FamilyIn between naps tonight (did you think I did anything so quaint as “sleep?"), I extricated myself from between my two youngest and went in search of less close quarters. I wandered into the hall and paused, trying to remember who was where and listening for restless children.
Satisfied, I opened the door to my room, and was surprised to see a bedside lamp on. I started to ask Gil if he was reading, when I suddenly realized that there was no one in the bed. The five of us were distributed between the three children’s beds, and the roomiest bed in the house, a luxurious Eastern king, went begging.
And it looked strangely smug.
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My son was in the same room as me when I was getting dressed one day. I scratched the top of my left breast a little and he said, “Mommy, you are touching your —-!”
I said to him, “I just have an itch,” to which he responded, “That’s *your* excuse!”
Jet, 4
Jax: Mommy, here’s a little piece of toilet paper to wipe the tip.
Mommy: The tip of what?
Jax: Your penis.
Jax, 3
After being told to go outside and pick up the dog poop, he goes outside, whines and complains. He comes back in and says, “Mom, I think the dog over-pooped.”
Luke, 8
When I woke up one morning with a sore throat, raspy voice, and fever, my three-year-old, Emilie, asked me what was wrong. I said, “Mama has a cold…” and she felt my cheek for a minute before saying, “No. You has a hot!”
Emilie, 3
Do you know how I memorized 2 x 11? I have this fake pencil in my brain, and it writes down the multiplication!!
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04.09.04 at 03:40 AM |
ah yes, those king size beds DO look smug when one finds themselves distributed throughout the house..uncanny how they can almost grin..I think they encourage baby making for that purpose alone, a sort of ‘revenge is the dish best served cold’ thing, but then again, I could be reading into things my own bed may or may not be thinking.
04.09.04 at 04:38 AM |
I dibs it!
04.09.04 at 06:34 AM |
Mindy, I hope you were able to take advantage of the emptiness, if only for 15 minutes. I’m holding my head to one side this morning, as my 3 year old (after wetting his bed “I’m a big boy, I don’t want to wear diapers any more”) made his pilgrimage to our bed around 3am. Actually, I can’t remember a day when my didn’t feel pretzelized.
04.09.04 at 06:36 AM |
That would be my body, thank you very much.