. No rainboot required.
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