Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
This post is all about our son Seb, who is a couple of months short of 4.5 years old.
Last week when I made oatmeal for breakfast, he protested and said, “Mama, I don’t want to eat oatmeal. It looks like poop.”
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A song for your enjoyment. Sung to the tunes of… I have no idea what the official song title is. He was eating apples at the time, and started being silly:
“Apple apple what do you see?
I see a booboo* looking at me.
Booboo booboo what do you see?
I see a poopie** looking at me.
Poopie poopie what do you see?
I see a deedoo* looking at me.
Deedoo deedoo what do you see?
I see a peep looking at me.”
I’m not sure if he knows the actual meaning of peep, or if that’s just a coincidental word that he thinks rhymes. He LOVES rhyming; they have been doing a lot of that at preschool.
Speaking of rhyming… we were in the van (yes I have a van, and I love driving it), when he blurted out “truck… duck… muck… puck…” Luckily he didn’t say the F word.
* He likes to make up silly, funny, nonsense words. Oh may you always find humor in life and be happy.
** The boy is obsessed with potty mouth words, and thinks these types of words are absolutely hilarious. I suppose it is normal for his age?!
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Yesterday:
“Mama, I made a turkey at school! My turkey says gobble gobble!” — 26 month old Fiona, proudly showing me her creation immediately upon arriving home from preschool.
Today:
“We’re going to the grocery store. Who wants to go?” is met with silence.
“We’re going to buy a turkey!” I said with a tone of excitement.
“For meeeeeeee?” Fiona grinned and asked.
I hope she’s as enthused when the turkey is actually cooked and ready to be eaten, coz guess who’s the picky eater around here.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
“World peace can be achieved; be kind. World peace starts with YOU!”
— Author: unknown.
This quote is very simple, yet very powerful.
Be kind to your friends, to your families. More often than not we hurt our loved ones the most, emotionally. We take them for granted, we say things without it really passing our brain, without realizing the what we say might hurt them. We would never say such things to people we aren’t familiar with, so why do we do that to our loved ones?
Be kind to your neighbors, to your colleagues, to workers at establishments you go to, etc. They are there in your life whether you like it or not. So why not make the best of it.
Be kind to strangers in the street, at the mall, at the corner store, anywhere. You don’t know them. They don’t know you. But you never know, they might just become an integral part of your life down the road, whether it be your personal or professional life.
Be kind, pass on a smile. It is contagious. Really it is. Say something nice; say Thanks often. Encourage others by setting good examples yourself.
People don’t have to have the same values as you do in order for you to be kind. Kindness knows no borders, no gender, no race, and no religion. Kindness is simply, kindness.
World peace might not be achieved by such simple measures, but it is a good start. This might just work.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
“The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.”
Well, this is not really a quote per se. It was from an Asian restaurant a while ago (the worst one I’ve ever been to!!!).
I really like living in a smaller city, but the thing that I miss the most is good ethnic food. As you know, I LOVE to eat, so that’s a hard adjustment.
And there’s my disjointed post for today. 
Enjoy.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
— Mark Twain
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As part of my strategy for NaBloPomo, I’m going to do a quote each Tuesday. Sometimes it will be accompanied with a story that inspired the desire to put the quote here. Other times it’ll be a lazy day with just the quote. As always, I invite you to add your own inspirations / thoughts / etc about the quote-of-Tuesday.
