Crazy Eights

I’ve been tagged for this meme by Amanda, so here goes:

8 things I’m passionate about:
My Family
My Faith
Genealogy
My Friends
Playing the piano
Learning
Working hard
Food

8 things I want to do before I die:
Go on a genealogy research trip across Europe
Go on a genealogy research trip across the U.S.
Watch my children grow up
Become a grandma
Live a while but die before my body starts deteriorating too much
Visit the Australia Zoo
See the Kilauea lava flows
Serve an LDS mission with my husband

8 things I say often:
I love you
Don’t!
No!
Stop it!
Honey
What time will you be home?
Fiddlesticks
Hi!

8 books I’ve recently read:
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Voyage of Midnight
Pride and Prejudice
I’d like to eat a Child
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Where the Wild Things Are
Dexter Bexley and the Big Blue Beastie

8 songs I could listen to over and over:
“Side with the seeds” by Wilco
“Tom the Model” by Beth Gibbons
“Do what you have to do” by Sarah McLachlan
“Dreaming my Dreams” by The Cranberries
“On your Wings” by Iron & Wine
“The Way you Look Tonight” -My Best Friend’s Wedding version
“Amarantine” by Enya
“Tell me” by Groove Theory

8 things that attract me to my best friends:
They can laugh at themselves
They are trustworthy
They have no pretenses
They are honest
They are thoughtful of others
They are constant no matter who they are around
They are good listeners
They are good comforters

8 things I’ve learned this past year:
Kindergarten is a wonderful thing
Breastfeeding can be done, even after failing at it before
I can birth a 10 pound 2 ounce baby, vaginally
I have to exercise if I want to fit into my old winter wardrobe soon
I’ve taught myself the basics of beading
Babies grow up way too fast
Sleep deprivation makes for a grumpy momma
No matter how many times I tell my husband to stop throwing his socks on the floor, he’ll never remember not to.

I’m going to leave this as an open tag. Let me know if you play along!

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October 8, 2007 | Filed Under Memes | 5 Comments 

I don’t know! - Yes you do!

When my 5 year old son comes to me with a question, I usually give him one of three answers: “NO!”, “Go ask your father” or “I don’t know”.

He’ll usually accept either of the first two answers well enough, but the third is an answer he doesn’t like at all. It does not satisfy his plea. It says to him, you’ll have to wait a little longer to find out. And the boy does not do well with waiting, for anything. Especially when he knows I must already know what decisive answer I am going to give him. He thinks I’m just withholding it for my own tormentive pleasure.

These conversations usually end like so:

“I don’t know” I say for the fourth time, exasperated
“Yes you do,” Count Dooku insists, then pausing”You know everything!” he finishes with a wink and a grin.

I can’t tell you how many times he’s used that last line and I’ve thought to myself, “If the kid really sees me as being so omniscient, why in the heck doesn’t he obey me more than 10% of the time? Or accept all of the decisive answers I give him?”

Like the time I didn’t know my own friends name.
Me: “Sweetheart, her name is just Melanie.”
Count Dooku: No mom, it’s Watermelanie

Seriously folks. He insisted her name was Watermelanie. He loved watermelon. A lot. Anything with the sound “melon” in it had to be prefaced by “water”, so great was his love for the fruit.

And then of course he won’t watch football with his daddy but he will watch flootball. And don’t try to tell him there is no L in there. You’re wrong. Dead wrong, okay?

Oh, and piggie back rides? There’s no such thing. They’re Monkey rides and they always have been. How that got started I really don’t know (though the term monkey ride is far more accurate), but we think it’s funny.

So, though I don’t know everything, I do know this. My little boy is one smart cookie.
If he realizes that maybe I really don’t know the answer to his question yet, a little flattery (you know everything) might be effective in helping me decide. Too bad for him it only works on his little brother.

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October 8, 2007 | Filed Under Kid Specific | 5 Comments