If your'e like me and approaching 40, you will understand what I mean by having a "senior moment". It's when you start the coffee pot without adding the coffee; or forget where you left your glasses only to discover, after searching for an hour, that they've been on your face the whole time.
Well, similar to the "senior moment" is a phenomenon I like to call "pre-schooler moments", although it can happen to any child up to about age 10. These are purely innocent distortions of a lesson learned or a comment heard. Like when Neva, now in Grade 4, mentions the United States of Ontario. Or how Milo thinks everyone is as knowledgeable about NASCAR as he is and offers to "bump draft" the 2-year-old at the top of the slide to get him moving.
Or, like today, when Willa asked, "Mommy, how do you spell TV?"
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.com
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Will You Be My Friend?
Everyone was bothering me to have a friend over to visit. It started, as always, with my oldest, Neva. "Mommy, can I have a friend over?"
Before I even had a chance to answer, both Milo and Willa were at me, "I want to have a friend over too!"
I had to think fast -- I surely didn't want three extra children in my house?!
"What if I want a friend over?" I asked.
Willa told me flatly, "You don't have any."
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.com
Before I even had a chance to answer, both Milo and Willa were at me, "I want to have a friend over too!"
I had to think fast -- I surely didn't want three extra children in my house?!
"What if I want a friend over?" I asked.
Willa told me flatly, "You don't have any."
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.com
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Fearless ...
This is a big year for us at school. Neva has begun Grade 4, and is no longer in Primary but Junior, something of which she is most proud. Milo is in Grade 1 and attending full days for the first time. And our baby, Willa, started Junior Kindergarten yesterday. What an exciting first day of school we had!
I was completing Willa's student information sheet yesterday. It was mostly standard stuff: how many letters does she know? Can she print her own name? How high can she count? The only one that stumped me momentarily was about fears and dislikes. I don't think she's afraid of anything. We're talking about the little girl who climbs over the railing of the front porch and jumps over the garden into the grass. The little girl who kept wanting to go faster when she went tubing behind the big boat at the cottage -- even when the wake sent her bouncing from her knees onto her tummy. This is the little girl who climbs on top of the monkey bars. And fell off the trapeze bar, giving herself a nasty nose bleed, only to get right back on the next day.
So I asked her, "Willa, is there anything your teacher should know about that you don't like or are afraid of?"
She shook her head and shrugged unconcerned, "No, just monsters."
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.com
I was completing Willa's student information sheet yesterday. It was mostly standard stuff: how many letters does she know? Can she print her own name? How high can she count? The only one that stumped me momentarily was about fears and dislikes. I don't think she's afraid of anything. We're talking about the little girl who climbs over the railing of the front porch and jumps over the garden into the grass. The little girl who kept wanting to go faster when she went tubing behind the big boat at the cottage -- even when the wake sent her bouncing from her knees onto her tummy. This is the little girl who climbs on top of the monkey bars. And fell off the trapeze bar, giving herself a nasty nose bleed, only to get right back on the next day.
So I asked her, "Willa, is there anything your teacher should know about that you don't like or are afraid of?"
She shook her head and shrugged unconcerned, "No, just monsters."
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.com
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