mind body mama: A few more ways my life has been enriched by motherhood
An observation I might have lived without, if had not become a mother:
• “It’s cool how your stomach goes into all those little wrinkles when you bend over.”
Word usage I might not have considered:
• “I want to walk on the snow to get a hang of these new boots.”
• “We are all wearing different styles, but we are all cool. Mama, you are sensible cool. Mom, you are normal cool. And I am crazy cool!”
• “One of my suggestments for the bathroom is a tiny shelf right here for books and magazines. And a taller toilet. Because Mom likes a taller toilet.”
Questions I might never have asked anyone:
• “Why are your underpants on the dining room chair?”
• “Do you need a klenex? Are you sure you don’t need a klenex? Because you look like a person who needs a klenex.”
Conversations I might not have been party to:
Sweetie: [Preparing for a solo road trip] “I’m taking more money from you.”
[Minor inconsequential parental financial squabbling.]
Me: “…Oh, it’s ok, I don’t want you to be on the road without cash.”
Small: “Yeah, because what if you have a sudden need for Cheetoes?”
Small: “I’m sorry I spilled that.”
Mama: “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with spilling something. There is something wrong with standing still while it runs all over the place.”
Small: “Let’s be optimistic that we can fix this situation.”
And a question I might never have asked myself:
“I heard you and Mom fighting. Why did you say all that crap about her?”
• “It’s cool how your stomach goes into all those little wrinkles when you bend over.”
Word usage I might not have considered:
• “I want to walk on the snow to get a hang of these new boots.”
• “We are all wearing different styles, but we are all cool. Mama, you are sensible cool. Mom, you are normal cool. And I am crazy cool!”
• “One of my suggestments for the bathroom is a tiny shelf right here for books and magazines. And a taller toilet. Because Mom likes a taller toilet.”
Questions I might never have asked anyone:
• “Why are your underpants on the dining room chair?”
• “Do you need a klenex? Are you sure you don’t need a klenex? Because you look like a person who needs a klenex.”
Conversations I might not have been party to:
Sweetie: [Preparing for a solo road trip] “I’m taking more money from you.”
[Minor inconsequential parental financial squabbling.]
Me: “…Oh, it’s ok, I don’t want you to be on the road without cash.”
Small: “Yeah, because what if you have a sudden need for Cheetoes?”
Small: “I’m sorry I spilled that.”
Mama: “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with spilling something. There is something wrong with standing still while it runs all over the place.”
Small: “Let’s be optimistic that we can fix this situation.”
And a question I might never have asked myself:
“I heard you and Mom fighting. Why did you say all that crap about her?”
Labels: conversations, mind body mama
posted by Lynne Marie Wanamaker at
2:47 PM
7 Comments:
But wait ... there'll be more, much, much more!
and which one of you did she pick-up "crap" from?
my personal favorite:
“Why are your underpants on the dining room chair?”
“Let’s be optimistic that we can fix this situation.”
LOVE IT!!!
Words to live by, really. :)
Patti
Love, love, love these snippets. Oh the ways in which our vocabularies expand and coalesce when we become parents!
Today I overheard Big Boy and his best buddy declare that they were "binocularizing" the playroom. (They each had toilet paper tubes over their eyes and were looking for birds out the window.)
These are fantastic! Love them all and trust me, they will become more interesting as Small gets older.
Oh I have so many of these. How about this one, "Dad, you're a rusty bolt."
Love this too--trying so hard to capture this dialogue before their public school education corrects them. My wrinkly skin is referred to as, "that squishy thing." Nice.
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